December 16, 2012

Sandy Hook shooting - a three-fer

First -- from the Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa World:
Bartlesville High School student arrested in school-shooting plot
An 18-year-old Bartlesville High School student was arrested early Friday after police uncovered an alleged school-shooting massacre plot.

Sammie Eaglebear Chavez attempted to recruit students in the school cafeteria on Wednesday to help him carry out a massive school shooting and bombing plot, police allege in a court affidavit.

Prosecutors charged Chavez later Friday with planning, attempting or conspiring to perform an act of violence. District Judge Curtis DeLapp set Chavez�s bail at $1 million.
More:
Police were notified of the plot Thursday afternoon by school administrators who had been told of the alleged plan by another student, the affidavit states. Chavez had told the students he would place bombs by the auditorium doors and that when police arrived, he would detonate them.

As police conducted their investigation, officers learned that Chavez had told a teacher last week that he�d bought a Colt .45 gun and had spent the weekend shooting it, the affidavit says.

Chavez, who had been attempting to obtain a map or diagram of the high school facilities, had been using a school computer to search for information on a Marlin Model 99M � a .22-caliber rifle on a machine gun platform, the affidavit states.

Students had witnessed Chavez researching the Columbine High School massacre and reading online letters that were written in the aftermath of the April 1999 shooting, which killed 12 students and a teacher in Littleton, Colo, as well as the two shooters. A student also had witnessed Chavez looking at a website on how to build pipe bombs, the affidavit states.
And of course Chavez is just going to get a slap on the wrist as he hasn't "done anything" yet. Second, from The Anarchist Soccer Mom:
Thinking the Unthinkable
In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it�s easy to talk about guns. But it�s time to talk about mental illness.

Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.

�I can wear these pants,� he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes swallowing the blue irises.

�They are navy blue,� I told him. �Your school�s dress code says black or khaki pants only.�

�They told me I could wear these,� he insisted. �You�re a stupid bitch. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!�

�You can�t wear whatever pants you want to,� I said, my tone affable, reasonable. �And you definitely cannot call me a stupid bitch. You�re grounded from electronics for the rest of the day. Now get in the car, and I will take you to school.�

I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.

A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan�they ran to the car and locked the doors before I even asked them to. I managed to get the knife from Michael, then methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me. Through it all, he continued to scream insults at me and threaten to kill or hurt me.

That conflict ended with three burly police officers and a paramedic wrestling my son onto a gurney for an expensive ambulance ride to the local emergency room. The mental hospital didn�t have any beds that day, and Michael calmed down nicely in the ER, so they sent us home with a prescription for Zyprexa and a follow-up visit with a local pediatric psychiatrist.
The rest of the story is chilling -- there is no mechanism to properly deal with these people. There used to be but the Democrats took it away. Finally -- this made my gorge rise. From the London Daily Mail:
Outrage as Westboro Baptist plans praise gathering outside Sandy Hook Elementary school to celebrate God 'executing his judgement' in horrific shooting rampage that killed 20 children and 6 adults
The tight-knit community of Newtown, Connecticut is numb in the aftermath of the heart-wrenching massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary school on Friday when a gunman killed 20 young students, all aged six and seven, in addition to six adults.

As families mourn the lives that were cut short in this unspeakable horror, an extremist group has announced they plan to congregate at the scene of the tragedy and offer praise to God for 'executing his judgement' - an unthinkable act amidst the sorrow overwhelming the quiet town.

A member from the Westboro Baptist Church, an unaffiliated religious group that self-identifies as a church, said on Saturday the group will picket the school in a so-called praise service, while the rest of the nation struggles to move forward after the tragedy.
I would see nothing wrong with some of the parents delivering a righteous beat-down on those a**holes. They need to be put in their place, not just ignored. Of course, they would turn around and litigate and this is just what they want -- more publicity. Ignore the trolls... Posted by DaveH at December 16, 2012 4:44 PM