Remind me never to send my kids to school in Colorado

2006-09-27 13:12:10

#1

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6850|132 and Bush

In case you don't remember Columbine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School

This is breaking news. Different school same state. Is something in the water there?
DENVER (Reuters) - Students were evacuated from a Colorado high school on Wednesday after shots were fired and a gunman who said he had explosives took at least four hostages, police said.

"It is a hostage situation, an adult is holding the hostages, he claims to have explosives," said Lance Clem, spokesman for the Colorado state troopers.

A spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said that a number of shots had been fired inside the school. Jefferson County bomb and SWAT teams were on the scene.

Clem said five people had been taken hostage at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, about 35 miles southwest of Denver, but that one, a young girl, had already been released.

Clem told CNN that the gunman was identified as an adult male, possibly a parent of a student at the school of 460 students.

Bailey is about 30 miles from Littleton, Colorado, which was the scene of a school shooting that shocked the country seven years ago.

On April 20, 1999, two high school students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, killing 13 people and wounding 21 others, before they committed suicide

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&a … chool_dc_4

Last edited by Kmarion (2006-09-27 13:13:36)

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2006-09-27 13:13:43

#2

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6942

REMIDER: Never send ur pups to school in Colorado.

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2006-09-27 13:17:33

#3

LT.Victim: Member; +1,175|6812|British Columbia, Canada

Everywhere you go someones going to go into a school and just start killing people..

You cant hide from it, it happens everywhere..

Canada, US, Europe.. Asia.. etc..

even if you homeschool'd your kids, whats going to stop someone from coming in your house and shooting up the place..

its the way it is.. and it will always be like this.

2006-09-27 13:17:52

#4

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6850|132 and Bush

Superior Mind wrote:
REMIDER: Never send ur pups to school in Colorado.

Reminder:

https://Tampastorm.smugmug.com/photos/98348524-L-0.jpg

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2006-09-27 14:50:18

#5

mafia996630: © 2009 Jeff Minard; +319|7012|d

LT.Victim wrote:
Everywhere you go someones going to go into a school and just start killing people..

You cant hide from it, it happens everywhere..

Canada, US, Europe.. Asia.. etc..

even if you homeschool'd your kids, whats going to stop someone from coming in your house and shooting up the place..

its the way it is.. and it will always be like this.

Even in the UK ? really ?

2006-09-27 15:02:30

#6

ATG: Banned; +5,233|6778|Global Command

No, soon they will outlaw sticks and stones there.

2006-09-27 15:09:58

#7

UON: Junglist Massive; +223|6902

ATG wrote:
No, soon they will outlaw sticks and stones there.

We outlawed handguns because of a horrific school massacre. And school shootings still happen here, because making guns illegal just makes it harder, not impossible. http://www.24dash.com/content/news/view … wsID=10864

2006-09-27 15:15:42

#8

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6850|132 and Bush

A gunman who was holding two girls hostage at a Colorado high school was captured by police who stormed the building where he was barricaded in a classroom, a local television station reported on Wednesday. FYI

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2006-09-27 16:12:40

#9

fadedsteve: GOP Sympathizer; +266|6740|Menlo Park, CA

Kmarion wrote:
A gunman who was holding two girls hostage at a Colorado high school was captured by police who stormed the building where he was barricaded in a classroom, a local television station reported on Wednesday. FYI

More like he's dead!

The girl is critical, and the guy killed himself once SWAT stormed the classroom. . . . The other girl apparently is fine.

2006-09-27 16:15:53

#10

Hurricane: Banned; +1,153|6879|Washington, DC

Hostage down!
*skull and cross bones* Gunman
Counter terrorists win!

2006-09-28 01:04:47

#11

B.Schuss: I'm back, baby... ( sort of ); +664|7090|Cologne, Germany

ExecutionerStyle wrote:
Hostage down!
*skull and cross bones* Gunman
Counter terrorists win!

lolz....as far as I know, he shot the girl in the head, then himself. Heard it on the news this morning. I believe she has died too.

2006-09-28 01:53:59

#12

.:XDR:.PureFodder: Member; +105|7078

Yep, he killed one of his hostages and himself

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5387062.stm

2006-09-28 02:06:49

#13

Gawwad: My way or Haddaway!; +212|6934|Espoo, Finland

mafia996630 wrote:
LT.Victim wrote:
Everywhere you go someones going to go into a school and just start killing people..

You cant hide from it, it happens everywhere..

Canada, US, Europe.. Asia.. etc..

even if you homeschool'd your kids, whats going to stop someone from coming in your house and shooting up the place..

its the way it is.. and it will always be like this.
Even in the UK ? really ?

I could rephrase that a little.

"You can't hide from it, happens everywhere in the USA.."

I haven't heard of stuff like that happening in the Europe ever and I'm 100% sure that that has never happened in Finland and 99% on Sweden.

2006-09-28 02:27:50

#14

Pierre: I hunt criminals down for a living; +68|6924|Belgium

Gawwad wrote:
mafia996630 wrote:
LT.Victim wrote:
Everywhere you go someones going to go into a school and just start killing people..

You cant hide from it, it happens everywhere..

Canada, US, Europe.. Asia.. etc..

even if you homeschool'd your kids, whats going to stop someone from coming in your house and shooting up the place..

its the way it is.. and it will always be like this.
Even in the UK ? really ?
I could rephrase that a little.

"You can't hide from it, happens everywhere in the USA.."

I haven't heard of stuff like that happening in the Europe ever and I'm 100% sure that that has never happened in Finland and 99% on Sweden.

Yes, it did happen in Europe several times, I remember it happened in a school in the UK several years ago. FYI, a few months ago, in Belgium an 18 yo student left school in the morning where he was punished for smoking the night before, took the train to Antwerp all dressed in black wearing a long black raincoat, bought a shotgun and ammunition in a gun shop, and went on a killing spree trough town, killing a 2 yo child and her nanny and wounding another woman until he was shot by police.
His motive: extreme right killing all foreigners (the nanny was a black girl).

2006-09-28 02:44:02

#15

Tas3674: Member; +8|6689|Tasmania, Australia

Down were i live (Tasmania, Australia) we had a man (he was crazy, like proclaimed crazy by doctors) who shot up a touristing area in port Arthur, killed 36 i think, wounding many others, he shot any 1 he saw, he escaped the scene before police got there left in a truck, hunted down a mother and 2 kids who ran in the forest before the police maneged to get him, they took him alive too. It can happen any were, this place is Nealy as south as you can get in our state and in Australia and 1.45 hour away from the closest city. i live in the bush about 30 Min's away from that place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_Massacre

2006-09-28 03:38:57

#16

X3M*Selkie: Member; +13|6826|Belgium

Pierre wrote:
Yes, it did happen in Europe several times, I remember it happened in a school in the UK several years ago. FYI, a few months ago, in Belgium an 18 yo student left school in the morning where he was punished for smoking the night before, took the train to Antwerp all dressed in black wearing a long black raincoat, bought a shotgun and ammunition in a gun shop, and went on a killing spree trough town, killing a 2 yo child and her nanny and wounding another woman until he was shot by police.
His motive: extreme right killing all foreigners (the nanny was a black girl).

More or less correct, It also happened again shortly after, but the police could intercept before harm was done. However, I don't recall that we ever had a raid on a school in Belgium or taking hostage of schoolkids.
Racism, NeoNazi, Freaks, Weirdos...ect you'll find in any ages. Luckily in Europe (Belgium) we have more strickt laws on the possesion of firearms. After the incident you descibed above the laws and regulations on firearm became even more strickt. I don't think that situations like those happened in the US can happen over here (at least I hope not)

2006-09-28 03:54:00

#17

Bubbalo: The Lizzard; +541|6810

LT.Victim wrote:
Canada, US, Europe.. Asia.. etc..

Australia............oh, wait................

2006-09-28 04:28:03

#18

sergeriver: Cowboy from Hell; +1,928|7006|Argentina

LT.Victim wrote:
Everywhere you go someones going to go into a school and just start killing people..

You cant hide from it, it happens everywhere..

Canada, US, Europe.. Asia.. etc..

even if you homeschool'd your kids, whats going to stop someone from coming in your house and shooting up the place..

its the way it is.. and it will always be like this.

The same happened here in Argentina in a city south of Buenos Aires, a guy took his gun to the school and shot several of his classmates. But, it seems that Colorado has an issue with this kind of stuff.

Last edited by sergeriver (2006-09-28 04:28:49)

2006-09-28 04:42:49

#19

aardfrith: Δ > x > ¥; +145|7041

Pierre wrote:
Gawwad wrote:
mafia996630 wrote:

Even in the UK ? really ?
I could rephrase that a little.

"You can't hide from it, happens everywhere in the USA.."

I haven't heard of stuff like that happening in the Europe ever and I'm 100% sure that that has never happened in Finland and 99% on Sweden.
Yes, it did happen in Europe several times, I remember it happened in a school in the UK several years ago. FYI, a few months ago, in Belgium an 18 yo student left school in the morning where he was punished for smoking the night before, took the train to Antwerp all dressed in black wearing a long black raincoat, bought a shotgun and ammunition in a gun shop, and went on a killing spree trough town, killing a 2 yo child and her nanny and wounding another woman until he was shot by police.
His motive: extreme right killing all foreigners (the nanny was a black girl).

The only similar incident in the UK that I can remember was at Dunblane in 1996. That prompted the change in our gun laws.

Perhaps after this and the much-publicised Houston cop shooting, the USA should look at their laws?

2006-09-28 08:10:47

#20

theknuck: It's pronounced Knuck, like in Knuckle!!; +45|6861|balls

too bad the coward killed an innocent girl before he took his own nothing of a life. coward, weak, monster...........wow, just what i want to be remembered as.

2006-09-28 20:54:05

#21

AlbertWesker[RE]: Not Human Anymore; +144|6893|Seattle, WA

And just think what would've happened if teachers would be allowed to carry concealed pistols at school........this guy COULD have been shot before he did any damage. Too bad we're focusing on the guns and not the criminals. O well.

2006-09-28 20:58:28

#22

AlbertWesker[RE]: Not Human Anymore; +144|6893|Seattle, WA

aardfrith wrote:
The only similar incident in the UK that I can remember was at Dunblane in 1996. That prompted the change in our gun laws.

Perhaps after this and the much-publicised Houston cop shooting, the USA should look at their laws?

Yeah and how is your murder rate doing, and your violent crime rate doing??? Can't blame guns my friend.......Gun ownership in America is at AN ALL TIME HIGH, yet the crime rate, including violent crime, is at a 30 yr low (as of 2005 stats). According to the FBI. Guns are the problem? I think not, criminals are the problem and RESTRICTIVE laws on firearms create a society unable to defend itself, like I said, if those teachers had been packing, they would have had a BETTER chance to stop the violence.

2006-09-28 20:59:32

#23

AlbertWesker[RE]: Not Human Anymore; +144|6893|Seattle, WA

ExecutionerStyle wrote:
Hostage down!
*skull and cross bones* Gunman
Counter terrorists win!

Not funny. Not funny at all. This is not a game, a girl died that day, her name was Emily Keyes. Respect PLEASE.

2006-09-28 20:59:33

#24

Masques: Black Panzer Party; +184|6971|Eastern PA

Happened in Germany a few years back. Expelled student kills 18 at his school.

2006-09-28 21:02:52

#25

AlbertWesker[RE]: Not Human Anymore; +144|6893|Seattle, WA

Gawwad wrote:
I haven't heard of stuff like that happening in the Europe ever and I'm 100% sure that that has never happened in Finland and 99% on Sweden.

Yeah it does happen in Europe, but as for Finland

NCPA.org wrote:
Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates.

Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings.

Hmm interesting how guns reduce crime, No it can't be, say it aint so.

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