Multiple people shot at Iowa high school on the first day after winter break, officials say
Multiple people shot at Iowa high school on the first day after winter break, officials say
The Dallas County Sheriff's Office confirmed there is an active shooter investigation at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa.
Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said that school had not yet started when the shooting began.
“Luckily, so there were very few students and faculty in the building, which I think contributed to a good outcome in that sense,” he said at a news briefing.
Maybe it’s a bad selected quote but using the phrase “good outcome” because only 3 people were shot in a school is insane, to me.
This one won't even make the cut as a mass shooting because not enough people were injured.
Way to go America.
Update: five injured, one killed. It counts as a mass shooting now.
That noob never even went to a firing range to properly train to shoot kids. An embarrassment for the nation, really.
Yeah, but also when you do that you got to get the smaller targets all set up and people always want to small talk about what school you are shooting and why, and someone always ends up bringing up Jews...
I can see why you wouldn't even bother going to the range to practice anymore. Such a hassle.
It's a "good outcome" for the pro-gun community because it's a small school shooting that should be easy to sneak under the rug.
It's obviously a horrific outcome for the victims, students, their families and their teachers, but who gives a fuck about them? The killers dad was the only one profitable to the gun lobby and a font of power for Republicans.
So now it is a "good outcome" if only a few kids get shot. Can America sink even lower? Just watch the daily series "School Shootings", Mo-Fr in your news channel!
I wonder when we are going to have an awkward moment when two school shooters show up at the same time. "Oh you are also here to murder the 6 year olds during nap time?"
"nah I'm here for the 10 year olds, they run faster and make for better sport, anyway happy hunting!"
Police: "Don't worry, we'll wait until y'all are done in there. Our turn's next, though!"
"awkward. One of us is going to have to change dates"
Totally unpreventable. We've tried nothing and we're out of ideas. Investigators looking at motives (like it matters). Suspect had a troubled past, legally bought weapons. #[insert city name] strong. Thoughts and prayers. Like and subscribe. See you at the next one.
Just the unfortunate cost of securing people's right to commit mass murder
If only there were good students with guns this could have been prevented
If only the killer didn't want to kill people.
If only the "responsible gun owner" didn't leave a poorly secured firearm around a child who wanted to kill people.
pointing out the problem with gun violence in america is anti semitic - conservatives, probably
Why bother thinking of a good excuse when the reactionary votes and millions in gun-lobby "donations" will keep coming either way? Just say any old shit until it blows over.
You guys need some new traditions over there.
Took four days, huh?
Don't worry, I'm sure there have been shootings elsewhere in the country that weren't mass shootings within an hour of the New Year
Less than a day, if we only count the days when school is in session.
I wonder when american mass shootings will stop being front page news. Treated more like a car crash or something. minor local news. The US as a country has obviously decided that this is acceptable and i assume it should be treated as such.
As an outsider it’s fucking bizarre to witness.
No, Republican politicians and a minority of voters have decided it's acceptable, and because of our convoluted and poorly designed political system, the rest of us are forced to put up with it.
Indeed. Gun control is actually extremely popular if you just look at polling.
Oh it's already covered in the same breath as the real housewives drama from my SO. It's barely cared about. I don't think anyone actually even feels sad about anymore except for some of the families involved. Just another day in the life of the greatest dream.
Anger has replaced any sense of sadness and people are running out of anger too. Apathy. Self indulgent apathy is all we will have left. And fear that someone might take away their nice things. A country of children parading as adults as children die... How could you not look at it and weep.
I feel like it's barely front page news as it is. Like this is the only thing I'm seeing about this shooting. Last night on TikTok I found out about a shooting at a bar, what's the deadliest shooting in Maine to date. Happened on Oct 25th. I found out about it yesterday. 18 people killed, 13 injured. Still took me that long to see anything about it. Back when the Sandy Hook hooting happened, it was all over in minutes, and we didn't stop hearing about it for months. Now we might not hear about it at all.
For the curious, I looked it up. The reason he had access to a 6th grader to shoot in a High School is that it and the Middle School are really one big building in this case - so while it was a High School, it was also a Middle School.
This article lists a possible motive - years of bullying with the school admin refusing to do anything about it. I never did understand why none of my public schools ever did anything about my bullies. As an adult, if any of them tried it I'd call the police and use pepper spray - both banned actions in my schools.
Calling the police is a banned action??
Principals avoid taking actions that will put their campus in a negative light. They will call the police only when the situation cannot be hidden from the public such as a gun, assault with a weapon, or criminal trespassing. Teachers can only enforce the policies that the admin are willing to enforce. They're also discouraged from pressing charges under that of losing their job.
American schools are prisons first, education centers second.
Schools typically wait until there's already a School Shooter before letting more in!
Easy access to arms WITHOUT rigour, training and monitoring leads to savage atrocities. Some clowns will highlight European countries with a similar gun ownership rate, but then fail to understand why we don't have those same atrocities.
I can save a pro-gun cultist the effort and just fill in this comment chain in advance:
Cultist: "Shall not be infringed"
Sane people: "Well regulated"
Cultist: "Well regulated doesn't mean subjected to regulations like background checks and not hitting your wife, it means well-functioning, like a watch
Sane people: "It's not that either. Your militia has no training or physical fitness standards, may never had to demonstrate safe and competent handling of their weapon and has an open contempt for the chain of command"
Cultist: "No but its a mental health problem"
Sane people: "Okay, sounds like gun owners should be have to undergo a mandatory mental health assessment before buying guns then"
Cultist: "If you try and make me prove I'm not a dangerous extremist I'll kill you".
fail to understand why we don't have those same atrocities.
Training, or perhaps not living in a hopeless shithole?
I don't disagree, but y'all don't own nearly as many guns as Americans. I think you already highlighted why - in most civilized countries you have actually do some work to get a gun and have more legal responsibility than just "oops little Timmy got my gun again, that's not your pacifier big guy I don't know why he likes this thing so much let's put that back over here on the nightstand."
Winter break, school shooting break. Of course both will recommence at the same time over there.
Onion article incoming with headline for the thousandth time
They don't appear to have added one since October.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year, here's your bullet ... CATCH!
Unless they’re apologizing for their failures or resigning in shame, why even include comments from politicians like Grassley and Nunn? They’ve already told us they’re not interested or involved in such matters.
Yes! I LOVE our Well Regulated Militia murdering kids!
-Republicans trying to Save The Children.
"There is simply nothing we can do! Far too busy stopping women getting a dead fetus removed from their body before it kills them! Oh hang on I have to take a call, someone is trying to make sure that kids get food. Not on my watch!"
- Republicans, shortly before explaining how they're "pro-life."