BREAKING: Shooting reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote] A shooting has been reported at a high school in St. Mary's County, Maryland, according to St. Mary's County Public Schools. Officials say the situation has been contained, however the school remains on lockdown. St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office are asking parents to stay away from Great Mills High School. They should report to Leonardtown High School. Students will be taken there. Leonardtown High School said they are aware of the situation and students are safe. [/quote] https://twitter.com/firstsheriff/status/976075399372394496 https://twitter.com/SmokeShowing911/status/976073110326730753 https://twitter.com/itsLEXXX_/status/976072369902059520 wusa9.com | Shooting reported at HS in St. Mary's County, school.. Here we fucking go again.

Now there will be 30 pages of Pro and Anti gun discussions where each side will fling same shit arguments at each other and that will be the end of it until it happens again.

Christ another one? I bet it'll just get blamed on video games again rather than America's fucked gun laws and the shithead who's in the oval office

https://www.facebook.com/WUSA9/videos/10157319730434778/?notif_id=1521551732821433&notif_t=live_video_share Here's a live feed of the ongoing situation, I hope nobody was hurt or worse.

Thread exists: https://forum.facepunch.com/f/sh/bsljp/Shooting-at-Great-Mills-High-School-in-Maryland-school-confirms/1/#unseen

Personally i like blaming the media's indulgent coverage for giving people an obvious outlet for when they want to create a tragedy with a lot of attention. Normal coverage is fine but if you ever turn on a television in you US and flip to a news channel you'll know what i mean, they really milk these events for all they're worth and in doing so encourage it to happen again.

It's gotten to a point where I no longer feel just shock, I find myself rolling my eyes and going "fucking again?". The bullshit throwaway "thoughts and prayers"-catchphrase of these events will continue to be tossed around, but nothing will actually get done to prevent this shit. The cycle continues.

Here we go again. And yet nothing will change.

Seriously, imagine being at the end of your rope for one reason or another, and you turn on the tv every day to see these people's whole lives dissected and analyzed for weeks on end as they put recordings of the "highlight" of their life on repeat.

Late by three minutes, but the other thread has one source and no convo, so makes more sense to keep this one.

There's more to it than this. There's something wrong in the minds of these people outside of just being "outcasts". People can be at "the end of their rope" and not commit a mass shooting, in fact I'd say that accounts for the majority of the end-of-rope people.

Just coming in that three people are injured, no fatalities reported so far.

No matter how many times you shitpost about it, its not anywhere that simple.

Will this be enough to wake people up and realise it's not videogames? You'd think after one happened, another one following right after would be enough for people to open their eyes.

We just had like two video game related incidents pop up in the headlines recently. If anything they're gonna be even more under fire.

Consider the following: American crime rates overall have been decreasing since 1990 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States). Definitions of "mass shooting" vary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States) but overall mostly agree that mass shootings are a very recent development, "In recent years, the number of public mass shootings has increased substantially, although there has been an approximately 50% decrease in firearm homicides in the nation overall since 1993. The decrease in firearm homicides has been attributed to better policing, a better economy and environmental factors such as the removal of lead from gasoline.[21] However, this does not account for an increase in firearm injuries or suicides, nor explain the increase in mass shootings." Guns per household have been on the decline since 1973 (http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun%20Ownership_US_1972-2014.pdf) What I'm trying to say is that gun availability is probably not the sole issue. A factor? Maybe. But if mass shootings are an extremely recent trend, maybe we should look for answers somewhere other than something that was readily available since the 1950s.

On another note, the Congressman just said on the phone-interview that he's "heard this is a boyfriend-girlfriend dispute".

Maybe because "take the guns" isn't feasible? The Australian NFA reduced ownership by 20% (from 17.5 guns per 100 people to 13.7 guns per 100 people) and is far less "gun-crazy" than the US, and which at this point has at least as many guns as people iirc? Even if you dispatched roving police squads to disarm the people at large, it'd take decades to see any sort of meaningful drop.

It was less a reply directed towards you and more of a preemptive reply in general.

I don't think gun laws are necessarily the issue in this particular instance, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Maryland have some of the strictest laws about guns in the country? We know literally nothing at this point.

First point: Yup. Apathy abounds, and mis-information floods social media, as always. Second point: And even then there are plenty of 2A supporters that are against anything even remotely close to that for some tinfoin-lined reason I can't comprehend.

Pretty sure that's illegal anyway. Though I guess if you're going to commit a shooting, you don't really care about the law to begin with, so no gun control measures are going to matter regardless of what state you live in.

i go to a school near great mills multiple buses were coming in as i was leaving, though they thought the tech center was the school

So one stable, one critical and shooter is dead.

Shooter dead. Killed by armed resource officer who was guarding school. Only 2 injuries.

Any news if it was an adult or a student?

So if the onsite resource officer is the one who stopped the shooter, is this going to add reinforcement to Trump's idea of arming school staff? Regardless, I'm glad to hear the shooter was stopped quickly and with (hopefully) no loss of life minus the shooter himself

On sight resource officer whose job is to protect the school in the first place is not a teacher that Trump wants armed.

That isn't "Trump's idea", it's been around for a long time. Not having to wait for a police response would indeed be one benefit of staff being armed. In this case an armed police officer was already on scene.

Not doing anything by keeping everything as it is isn't helping.