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Fox: Houston Elementary School Shut Down -6 yr old with gun
fox news | 4/19/2011 | fox News

Posted on 04/19/2011 10:23:47 AM PDT by sodpoodle

Breaking - four taken to hospital - six year old dropped gun which fired.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arth; banglist; gun; homeschooling; schooled; schoolshooting
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To: dragnet2

This is my shocked face... :-|


101 posted on 04/19/2011 3:44:05 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: trumandogz
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... More than likely it's not in the Genus/Species Danaus plexippus.
102 posted on 04/19/2011 3:50:16 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Proof that ignorance can kill! Sometimes the innocents!
You pinpointed the root cause of incidents like this.
Have a great evening.


103 posted on 04/19/2011 3:52:53 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: trumandogz

‘How about that kid who killed those children in the Amish school, was he involved in some street gang?’

He was a 32 year old milk truck driver, not a kid.
‘Charles Carl Roberts IV (December 7, 1973 – October 2, 2006) was an American milk truck driver who murdered five Amish girls and injured five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines’ — wiki


104 posted on 04/19/2011 5:04:40 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable -- Daniel Webster)
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To: Revolting cat!

105 posted on 04/19/2011 5:25:03 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

106 posted on 04/19/2011 5:28:41 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: trumandogz
I just find it odd that some here are pointing to the ethnic make up at the school, but when talking about the vast majority of the other school shootings, they don’t discuss the ethnicity or race of the shooter or make implications about their family.

Well, it's not every day ya got *Kindergartners* coming to school with *loaded* guns, resulting in several being wounded.

I mean, what's next, toddlers shooting up the local day care?

107 posted on 04/19/2011 5:44:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: iowamark

“HISD officials didn’t close the school but allowed parents to pick up their children if they chose”

From the top article you linked. How kind of the school to ALLOW parents to pick up their children. That wording bothers me!


108 posted on 04/19/2011 6:20:36 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: wac3rd

I’m close to Hollywood High school and haven’t seen one white kid in 4 years.


109 posted on 04/19/2011 9:52:41 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO)
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To: C210N

A similar scenario here in MA would be if a 6 yo held up his gun finger, then dropped it. The school would go into lockdown, swat teams called in, and authorities would try and figure out what other kids were pointed at by the gun finger to assess potential casualties.


You are nearly prophetic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2707586/posts


110 posted on 04/19/2011 10:00:24 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Bruinator; LongElegantLegs
What we NEED is school control...Backround checks for all prospective students and their families, mandatory school safety certifications to be renewed every year, random home inspections, etc

OK, you establish all those checks, then run them on students, and 98% of them fail every single test. Now what? Can we change the past so that the background check can be fixed? Will we fit students with "better parents" assuming that anyone in this world would be crazy enough to adopt them?

In the past, in societies that were free of social engineering, such kids (and then people) were left alone, to mingle with others like them and live as they can. The remaining 2% did the same, but on their own level. But now a timid, smart kid has to coexist with a violent and possibly somewhat insane kid.

It's much easier to declare a classless society than actually create one. The experience of USSR tells us that it's just not possible, regardless of how much you pour into education and propaganda. Those things are largely defined by our genes, and very few people can overcome their natural instincts.

111 posted on 04/19/2011 10:46:27 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: in the wind

>Put the freakin guns owner in jail for at least a year! Who allows a six year old access to a loaded gun?<

Some people right here do. I said I didn’t think it was such a good idea and was called a nazi troll for my thoughts.


112 posted on 04/19/2011 10:49:31 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Greysard
OK, you establish all those checks, then run them on students, and 98% of them fail every single test. Now what?

Then I guess 2% of them are stable enough to go to taxpayer-funded school. I don't see a problem with that.

Can we change the past so that the background check can be fixed? Will we fit students with "better parents" assuming that anyone in this world would be crazy enough to adopt them?

We accept that not every kid is a good candidate to be thrown into a minimally supervised, government run institution and let their parents sort it out. There are private schools, homeschooling, and information is more available than at anytime in the past. If a kid wants to learn, he will.

113 posted on 04/20/2011 7:34:46 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Use it up, wear it out, make it over or do without.)
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To: Munz

Yes there is little tolerance here when it comes to straying from the path.


114 posted on 04/20/2011 9:44:01 AM PDT by in the wind
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To: Jack Hydrazine

No...When I heard the names of the two students, I knew they were Afro-Americans. I’m not sure, but they loe to gie their children ‘UNIQUE’ names.


115 posted on 04/20/2011 10:30:47 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Wanted a keyboard with a working '\/' key!!)
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To: ExCTCitizen

I didn’t see the names but just reading the demographic data indicated to me that this was a problem with diversity that the Leftists try their best to sanitize from the ears of the public.


116 posted on 04/20/2011 1:43:05 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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