Posted on 12/22/2013 3:03:46 AM PST by Zakeet
Police in southern Colorado say they thwarted a school shooting plot by two teenagers, one of whom idolized mass shooters, just a week after a student opened fire in the halls of a suburban Denver high school.
Police Chief Charles Glorioso said Friday that the department’s school resource officer got a tip Thursday that two boys, ages 15 and 16, planned to carry out the attack at Trinidad High School after winter break.
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Glorioso said investigators learned the 15-year-old had been bullied and had said he idolized the Columbine High School and Colorado theater shooters.
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After reading the article, I am not sure that these students were actually going to do anything. Details in the story are skimpy. They did not even have any weapons. Saying you are going to do something is a lot different from actually doing it. Anyhow, I suppose the police had to take the information seriously. If the students were taking concrete actions, than the arrests were warranted. If they students were just shooting off their mouths, I suppose some sort of counseling and or other corrective action should have been done. You can’t be certain on this until more details are released.
What has happened to my beautiful Trinidad that we went to for Rodeos back in 1951! It is not the same place at all since my dad lived at Branson, later moving to Gladstone, NM.
***The news media is feeding a fringe lunatic segment of society.***
How true. In the olden days, a massacre could occur. The locals would know of it in one day.
The county would know about it in a week.
The entire state would know about it n a month.
The US capitol might know about it in three months, decide not to take action as it would be considered a state problem.
Now, less than five minutes such a thing is broadcast around the world, and those with a personal agenda will trot out pre-made acts to vote into law.
*** If they students were just shooting off their mouths,***
My dad always warned us kids to NEVER SAY YOU WANT TO KILL SOMEONE! If that person suddenly turns up dead YOU would be the first suspect.
Trinidad is a dump.
I know. I’ve spent a couple of years of my life there.
It’s a dump.
There’s some beautiful natural scenery, but the town is a festering dump. It is lock-step unionized, and the unions have gamed the contractor/trades employment situation so badly that no one repairs their real estate because it a) costs too much to have a “licensed contractor” do it, and b) they can’t get it past inspections without having a licensed contractor do it.
The only nice real estate or well-kept houses are pretty much in a three block square under the Trinidad sign on the hill northwest of town. Other than that, nice properties are dotted here and there around town, mostly surrounded by clapped-out, falling-down, ramshackle shacks.
Once you’ve been around enough towns in the American west, you can tell whether you’re in a town that started from an agrarian base or a mining base. The mining towns always look rougher. Matter of fact, most mining towns, even when there is active, economically prosperous mining happening right now, look like crap. Miners don’t give a flying fig whether they live in a slum or not.
In Southern Colorado, it is mostly union mining towns, and they’re a special subset of the run-down armpits that are mining towns.
The school is 64% Hispanic, 54% on free/reduced lunches, has a 3 out of 10 test score rating, and 2 out of 10 for making accademic progress.
http://www.greatschools.org/colorado/trinidad/1481-Trinidad-High-School/
That sums up the mentality of these kids, their parents and the school.
Simple.
The unions killed off the CF&I steel plant in Pueblo.
After that steel plant went downhill, the dipsticks in the entire southern area of CO got onto welfare. Most people don’t know this, but more than one third of the population of Las Animas county is on welfare. They’re mooches. Rather than pick up and move to where there is economic activity, the mooches have stayed in place, breeding more mooches.
The coal mines shut down. The agrarian base has dried up (literally). They have grazed their rangeland down to nothing but sticks and rabbitbrush. The unions have killed off most of the economic activity in the town with their absurd labor rates and institutionalized extortion of homeowners and property managers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
That’s good advice.
It is a beautiful town, but as much as it is, and I hate to say this, you are right. It is a cesspool of violent gangs, primarily Hispanic gangs these days. The wife was a mental health consultant to a facility there and I used to fly in for dinner. I always carried and stayed to main street.
Isn’t Trinidad also the home of a doctor who specializes in lopadickoffome and addadicktome surgery?
Yep. It was right next to her facility. Creepy place. We would see them in town, pre and post op.
Next-door, eh?
Ain’t irony wonderful?
I am sure they came from a fine, tolerant, leftist family too
What the hell is wrong with Colorado? Is it heavily satanic,gay,athiest, feminist or what?
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