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WTF?
Interesting update on this, apparently an armed officer disarmed and detained the suspect.
Link
Atlanta School Shooting Update: Armed officer working at middle school disarmed suspect, says chief - Crimesider - CBS News
From the initial news reports, and they are sketchy, it probably was a normal angry gang member doing what those guys do - shoot because someone "dissed me."
Blasphemy! That's a gun free zone!
So not an attempt to shoot up the school (but the mainstream media was hot on it as such).The preliminary investigation indicates that the shooting was the result of a previous disagreement between the students involved, Campos said.
Security officers would be great to have but are not a panacea. They need to be supplemented by teachers and administrators having the ability to carry concealed.Parent April Hood said parents received a text message from APS at 3 p.m. saying a student had been shot and a teacher had been hurt. Hood is the parent of an eighth grader.
"I'm worried about my baby," said Hood. "I think they need to have more security at the school. This is ridiculous."
As noted, the mainstream media whips things up and plays it up so that it seems worse than it is.Thursday's shooting brought to mind the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which sparked a national discussion about school safety and gun control.
But while the details are vastly different — one injured student at Price; 26 dead at Sandy Hook — questions and frustrated bewilderment link the two.
How could this happen? What can be done to keep it from happening again? The questions raised Thursday were nagging, angry and urgent.
"Maybe we can wake up," Clark said. "This will show what's happening to our kids."
However, despite the perception that juvenile crime is spiraling out of control, federal statistics show the opposite is true. Violent crime rates for juveniles between the ages of 10 and 17 fell to a 30-year low in 2010 and were 55 percent below the peak level of 1994, according to the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.