Roswell, New Mexico Shooting

[Godzilla2000]

Considering the location and what it's famous for this is a very odd place for something like this to occur.

http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico...ell/-/9153762/23920714/-/raxgppz/-/index.html

 

[SV Fan]

Considering the location and what it's famous for this is a very odd place for something like this to occur.

http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico...ell/-/9153762/23920714/-/raxgppz/-/index.html

 

[Godzilla2000]

^I just knew this was going to be posted!

 

[Feenix]

A middle school? Really?

This goes beyond the "right" to own guns, it's a fetish now. A sick, twisted, obsession with guns.

 

[SV Fan]

This goes beyond the "right" to own guns, it's a fetish now. A sick, twisted, obsession with guns.

Thankfully nobody died, looking at the little info we got I am guessing it was a student targeting a specific student more then a random mass school shooting

 

[Godzilla2000]

I believe this happened an hour ago so the details have yet to be organized for dissemination. It sounds like there are injuries but no fatalities which I hope will still be the case. It's good they have the gun toting wacko in custody too.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Isn't this literally a weekly thing now? Wasn't it last week two died in a school shooting, and there was another a week before. This is getting ridiculous. I don't want to start up the gun control debate again, as I'm not opposed to people owning guns, but we need stricter rules about getting them as well as not necessarily frequent, but every so many years updates to make sure it the person is still capable of maintaining said weapon.

Also, just putting it out there, I've never owned, let alone fired a gun, so I'm viewing this all from the outside.

 

[Godzilla2000]

Isn't it a sad thing that we're talking about these shootings on a weekly basis? It used to be a horrible, tragic fluke back when I was younger.

 

[Teelie]

Not a weekly thing contrary to the perception. There's a lot more to gun control than allowing/denying people access to guns but neither side will admit as much and think that banning or unrestricting guns will solve everything. It's far more complex but like you said, no need to start a gun control debate.

This might have been student on student, not some "nut job" off to shoot up a school.

 

[Godzilla2000]

When you actually go into a school or any other public place with the intent of shooting someone you are a Nut Job in my book.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Not a weekly thing contrary to the perception. There's a lot more to gun control than allowing/denying people access to guns but neither side will admit as much and think that banning or unrestricting guns will solve everything. It's far more complex but like you said, no need to start a gun control debate.

This might have been student on student, not some "nut job" off to shoot up a school.

Yeah, I don't want to get on the debate again, but while it isn't necessarily a weekly thing in the long run, we have had some sort of school-related shooting every week for the past three weeks now. Whether it hold up, and I pray it doesn't, is to be seen, but I think recently weekly accurately describes it.

 

[Dave McFly]

^I just knew this was going to be posted!

Me too

 

[Anita18]

If Newtown couldn't change anything, nothing will. We just can't let go of our Wild West mindset.

 

[moviedoors]

Considering the location and what it's famous for this is a very odd place for something like this to occur.

I don't follow.

 

[enterthemadness]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/student-shotgun-shoot-students-roswell-mexico/story?id=21526542

A spokesperson for UMC said the boy, who the governor said was 12, is out of surgery and is listed in critical condition. The girl, 13, is also being treated at the hospital and is listed in serious condition, according to the spokesperson. A school staff member suffered a minor injury and declined treatment.

 

[SV Fan]

I don't follow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident

 

[moviedoors]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident

I still don't understand what that old nonsense has to do with anything or why it's worth mentioning in a story about a school shooting.

 

[Sawyer]

I knew, I KNEW this would be the first post in response to the OP as soon as I clicked in.

 

[KevanG]

I still don't understand what that old nonsense has to do with anything or why it's worth mentioning in a story about a school shooting.

Because 99% of the people who hear of the city will automatically think of aliens due to the history of the place.

 

[moviedoors]

Because 99% of the people who hear of the city will automatically think of aliens due to the history of the place.

Sorry don't follow how that makes this an "odd place" for a shooting to happen. Shootings can happen anywhere, including places that have silly histories of UFO conspiracy.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Is it just me or is it sad to see this has become so common place that people aren't even bothering to come post about it. I know it wasn't a huge tragedy like Sandy Hook but it was still a school shooting. Thankfully nobody perished, but you would think a school shooting would get more people up in arms

 

[KevanG]

Like I've said before in other threads, shootings have become so commonplace that they barely register anymore. It's really not a good thing that everyone has become so desensitized to it all.

 

[jacobed]

This has nothing to do with gun laws. Absolutely nothing. The kid was 12. This is all about ridiculously irresponsible parents.