A True Hero

[Ranched]

A beloved football coach who witnesses said shielded students as a gunman opened fire inside a Parkland, Fla., high school Wednesday, is the first of 17 fatalities to be identified. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School football team’s Twitter account confirmed Aaron Feis’ death early Thursday morning.

“It is with Great sadness that our Football Family has learned about the death of Aaron Feis,” the tweet read. “He was our Assistant Football Coach and security guard.

He selflessly shielded students from the shooter when he was shot. He died a hero and he will forever be in our hearts and memories”

Such tragedy. R.I.P Coach Feis along with the children you tried so hard to save.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/1...een-shielding-students-from-gunfire-dies.html

 

[Runwildboys]

A beloved football coach who witnesses said shielded students as a gunman opened fire inside a Parkland, Fla., high school Wednesday, is the first of 17 fatalities to be identified. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School football team’s Twitter account confirmed Aaron Feis’ death early Thursday morning.

“It is with Great sadness that our Football Family has learned about the death of Aaron Feis,” the tweet read. “He was our Assistant Football Coach and security guard.

He selflessly shielded students from the shooter when he was shot. He died a hero and he will forever be in our hearts and memories”

Such tragedy. R.I.P Coach Feis along with the children you tried so hard to save.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/1...een-shielding-students-from-gunfire-dies.html

While his family is obviously grieving right now, they have much to be proud of.

 

[Ranched]

While his family is obviously grieving right now, they have much to be proud of.

Ugh....so true.

 

[GMO415]

RIP Coach and to the other victims. When are we going to have armed guards at school?

 

[CouchCoach]

The helplessness and sadness of such a tragedy is beyond my scope of understanding. And the saddest part is that this will not be the last one. Too many disconnected souls out there and not enough being done about mental illness.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Every High School needs metal detectors as they enter the school. Gun violence isn't gonna stop anytime soon.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Do NOT turn this thread into a political thread or a gun rights / gun control thread.
If you do, you get benched with no further warnings.

 

[Runwildboys]

RIP Coach and to the other victims. When are we going to have armed guards at school?

Thing is, I don't think most of these schools are in places where you would ever expect something like this to happen. I'm very familiar with the Sandy Hook area, and had you mentioned hiring armed guards for that school before the shooting, people would have laughed at you.
I think most parents are more concerned with subjecting their children to the sight of armed guards than the possibility of a psycho shooting up the school.

 

[Denim Chicken]

 

[CouchCoach]

Thing is, I don't think most of these schools are in places where you would ever expect something like this to happen. I'm very familiar with the Sandy Hook area, and had you mentioned hiring armed guards for that school before the shooting, people would have laughed at you.
I think most parents are more concerned with subjecting their children to the sight of armed guards than the possibility of a psycho shooting up the school.

Unfortunately, the unthinkable has become all too common. No one could comprehend blowing up a church until it happened. No one could comprehend a parent murdering their own child....or any child. These too often occurring horrors are conditioning us too easily. They are becoming a part of everyday life. At some point, this begins to look normal. Anger rises, anger falls, nothing happens and life goes on.

I can remember growing up in Little Rock and if there was a murder, the whole town talked about it for weeks. Now, there's no time to spend on just one unless you know the victim. Or it's some celebrity, you know, someone "Important".

Sandy Hook had a more devastating impact on me than 911. I could not sleep and could not take my mind off it. My eyes were seeing it but my brain could not accept what my eyes were seeing. I would wake up the next morning hoping it was all a bad dream only to have to accept it all over again.

 

[Juggernaut]

When are we going to have armed guards at school?

 

[Vomit]

Every High School needs metal detectors as they enter the school. Gun violence isn't gonna stop anytime soon.

Agreed.

 

[Cowboys_22]

RIP Hero

 

[nightrain]

Rest easy sweet Seventeen. It wasn't your time, but glory awaits you.

 

[nightrain]

That is beautiful.

 

[GMO415]

Thing is, I don't think most of these schools are in places where you would ever expect something like this to happen. I'm very familiar with the Sandy Hook area, and had you mentioned hiring armed guards for that school before the shooting, people would have laughed at you.
I think most parents are more concerned with subjecting their children to the sight of armed guards than the possibility of a psycho shooting up the school.

Guns have a LOT OF ENERGY around them. Thee only way to stop a school shooter is to KILL them. Let me repeat that...KILL THEM. It's comments sense.

 

[Runwildboys]

Guns have a LOT OF ENERGY around them. Thee only way to stop a school shooter is to KILL them. Let me repeat that...KILL THEM. It's comments sense.

Or get them psychological help before they snap..........but nobody ever catches them when they're torturing animals.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Guns have a LOT OF ENERGY around them. Thee only way to stop a school shooter is to KILL them. Let me repeat that...KILL THEM. It's comments sense.

....to have metal detectors, security guards at every entrance. It's common sense.

 

[nobody]

Simply put, mental health positions in school districts nation-wide are underfunded and understaffed. Teenage years are tough for a lot of people to go through and a few councilors per couple thousand students just isn't going to do the trick.
Putting more funding, mental health professionals, and occasional mandatory meetings of every students just to check to make sure things are copacetic would help a lot and prevent a lot from slipping through the cracks, as it were.

Would it solve everything? No. But when you group that many people together in such a small place for a length of time, it increases the stress of the entire whole. Look at people's behaviors in big cities as opposed to rural areas.

(I think I did a good job of keeping any kind of politics out of that and offered a viable option that would greatly reduce the chances of this happening more.)

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

Every High School needs metal detectors as they enter the school. Gun violence isn't gonna stop anytime soon.

....to have metal detectors, security guards at every entrance. It's common sense.

. . .and limited access. I can't get in most doors where I work (a hospital) without swiping a badge and the badge doesn't work everywhere. Plenty of options that are ignored.