Profound Grief 19 Children, 2 Teachers Dead In Texas School Shooting

[DallasEast]

uh oh

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[Rockport]

It is a tragedy beyond description and part of us dies along with the innocents.

When will we begin to address mental health prior to events like this happening?

Cop out. He had no known mental illness.

 

[SlammedZero]

I just cannot understand it. How anybody could hurt a child. Makes my blood boil and my heart hurt. This punk (I also have more colorful names for him offline) is a waste of oxygen.

 

[Ranching]

Cop out. He had no known mental illness.

No mental illness, just plain evil....I wish he had survived and been sent to a Texas Prison......he would have seen evil, firsthand.

 

[Rockport]

No mental illness, just plain evil....I wish he had survived and been sent to a Texas Prison......he would have seen evil, firsthand.

Make him pound rocks for the rest of his life.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Cop out. He had no known mental illness.

I throw up my hands as far as what is "mental illness?"

I was bullied as a kid... Never wanted to shoot anyone.

Funny how so few with "mental illness" in other countries never pick up a gun.

 

[DallasEast]

I throw up my hands as far as what is "mental illness?"

I was bullied as a kid... Never wanted to shoot anyone.

Funny how so few with "mental illness" in other countries never pick up a gun.

Or any other type of weapon.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

No mental illness, just plain evil....I wish he had survived and been sent to a Texas Prison......he would have seen evil, firsthand.

Yeah, wouldn't be surprised if it comes out that he had psychopathic tendencies.

Those folks are good at "hiding" the desire to commit violence (outside of abusing animals) until it's too late to stop them.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Listened to the Governor of Texas speech...

He seemed to amplify the point that only 21 died before law enforcement was able to stop the situation.

I have trouble accepting that ratio.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Or any other type of weapon.

Quite frankly the whole "mental illness" thing gets a bum-rap...

Someone who thinks they're "Napoleon Bonaparte" isn't a threat to society.

 

[dsturgeon]

I used do live in Uvalde. I hadn't thought about it in awhile, and it is not a good reason to come back in my memory

 

[DallasEast]

I think back to my rural hometown from my childhood whenever mental illness is discussed. My hometown was small but had two full-time mental health clinics open Monday through Friday. The plaques on the clinics' entrances said they had been built during the 1950's.

Even as a child without a full understanding of their necessity, I would pass by them and sometimes ask myself, "Why does this small town need a mental health clinic? And why two?"

One of the clinics had to close in 1981. The other clinic hung on until 1984.

It was only after occasional crazy crap began popping up around town and within the surrounding parish in subsequent years that my question was answered. Nothing on the scale of the Uvalde tragedy has ever happened there yet. Thankfully. However, it would not surprise me if it would eventually happen either. Not one bit. Sad.

 

[triplets_93]

The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas warned in online messages sent minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, sources said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683

 

[CouchCoach]

Cop out. He had no known mental illness.

There weren't signs that were missed?

 

[Rockport]

There weren't signs that were missed?

Don’t know. What signs and how do they prove he was mentally ill?

 

[Creeper]

God bless those little children's souls and kids everywhere. This is an unfathomable tragedy.

 

[rags747]

Police left shooter in school for 60 minutes. It took a Border guard to deliver the kill shot. Will be interesting to see the examination of the police personal who were on the scene. I thought that all schools no longer had general access since the shooting in Fl about 4 years ago.

 

[triplets_93]

Police left shooter in school for 60 minutes. It took a Border guard to deliver the kill shot. Will be interesting to see the examination of the police personal who were on the scene. I thought that all schools no longer had general access since the shooting in Fl about 4 years ago.

https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683

 

[Vanilla2]

Police left shooter in school for 60 minutes. It took a Border guard to deliver the kill shot. Will be interesting to see the examination of the police personal who were on the scene. I thought that all schools no longer had general access since the shooting in Fl about 4 years ago.

Cowards

 

[Vanilla2]

https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683

I was just about to post this tweet. It’s disgusting, but I guess the Supreme Court ruled police can determine when and how they respond no matter what is being damaged. So if a school full of children has no chance I for sure don’t. Too bad there wasn’t one of those good guys with a gun i hear so much about.