This basically proves my point, that nobody goes and shoots people for no reason. This sounds like Columbine all over again:
(CNN) — A 16-year-old student who blasted a California high school classroom with a shotgun Thursday was targeting two classmates because he felt he’d been bullied, the local sheriff said Thursday night.
One student was hit and was in critical but stable condition Thursday night, and the shooter was in custody after a teacher and the school’s campus supervisor talked him into putting his shotgun down.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he did not know whether bullying had actually occurred between the Taft Union High School students.
“But certainly he (the shooter) believed that the two people he had targeted had bullied him,” Youngblood said at an evening news conference in Taft, about 30 miles from Bakersfield.
The young shooter was still being interrogated Thursday evening, Youngblood said, adding that the youth will be charged as a juvenile with attempted murder. It will be up to prosecutors to decide whether he should be charged as an adult, the sheriff said.
via California sheriff: Youth who shot classmate felt he’d been bullied – CNN.com.
As someone who was bullied when I was a kid, I can tell you now; if I had been able to get an assault rifle, when I was kid, that there would be some dead people that used to attend Grace Christian School in Detroit and Grace Assembly of God in Detroit; both are now defunct by the way. (big shock there… NOT!) I do not justify or support this kids actions; but I totally understand it and can see why he did it.
Cue Chris Rock: