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Apalachee High School: Shooting confirmed at high school, one person in custody

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They JUST went back to school.

SMDH



www.fox5atlanta.com

Apalachee High School shooting victims identified; 14-year-old suspect to be charged with murder

Four people were killed, and nine others were injured in a shooting Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.
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"The Barrow County Sheriff's Office told FOX News around 11:30 a.m. that there was an active shooter situation earlier this morning and multiple law enforcement agencies and emergency responders were dispatched to the school around 10:30 a.m. They also confirmed that one person has been taken into custody."
 
CaughtInThe said:
They JUST went back to school.

SMDH



www.fox5atlanta.com

Apalachee High School shooting victims identified; 14-year-old suspect to be charged with murder

Four people were killed, and nine others were injured in a shooting Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.
www.fox5atlanta.com www.fox5atlanta.com



"The Barrow County Sheriff's Office told FOX News around 11:30 a.m. that there was an active shooter situation earlier this morning and multiple law enforcement agencies and emergency responders were dispatched to the school around 10:30 a.m. They also confirmed that one person has been taken into custody."
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Mine went back August 1 but yeah this is why I am scared every day
 
Glad they have the shooter in custody...best to get what answers we can out of these POS losers. Hoping for the best outcome for those shot.

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Another school shooting

Happening right now, 25 mile east of me. Winder Georgia in Neighboring Barrow county. Wating for more info, but patients are being treated at Piedmont Hospital in Athens, GA. Will follow up when more info becomes available. This happened at Apalachee High School.
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I am watching this right now.

I live on the other side of Atlanta up in Cobb, but there is utter chaos at the moment. Not much details but confirmed shooting, confirmed "multiple casualties," several airlifted down to Grady Hospital (downtown Atlanta but the best trauma center in the state,) one suspect in custody, unknown how many shooters were involved, unknown total numbers on casualties and injured.

Here we go again... more gun violence in our schools, more dead kids.
 
At this point in my life and in my own mind/my own brain, all the people who fight us tooth and nail to not give a single inch on any kind of common sense gun control (periodic re-registration, mental testing, etc) are just as guilty as the people who pull the triggers every single hour.

Again, I'm not even talking about this one particular event because I don't even know the details yet. I'm talking about the hourly shootings. There has to be a better way.

And remember, the most Pro Second Amendment parents send their kids to schools and churches and grocery stores and concerts and parties just like everybody else.

And I have $100,000 that says that more and more of those people are slowly starting to feel the same way I do. Especially the mothers.

And as the most Pro Second Amendment Americans age out and peacefully pass away I wonder what the next generations, the ones who hid under their desks their entire lives, will do. Will things really change?
 
OrphanSlug said:
I am watching this right now.

I live on the other side of Atlanta up in Cobb, but there is utter chaos at the moment. Not much details but confirmed shooting, confirmed "multiple casualties," several airlifted down to Grady Hospital (downtown Atlanta but the best trauma center in the state,) one suspect in custody, unknown how many shooters were involved, unknown total numbers on casualties and injured.

Here we go again... more gun violence in our schools, more dead kids.
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They can get to Grady by chopper pretty quickly too. You’re in Cobb? I’m in Douglas County.
 
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If this is like the shooting where the parents knew their kid was in trouble, but refused to do anything about it -- and may have even enabled it depending on how you read their actions -- the parents should be put on trial.

The biggest problem we have in the school system is lack of being able to read to mental health of any given student. Now, I don't mean like we need to screen everyone, but there are signs. For example, one of the "tells" of a terrorist is a blank stare.

I don't know what the tells are for mentally troubled students, but if we can pick these signs up, we should be able to at least take them aside and ask if they're going through something they need help with. Bullying and other psychological stress appears to be the leading cause of shootings -- say what you will about the influence of media, etc. -- there seems to always be some sort of "reason" for it beyond just "I played a violent video game."

I guess my point here is that there are 1,900 students. Odds are that there aren't enough counselors with mental health training to cover them all. But yet teachers and other students spend an average of, what, 25-30 hours a week with them. The fact that these kids fall through the cracks still astounds me to this day.

Additionally, you'd think we'd have a best practices database or a database of ways to spot troubled teens by now. The fact that we don't have this basic step means we're behind the curve, gun control laws or not.
 
CaughtInThe said:
At this point in my life and in my own mind/my own brain, all the people who fight us tooth and nail to not give a single inch on any kind of common sense gun control (periodic re-registration, mental testing, etc) are just as guilty as the people who pull the triggers every single hour.

Again, I'm not even talking about this one particular event because I don't even know the details yet. I'm talking about the hourly shootings. There has to be a better way.

And remember, the most Pro Second Amendment parents send their kids to schools and churches and grocery stores and concerts and parties just like everybody else.

And I have $100,000 that says that more and more of those people are slowly starting to feel the same way I do. Especially the mothers.

And as the most Pro Second Amendment Americans age out and peacefully pass away I wonder what the next generations, the ones who hid under their desks their entire lives, will do. Will things really change?
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More children in America die from guns than anything else.

All other causes of childhood mortality - disease, accidents etc have substantially declined due to prevention measures.

Now the biggest cause is guns. A seemingly untouchable problem due to political lobbying.
 
Allan said:
More children in America die from guns than anything else.

All other causes of childhood mortality - disease, accidents etc have substantially declined due to prevention measures.

Now the biggest cause is guns. A seemingly untouchable problem due to political lobbying.
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It's disgraceful.
 
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