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Not News: Consecutive days of school shootings

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At least one person was killed in a shooting at a high school in Marshall County, Kentucky and the alleged shooter has been taken into custody.

Officials said at least nine other people were wounded in the shooting at Marshall County High School in Benton Tuesday morning. Benton is about 120 miles northwest of Nashville.

A Marshall County deputy apprehended the shooter, according to Kentucky State Police.
Emergency crews respond to Marshall County High School after a fatal school shooting Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Benton, Ky. Authorities said a shooting suspect was in custody.

News 2 has learned at least two 16-years-olds, a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old were all injured. At least one of the victims suffered a gunshot wound to the face.
On the political side of things, this is getting very little coverage on a national basis. Is it not enough to knock Trump off the news cycle? Are we over these events as a nation?

At the bottom of the Kentucky story is a story from Monday (Texas) that I hadn't heard about, had you?
A 15-year-old student in Texas was injured in a shooting in her high school cafeteria Monday morning and a 16-year-old boy, also a student at the school, was taken into custody, sheriff’s officials said.

The girl was airlifted to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas following the shooting in the town of Italy, some 45 miles (70 kilometers) south of Dallas, said Sgt. Joe Fitzgerald of the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office. Fitzgerald said he did not know how many students were in the cafeteria at Italy High School when the shooting happened at about 7:50 a.m.

Lee Joffre, superintendent of the Italy Independent School District, which has about 600 students, said the shooter left the building immediately after opening fire. Sheriff’s officials say the boy was found and taken into custody without incident.
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Maybe if they put up some "No Guns Allowed" signs or made a law about shooting people.....

The media knows there is no chance of new gun control laws due being passed, so they'll just keep these in their back pocket as ammo for when there is another mass school shooting.
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What often goes unnoticed in the wake of such shootings is an enduring, quiet truth, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University: "Schools are safe. They’ve been safe for a long time. They remain safe."

Though the odds of any child being the victim of a school shooting are extremely long, he said, the only way to truly prevent your child from such an attack "is to home-school your kid."

The truth of the matter, he said, is that for many kids, school is "the safest place for them, because they have structure." Their neighborhood — even their home — may well be a violent, uncertain or unsafe place. For many students, school offers a respite, not a threat.
There's an devastating indictment of America's urban areas.
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bignflnut wrote:There's an devastating indictment of America's urban areas.
I’ve heard it said that the problem with violence in urban schools isn’t because they are no gun zones but rather it’s a failure to acknowledge “privilege”.
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