The girl in Maryland was determined to be brain dead and her family is taking her off life support. I can't imagine what it's like to have to make that decision about your child, but IMO they're doing the right thing by her.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/maryland-school-shooting-jaelynn-willey/index.html

 

Very sad. BUT when I read, "The girl in Maryland was determined to be brain dead," it sounded like she was being obstinate about it.

 

I thought the same thing.

 

Oh, good.

 

When I looked at this post I went "what?" because it seemed like the standard wording to me, and I really just wrote it off as something I wouldn't understand. Then I was getting up from my desk and happened to glance back over my shoulder and saw the word "determined" stand out like it was in bold, and said, "oh! like she was *Determined* to do something! I get it now! ha ha ha!

It doesn't take much to amuse me

 

Me, too! And I couldn't clarify by putting lol, because it really is awful for them.

 

I had that same thought too!

 

I'm exhausted. I can't even feel pleased that she killed herself.

 

4 injured with no deaths reported [other than the shooter] is the last thing I am hearing.

 

A Pennsylvania school is arming their kids with rocks in case of a school shooting:

"
(CNN)A Pennsylvania school district has a different solution for tackling intruders: rocks.

Buckets full of river stones have been placed in all classrooms at the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, Superintendent David Helsel said.
If students at the rural school district can't evacuate during a shooting, they don't have to sit and wait.
"Protocol has been that students lie down, under desks and basically become passive targets on our classrooms," Helsel said. "We decided to empower our students with tools of self-defense if needed."
In a video posted online, the superintendent said the district decided to bring rocks to the classrooms after staff members took the active shooter response training, ALICE -- alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate.

The training taught them how to barricade doors with desks and chairs, and run away from gunfire. It also encouraged students to throw everything, from pencils to staplers, at potential shooters "rather than wait passively" for them "to attack."
"At one time I just had the idea of river stone. They're the right size for hands, you can throw them very hard and they will create or cause pain, which can distract," Helsel told CNN affiliate WNEP."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/us/pennsylvania-school-students-armed-rocks-trnd/index.html

 

Another murdering headcase.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...m-friend-are-found-dead/ar-AAvFFjv?li=BBnbfcL

 

Another mass shooting, this time at a bar in Southern California.

"At least 12 people were killed, including a sheriff's sergeant, late Wednesday night when a gunman clad in black opened fire during a "college country night" at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., police said."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/massive-police-response-after-reports-of-shooting-at-california-nightclub

 

It's a terrible thing, apparently the man was an ex-Marine with some mental issues. Crazy and trained in combat is a bad situation.

 

You might hear claims that the shooter was middle eastern. He wasn't. He was a former marine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/shooting-california-thousand-oaks.html

 

If you can listen to this father talk about his dead son and not cry with him, there's something wrong with you:

https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1060658800946900993

Or this mother, who's son survived the Las Vegas shooting, only to be killed at a bar close to home on college night:

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1060699717502296064

 

This is the video of the dad I thought I was posting above:

https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/1060727851379388416

 

Man. Oh man. I saw a shorter version last night and tortured myself by watching it a few times. This was worse.