Poll of the Day > Another day, another school shooting.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/18/612286146/shooting-reported-at-high-school-near-houston

Updated at 10:38 a.m. ET

A shooting was reported at a high school near Houston on Friday morning, with local media reporting that a gunman entered Santa Fe High School and began firing. The school was put on lockdown, but the situation is now "contained," officials say. Several witnesses said the attacker was armed with a shotgun.

The Santa Fe Independent School District issued an update stating:

"This morning an incident occurred at the high school involving an active shooter. The situation is active, but has been contained. There have been confirmed injuries. Details will be released as we receive updated information. Law enforcement will continue to secure the building and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location. All other campuses are operating under their regular schedules."

The shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, reportedly began before 8 a.m. local time. It's not yet clear what the status of the gunman is. Several ambulances and Life Flight medevac helicopters were called to the school.

Citing a parent who was at the school, local TV ABC 13 reported that a number of ambulances left the school carrying wounded people.

A student at the school told the station she had been sitting in art class when someone entered with a gun and began firing. The student said she fled and that she saw a student who had been wounded in the leg.

Another student named Paige told the station that she was in a classroom a few doors down from where the shooting started.

"I heard really loud booms, and I didn't know what they were at first," she said, adding that she realized what the sounds were after she heard students screaming.

Paige said she and others took shelter in an area behind a stage, after being told to wait before trying to leave immediately. The student said that she and others had trouble staying calm but that there was not a moment when she felt like what happened wasn't real.

"It's been happening everywhere," Paige said. "I always felt like eventually it would happen here. I wasn't surprised, I was just scared."

Officers from the Galveston County Sheriff's Office and the nearby Harris County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene; so did agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

As they exited the school, students left behind their backpacks to be checked by police, and then filed onto a nearby grassy area alongside row of school buses. Images from the scene showed that some students were then searched by officers.

The same school was the site of a false alarm about a shooting back in February. In that case, students and teachers reported hearing "popping sounds" outside, as Houston Public Media reported.

This is a breaking news story. As often happens in situations like these, some information reported early may turn out to be inaccurate. We'll move quickly to correct the record and we'll only point to the best information we have at the time.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/997493407097524224?s=20

Life is cheap.
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Smh
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But do people care about this as much as they are outraged about the new Gamefaqs changes?
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8 Dead. Suspect is in custody.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/18/612286146/shooting-reported-at-high-school-near-houston

Updated at 12:25 p.m. ET

"There are multiple fatalities that have been confirmed," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said, of a shooting at Santa Fe High School near Houston on Friday morning.

The sheriff added, "The number varies, but it could be anywhere between 8 to 10 fatalities at the school, including students and some adult staff as well."

A suspect is in custody, and "a second one detained" for questioning, Gonzalez said earlier. The suspect is described as a current student at the school.

Around noon, news of another potential threat emerged. The Santa Fe Independent School District announced, "Possible explosive devices have been located at the school and off campus."

Police are "in the process of rendering them safe," the district said, adding that the school was evacuated.

The shooting reportedly began before 8 a.m. local time, putting the school on lockdown and sending police rushing to the scene. Several witnesses have said the attacker was armed with a shotgun.

After announcing news of the shooting, the school district issued an update stating:

"This morning an incident occurred at the high school involving an active shooter. The situation is active, but has been contained. There have been confirmed injuries. Details will be released as we receive updated information. Law enforcement will continue to secure the building and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location. All other campuses are operating under their regular schedules."

Several ambulances and Life Flight medevac helicopters were called to the location, and a stream of them were reportedly seen leaving.

Gonzalez said that one officer of the Santa Fe Independent School District Police Department was injured and is being treated at a hospital. He did not have details about that officer's condition.

The University of Texas Medical Branch said it received three patients two adults and one person under 18 years old from the shooting. One of those patients, a middle-aged man with a chest wound, is in critical condition, according to Raul Reyes, the hospital's director of media relations. The other two people had been shot in the leg, he said.

A student at the school told local TV station ABC 13 that she had been sitting in art class when someone entered with a gun and began firing. The student said that she fled and that she saw a student who had been wounded in the leg.

Another student, named Paige, told the station that she was in a classroom a few doors down from where the shooting started.

"I heard really loud booms, and I didn't know what they were at first," she said, saying she realized what the sounds were after she heard students screaming.

Paige said she and others took shelter in an area behind a stage after being told to wait before trying to leave immediately. The student said that she and others had trouble staying calm but that there was not a moment when she felt like what was happening wasn't real.

"It's been happening everywhere," Paige said. "I always felt like eventually it would happen here. I wasn't surprised, I was just scared."

As they exited the school, students left behind their backpacks to be checked by police and then filed onto a nearby grassy area alongside row of school buses. Images from the scene showed some students being searched by officers.

The same school was the site of a false alarm about a shooting back in February. In that case, students and teachers reported hearing "popping sounds" outside, as Houston Public Media reported.

How long until David Hogg shows up and says he saw the entire thing?
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Maybe the problem has less to do with guns and more to do with public education.
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BADoglick posted...

Maybe the problem has less to do with guns and more to do with public education.

Publicizing stuff like this isn't helping.
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And nothing more than thoughts and prayers from Trump and Republicans until the next shooting.
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TyVulpine posted...

And nothing more than thoughts and prayers from Trump and Republicans until the next shooting.

Look, just stay out of my assault weapons cabinet and well get along just fine.
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We're going to have an entire generation of children growing up with ptsd at this rate.
I think if anyone is anti gun and anti school shooting, they owe it to their kids to leave the country. There's no hope for America anymore. This problem will never be solved.
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If we'd just ban schools, the school shootings would stop
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SmokeMassTree posted...

How long until David Hogg shows up and says he saw the entire thing?

Fuck off.

Kids watch too much hunger games and fortnight.

They like the challenges like tide pods so when they see others do it they think they can do it better
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The Onion...

'No Way To Prevent This' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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https://imgur.com/L00aD7R
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Here come the liberals trying to throw their agenda into the spotlight rather than trying to pass legislation to prevent such events.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

Here come the liberals trying to throw their agenda into the spotlight rather than trying to pass legislation to prevent such events.

Nice try.
3/10 bait. Made me reply.

lmao at one of the girls in the article not even being surprised that it happened at her school. I wouldn't be surprised anymore either if I was still in school to be honest.
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knivesX2004 posted...

Blightzkrieg posted...

Here come the liberals trying to throw their agenda into the spotlight rather than trying to pass legislation to prevent such events.

Nice try.
3/10 bait. Made me reply.

Yeah and that makes you easy bait since you like to respond.
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PotD_Jester posted...

knivesX2004 posted...

Blightzkrieg posted...

Here come the liberals trying to throw their agenda into the spotlight rather than trying to pass legislation to prevent such events.

Nice try.
3/10 bait. Made me reply.

Yeah and that makes you easy bait since you like to respond.

We have a jester? When the hell did this happen?

Tell me a joke funny man.

Ok, why do you feel the need to make a topic about a school shooting when it's already been plastered all over the Goddamn place by the media? You act as if nobody didn't know about this s*** and making a topic about it won't accomplish anything except for pissing people off for all the wrong reasons. Face it, there is no solution to these school shootings no matter what people do. Instead of posting the story about it why not offer a solution to it instead of just drawing useless attention to a problem that is not going to go away?
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PotD_Jester posted...

Ok, why do you feel the need to make a topic about a school shooting when it's already been plastered all over the Goddamn place by the media? You act as if nobody didn't know about this s*** and making a topic about it won't accomplish anything except for pissing people off for all the wrong reasons. Face it, there is no solution to these school shootings no matter what people do. Instead of posting the story about it why not offer a solution to it instead of just drawing useless attention to a problem that is not going to go away?

Lol. Look at this guy.

I thought of a good deterrent for these shootings. Instead of revealing their name to the public, just call them dookie boy or something. Nobody would wanna be remembered as dookie boy

WastelandCowboy posted...

PotD_Jester posted...

Ok, why do you feel the need to make a topic about a school shooting when it's already been plastered all over the Goddamn place by the media? You act as if nobody didn't know about this s*** and making a topic about it won't accomplish anything except for pissing people off for all the wrong reasons. Face it, there is no solution to these school shootings no matter what people do. Instead of posting the story about it why not offer a solution to it instead of just drawing useless attention to a problem that is not going to go away?

Lol. Look at this guy.

Hey, you're the one who was wanting a joke. So, laugh it up cowboy.
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If they just armed teachers then this wouldn't have happened.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Lol. Look at this guy.

He's more triggered than everyone in the topic combined.
OhhhJa posted...

I thought of a good deterrent for these shootings. Instead of revealing their name to the public, just call them dookie boy or something. Nobody would wanna be remembered as dookie boy

Hmmm. I don't hate this idea. It won't work in this day and age, but I don't hate it.

knivesX2004 posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Lol. Look at this guy.

He's more triggered than everyone in the topic combined.
OhhhJa posted...

I thought of a good deterrent for these shootings. Instead of revealing their name to the public, just call them dookie boy or something. Nobody would wanna be remembered as dookie boy

Hmmm. I don't hate this idea. It won't work in this day and age, but I don't hate it.

Some degree of identification is good to help keep them straight, but I'd be all for anonymizing them to some extent. "Prisoner #21926" should be adequate.

PotD_Jester posted...

Ok, why do you feel the need to make a topic about a school shooting when it's already been plastered all over the Goddamn place by the media? You act as if nobody didn't know about this s*** and making a topic about it won't accomplish anything except for pissing people off for all the wrong reasons. Face it, there is no solution to these school shootings no matter what people do. Instead of posting the story about it why not offer a solution to it instead of just drawing useless attention to a problem that is not going to go away?

darkknight109 posted...

The Onion...

'No Way To Prevent This' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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CarefreeDude posted...

If we'd just ban schools, the school shootings would stop

https://mobile.twitter.com/TomNamako/status/997557776850268162
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He shot up a school, you say? Wow, somebody get this kid the Nobel fuckin' prize for originality.

I forsee this article getting recycled a lot in the coming years: http://btb2.free.fr/index.html#post032118
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SinisterSlay posted...

We're going to have an entire generation of children growing up with ptsd at this rate.
I think if anyone is anti gun and anti school shooting, they owe it to their kids to leave the country. There's no hope for America anymore. This problem will never be solved.

And the sad part is the topic title becomes more prominent every time we see it. That the US will be accustomed to seeing people die and dismissing it.
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blackhrt posted...

And the sad part is the topic title becomes more prominent every time we see it. That the US will be accustomed to seeing people die and dismissing it.

Uh yeah, people have been doing since, I don't know... when were regular people allowed to own guns? Oh right, since 1776. You give people access to weapons, some people are going to unjustly use them for horrible purposes. There isn't a way to avoid gun violence unless the government rounds up every firearm out there and madates that they stop being sold. That's the harsh truth that people don't want to admit. It can't be stopped. You can also start looking at the sociology and psychological reasons for it occuring, but again, you can't stop single parent households in low-income neighborhoods from happening. You can't stop bullying for 12 years from happening. You can't stop a lot of bad things on a nationwide level and that's why I think that this is not a government issue, it's a small community issue. Be nicer to people, be aware of the signs, help your neighbors out and establish a good sense of community and belonging so that people are less likely to feel outcast and are less likely to turn to violence.

GanglyKhan posted...

blackhrt posted...

And the sad part is the topic title becomes more prominent every time we see it. That the US will be accustomed to seeing people die and dismissing it.

Uh yeah, people have been doing since, I don't know... when were regular people allowed to own guns? Oh right, since 1776. You give people access to weapons, some people are going to unjustly use them for horrible purposes. There isn't a way to avoid gun violence unless the government rounds up every firearm out there and madates that they stop being sold. That's the harsh truth that people don't want to admit. It can't be stopped. You can also start looking at the sociology and psychological reasons for it occuring, but again, you can't stop single parent households in low-income neighborhoods from happening. You can't stop bullying for 12 years from happening. You can't stop a lot of bad things on a nationwide level and that's why I think that this is not a government issue, it's a small community issue. Be nicer to people, be aware of the signs, help your neighbors out and establish a good sense of community and belonging so that people are less likely to feel outcast and are less likely to turn to violence.

Damn, banning guns is actually easier than what you propose.

But it's moot, America will never ban guns, and never become polite, they are doomed. Anyone that cares should just gtfo of the country.
I don't suggest Canada either, they are right behind the US in gun violence. Better off with Germany or something. Or go to Japan, where the gun laws are so damn strict that criminals are scared to have them. Orgs like Yakuza ban them entirely because of how harsh the laws are.
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Well, I guess its time to racially profile young White Boys instead of Blacks who wanna use a bathroom or sleep...