Topic: The school massacre that didn't happen ...

[Pandora]

Via Auster, AP reports: BARTLESVILLE, Okla.—Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him.

Just hours before?  Were this eighteen year-old and the CT murderer in contact, perhaps?

I am starting to wonder, as some here and elsewhere have, about what or whom is setting off these young males and their chosen methods/targets.

[Glock32]

I don't know what it is, there's lots of things that are probably partially to blame. And guns aren't on the list. A generation or two ago, it was common for high schools to have official school-sponsored rifle teams. Rifles could be seen hanging in the back window of pickup trucks. They were ubiquitous and easier to obtain than now. But there weren't mass shootings in any sort of frequency.

What changed?

There's certainly the role of psychotropic medications that are doled out like candy. But the meds are more the symptom than the problem themselves. Why are so many young boys put on mind altering prescription medications? If you look at the reasons given, most of them could be summarized as "for behaving like young boys". Males in this culture are not allowed to behave in normal masculine ways anymore. From preschool they are told their normal inclinations are aberrant, disruptive, in need of modification. Do we really know the long term effects of these medications, particularly when given to children whose brains are still developing? Medical science doesn't even really know the mechanism of action for many of these drugs.

I think that is part of it, this War on Maleness and the chemical weapons used to fight it.

[IronDioPriest]

I am happy to say that our high school has a trapshooting team. My son's ex-girlfriend's brother is a champion shooter. It's a "club" rather than a school sport, but still, it's nice to know I live in a place where such a thing can exist. Right square in the most conservative county in Michecle Bachmann's district, so yes, I recognize the anomaly.

[charlesoakwood]

"Were this eighteen year-old and the CT murderer in contact, perhaps?"

That's an interesting question; he was a gamer and, I think, a lot of that is real time with other gamers across the internet and or some like minded social network.  Unless a blogger is capable of answering it it won't be answered.

Haven't even heard the question until your post and I doubt it will be asked by the MSM.

ETA: Did this kid also destroy his hard drive?

[charlesoakwood]

     http://www.news.com.au/world/sammie-chavez-arrested-for-planning-attack-on-high-school/story-fndir2ev-1226539477111
           
Rep. Mark McCullough, a Republican, said he is working on a bill that would allow teachers and school administrators to receive firearms training through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, which would authorize them to carry weapons at school and at school events.

"It scares me that a madman could come into my children's school and kill my children," said McCullough, who has two boys, ages 7 and 9. ``We need to harden these targets, harden these facilities with simple, common-sense steps.

"It's not rocket science. It's just overcoming what might be traditional, emotional, reactive feelings toward guns in schools."

[Pandora]

     http://www.news.com.au/world/sammie-chavez-arrested-for-planning-attack-on-high-school/story-fndir2ev-1226539477111
           
Rep. Mark McCullough, a Republican, said he is working on a bill that would allow teachers and school administrators to receive firearms training through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, which would authorize them to carry weapons at school and at school events.

"It scares me that a madman could come into my children's school and kill my children," said McCullough, who has two boys, ages 7 and 9. ``We need to harden these targets, harden these facilities with simple, common-sense steps.

"It's not rocket science. It's just overcoming what might be traditional, emotional, reactive feelings toward guns in schools."

There's nothing "traditional" about the emotional reactive feelings toward guns in schools.  It's a relatively recent development brought to us by the usual suspect -- THE LEFT.

[John Florida]

     http://www.news.com.au/world/sammie-chavez-arrested-for-planning-attack-on-high-school/story-fndir2ev-1226539477111
           
Rep. Mark McCullough, a Republican, said he is working on a bill that would allow teachers and school administrators to receive firearms training through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, which would authorize them to carry weapons at school and at school events.

"It scares me that a madman could come into my children's school and kill my children," said McCullough, who has two boys, ages 7 and 9. ``We need to harden these targets, harden these facilities with simple, common-sense steps.

"It's not rocket science. It's just overcoming what might be traditional, emotional, reactive feelings toward guns in schools."

  He can work on it all he wants,they will never take it up,nut the dems not the repubs. The end.

[Pandora]

     http://www.news.com.au/world/sammie-chavez-arrested-for-planning-attack-on-high-school/story-fndir2ev-1226539477111
           
Rep. Mark McCullough, a Republican, said he is working on a bill that would allow teachers and school administrators to receive firearms training through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, which would authorize them to carry weapons at school and at school events.

"It scares me that a madman could come into my children's school and kill my children," said McCullough, who has two boys, ages 7 and 9. ``We need to harden these targets, harden these facilities with simple, common-sense steps.

"It's not rocket science. It's just overcoming what might be traditional, emotional, reactive feelings toward guns in schools."

  He can work on it all he wants,they will never take it up,nut the dems not the repubs. The end.

Don't be too sure.  The Republican in question is an Oklahoma state rep, not a US representative.