Shooting at my local high school this morning

[enyawd72]

At 7:30 this morning two kids walked into the lunchroom at Chardon High School, about ten minutes from where I work, and shot at least four students.

Details are still coming in...I am just in disbelief. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell is wrong with these kids today. When I went to high school in the mid 80's I'm sure just as many if not more parents owned guns than they do now, but kids bringing them to school to kill other kids was just unheard of.

What has changed? I just cannot figure it out. I hope nobody was killed or seriously wounded, but they haven't said yet.

[HumanWolfman]

Wow! What State is this in??

[Earth 2 Chris]

That is beyond awful. I almost every instance like this, the warning signs were there. The kids that go off and do these things are deeply disturbed, and should have been removed from the situation and given help before something like this happened.

I hope and pray there were no casualties.

Chris

[Adam West]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...hool-shooting/

[enyawd72]

Wow! What State is this in??

Ohio. Sorry, I should have included that...

[Earth 2 Chris]

Sounds like no casualties, thank God. Still, disturbing beyond belief.

Chris

[Godzilla]

That is just so sad.

[enyawd72]

That is beyond awful. I almost every instance like this, the warning signs were there. The kids that go off and do these things are deeply disturbed, and should have been removed from the situation and given help before something like this happened.

I hope and pray there were no casualties.

Chris

Thing is Chris, I'm not so sure these kids ARE disturbed...I think they just have no morals whatsoever. Society has unfortunately raised a generation of kids that are nothing but self-important, narcissistic little monsters. They have been taught that THEY are important, what THEY want is what matters, that THEIR feelings and desires should be coddled and catered to, to the extent that everyone else around them is unimportant. Other people just don't matter. They see them as obstacles to be removed in order to get what they want. When they don't get their way they lash out, sometimes violently.

Look at all of the reality TV "stars" we have today. They depict selfish behavior as rewarding. Most of them glorify being disrespectful to and/or hurting others, backstabbing, cheating, etc. as a way to get ahead in life, and sadly, these types of shows have a huge following, and the kids that watch them want to BE them.

[Mikey]

They just said the girl got shot in the behind so at least she'll most likely be ok

[Godzilla]

They are reporting on the noon news that 1 student is dead and 5 injured. Really sad.

[toys2cool]

pretty scary stuff...I bet the shooters were the so called"loser" everyone bullied or picked on...these people all eventually snap

[4NDR01D]

Thing is Chris, I'm not so sure these kids ARE disturbed...I think they just have no morals whatsoever. Society has unfortunately raised a generation of kids that are nothing but self-important, narcissistic little monsters. They have been taught that THEY are important, what THEY want is what matters, that THEIR feelings and desires should be coddled and catered to, to the extent that everyone else around them is unimportant. Other people just don't matter. They see them as obstacles to be removed in order to get what they want. When they don't get their way they lash out, sometimes violently.

I don't think anybody can paint an entire generation of kids based on the actions of a few. What about the millions of kids who went to school today to learn, who were respectful to their teachers and parents? where's the praise for all the kids who are more socially/environmentally conscious than any generation before them.

Kids don't decide to just go shoot up their school just because they watch a few episodes of Jersey Shore either.

[Rallygirl]

Maybe the shooter was pushed into action by years of torment from fellow classmates.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Just crazy. I just cannot fathom how different a lot of these kids are nowadays. Total disregard for life. Both the ones who do the bullying and those who seek to get even.

[Nostalgiabuff]

so sad. I saw your post this morning and had to immediately put on CNN. my heart goes out to the family of the student that was killed. it's a scary state of things when your children are not even safe at school