Minnesota plot: To foil another Columbine, be nosy neighbors, parents
Paul Whitefield, LA Times
May 2, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
Just how long will the ghost of Columbine haunt this country?
This week, thanks in part to a tip from an observant citizen, police in Waseca, Minn., apparently foiled yet another teenager bent on a Columbine-style massacre.
The details of the 17-year-old’s alleged plot are all over the Internet (I won’t give his name; the L.A. Times does not name juveniles in criminal proceedings unless they are charged as adults.)
But to say that the story makes for chilling reading is an understatement. Suffice to say that police reportedly found the boy had homemade bombs, an assault rifle, other firearms and lots of ammunition. Some were kept in a rented storage unit and some, amazingly, in a locked gun safe in his room.
(More here.)
May 2, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
Just how long will the ghost of Columbine haunt this country?
This week, thanks in part to a tip from an observant citizen, police in Waseca, Minn., apparently foiled yet another teenager bent on a Columbine-style massacre.
The details of the 17-year-old’s alleged plot are all over the Internet (I won’t give his name; the L.A. Times does not name juveniles in criminal proceedings unless they are charged as adults.)
But to say that the story makes for chilling reading is an understatement. Suffice to say that police reportedly found the boy had homemade bombs, an assault rifle, other firearms and lots of ammunition. Some were kept in a rented storage unit and some, amazingly, in a locked gun safe in his room.
(More here.)
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2 Comments:
This story is very disturbing ... considering that he was assembling bombs and the recent knife incidents in Murraysville PA and Milford CT ... plus, too many times that there have been bomb threats called into various schools, isn't it time to recognize that America needs to invest in school counselors and school psychologists.
One piece of legislation that could help is H.R. 628 / S. 185 Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013. The legislation, which is sponsored by Senator Al Franken and House co-sponsors Keith Ellison and Tim Walz, indentifies the problem :
One in five youth in the United States experience mental illness, and 70 percent of adolescents
with mental health problems do not receive care. Over the last two decades, suicide rates have
doubled among Americans between the ages of 10 and 14.
These type of disturbing stories seem to occur with greater frequency and I'd love to know why. Albeit a different time(1960's and 70's), more friends than not carried pocket knives with them at all times and there wasn't any issues if someone had a gun in their vehicle at school. My Dad fondly recalls shooting a 22 rifle over his grade school lunch hours. What has changed?
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