It started just before 12:33 p.m. on Friday, moments after the high school senior and debate club member parked his car in the student lot at Arapahoe High School in suburban Denver, then — wearing a bandolier containing shotgun shells and carrying a pump-action shotgun, a machete and a backpack holding three Molotov cocktails — walked through a door adjacent to the library.
By 12:35 p.m., it was all over.
Frank Woronoff told CNN he had known Pierson since they were freshmen together.
“He was the last person I would expect to shoot up a high school,” the high school senior said. “He was honestly incredibly humble and down to earth. He was a little geeky, but in a charming way.”
Friday’s 14 minutes has now morphed into 80 seconds. The teacher was alerted and left the building within 80 seconds of his arrival? Complete bullshit, as usual. It is a huge school and would have taken him several minutes just to walk into the school from the student parking lot. He was carrying a shotgun and a machete, and was able to get into the school without being taken down. Unbelievable.
Piers Morgan is in Australia watching the Poms cop an absolute flogging in the cricket. He reckons he’s wasted his entire trip. If he says boo about the Colorado incident, you should know he’s quaffing a few cold ones at the cricket while tweeting!
Hopefully he will bump into Jeremy Clarkson at the pub.
Morgan will need a gun if Clarkson shows up. 😀
“High School Kids Don’t Do Things Like This Without Being Pushed By A Leftist Ideology”
They crack because their entire world is a lie. Lefties buy into the MSM/academic false narratives, and when they are confronted with facts, many do not have the mental or social capacity to deal with it. They snap. They emote instead of reason. They react like the immature beings that they are.
At the risk of sounding like a Luddite octogenarian, let me mention violent video games. No, video games will not turn a Dr. Jekyll into a Mr. Hyde, but they must have some desensitizing effect. How many times can the player of a first-person game shoot an opponent before it begins to change his perception of killing?
Add a little prescription mood altering drugs, mix well, and observe what happens.
(Somehow I failed to mention “stir in some liberal education.” What a phrase, “liberal education”! And let me point out that today’s liberal education is not at all what “liberal” meant 50 years ago. Of course “conservative” does not mean the same either…) “Liberal education” is the only form of sociopathy accepted as normal by half the population.
Lastly, the actual object of the post — the odd shifting of details in reports of what happened. As with most of the shootings, the first reports do not match the later, and not in minor or insignificant ways. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that our MSM is altering the facts of the news into a story more suitable for pushing their agenda. This lying is not new — but it does seem to be more prevalent. Or maybe the citizen reporters of the internet are simply making it more visible.
After WWII the US Army changed their target practice from circular targets to human form, and drilled for rapid fire. As a result, troops were desensitized and were more likely to engage human targets on the battlefield. Anyone who has combat training knows it is all about conditioning and reflexes.
“LT. COL. DAVE GROSSMAN, U.S. Army (Ret.) Director, Warrior Science Group, http://www.killology.com: Member, American Board for Certification in Homeland Security; Member, American College of Forensic Examiners Institute
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsEuR7dhj4
I think that Lt. Col. Grossman is correct (with one small caveat.) He says that the movies and video games are the one new factor. I would add to that factor the additional new factor of commonly available and prescribed psychotropic drugs — most of which were never tested on children and adolescents.
I have a family member who is vehemently against guns. He has been in the motion picture business, producing and distributing movies (many of them B movies full of violence) for almost a half century.
“I like a good cigar, I like to have a beer, and I like sex,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean it is right for children to have those things.”
“Every year games get sicker and more violent,” he charged, telling the crowd about one in which players vicariously set innocent victims on fire and then urinate on them as they burn to death.
In the game Manhunter II for the Wii system, a mental patient tries to escape from a bizarre insane asylum using everything from a sickle to rip out a character’s skull to a club to attack a cop. Players use the motion-sensor controls to act out the action. “This is Wii murder.”
“In one case, a 3-year old already had a “rap sheet” and had been kicked out of preschool when parents brought him to the doctor asking that the boy be medicated. The doctor refused to prescribe anything until he had been kept away from TV and games for a full week. The parents found behavior problems nearly disappeared. “You don’t put kids on drugs until you’ve tried taking away the drug they are already on,” Grossman said. What if an entire school detoxed?”
Stanford University tested that hypothesis. In studies of an entire district that eliminated TV, games and other aggressive media for 10 days, students raised math and language test scores 15 percent or more, bullying incidents were cut 4-50 percent, and families reported that their children were no longer whining for their parents to buy things.”
http://www.stormlakepilottribune.com/story/1990615.html
Maybe if we listened to Lt Col Grossman, we would not have so many medicated children, and so many unnecessary deaths.
Hey Gator, good points there! As for TV, yes, kill your TV! I knwo that most people will not get rid of their TV completely, but responsible adults need to very closely watch what is available for their children to see. Sadly, few adults bother to do much of a job censoring content, and children suffer from it.
My grandson is four and he recently asked me to (his words) tell him “about inappropriate movies.” I explained that even when he watches things that he KNOWS are not real, they still affect him — at least a little — as if they were real things that he saw. I explained how watching the wrong movies when I was his age made me have bad dreams and be frightened. I told him that just like muscles got stronger as he got bigger, that people’s sense of right and wrong got stronger as well. It is important that young people not be given confusing or frightening ideas until they were old enough to not be hurt by them. That made sense to him and he now does not complain when his parents will not let him watch certain things on TV.
Good to know your grandson has a great mentor. Maybe we can save his generation after all.
One thing is observing the real world and the other is models. We all know that only models tell the true story.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman said the magical words ” sleep deprivation ” .. They lose the capacity to see what is real and what is the game and then the game takes over. Parents and/or teachers who want to take that drug away are the enemy. Kids are still primitive in their thinking . Or you rule or they do with all its consequences. Modern upbringing has done more harm as good. As an educator you stand above the child, you are not his friend. The educator will determine when what is done. If we as Adults are afraid to say NO we are pushing kids in the wrong direction.
If We The People are afraid to say No, government always will aggressively take over. For them to govern is as a video game.
http://youtu.be/mnk0tIqsbYM
Try walking from the parking lot to the school door at Sidwell Friends with a machete and shotgun and see how far you get…