spacemtfan Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 NOTE TO OTHER ADMIN'S: The old thread got deleted, but Wes has allowed me to start this new thread. April 20, 1999...two high school seniors come to Columbine High School and shoot the place up. 12 students and 1 teacher were killed during the mishap. The two shooters in question killed themselves in the library, where most of their murders took place. April 20, 2009 will be marked as the tenth anniversary of this tragic event. Even though Columbine is no longer the worst school massacre in history (that now belongs to the Viriginia Tech Masscare), it is still considered a horrific event. And although many people will mourn the loss of their loved ones, somewhere, some wacko is going to try and 'top' this. I was in the third grade when they shooting occured. Of course, being that young, I had no idea what just happened. I always wondered why the next few days after that, they had LOCK DOWN drills. When I finally found out...I didn't know what to think. To think that two kids would go so far as to kill innocent people makes me a bit paranoid of the kids around my school. How did Columbine affect you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 What do you guys think? I think Wes must be in a really great mood, as this is about five months early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemtfan Posted October 25, 2008 Author Share Posted October 25, 2008 ^Apparently, he was. As far as I know, he's the most critical of the admins. Maybe this is 5 months early, but then again...the two Columbine shooters planned their attack about a year early. This entered my mind because there was a "Rachel's Challenge" assembly at my school a few days ago. I just wanted to get everybody's opinion on the matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I think it was great for population control. All emos should rise up and kill themselves in memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParkTrips Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 ^ but without taking out the good, innocent people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Six Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I'm posting my "9/11 8th anniversary" thread when I get home tonight then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastercrazed49 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 This entered my mind because there was a "Rachel's Challenge" assembly at my school a few days ago. I just wanted to get everybody's opinion on the matter. Ya I just saw this program this week in my school. Very sad, but very powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemtfan Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 ^ Thank you! Finally, someone posts a SERIOUS comment and not a dumb post like the other three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 If you're gonna criticize people who post in your thread, don't expect it to remain open for very long. Just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemtfan Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 If you're gonna criticize people who post in your thread, don't expect it to remain open for very long. Just saying. Sorry Wes, but I hate it when someone makes funny comments when this thread is about something tragic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Sorry Wes, but I hate it when someone makes funny comments when this thread is about something tragic. --Robb "Domokun's chasing kittens is SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!" Alvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jds03 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 If you want to hear a serious response about school shootings, Ive got a real story for you. Two years ago in December i came out of my history class to walk up narrow hallway in the corner of our school. As i came to turn into the main hallway of our school people began to push and shove, my first thoughts were that it was some immature people who were pushing and shoving just to be annoying, right until two seniors came sprinting out shouting "get the **** out of here NOW!". I was really confused and i only backed up a little, however as the crowd began to clear i saw about 300 feet in front of me there was a kid with a gym bag by his side holding a LOADED AK-47. He had just shot two rounds into a cinder block wall, which i hadn't hear since i was just rounding the corner. I flat out ran faster than i had ever before back down the hallway, then immediately smashed through the front doors of our school and ran out to the middle of the soccer field where i could see a couple of my classmates were gathering. There were people everywhere, and they were running in every direction, right until the police shouted for everyone to get clear off the school property. We all ran again all the way behind the football stadium and into the back neighborhoods. i ran into the street when this car of seniors rounded the corner at like 50 MPH, swerved around me and my friends and then continued to make a full u-turn, and drove off at highway speeds down the neighborhood street. My friends and I peered into someones back yard at the school, and we could see that the SWAT team and the bomb squad had already arrived and there were men with snipers perched at areas around the school. An entire helicopter had landed in our stadium. At this point i just decided to split up and i ran all the way to my house. By then there was more than 9 helicopters if i can remember right. We had off the entire next day, then only had an hour of school the next ,followed by just a half day. In the end the only person who died was the gunman, because he only had the intention of killing himself. People in my school said before he took the gun out of his gym bag he declared " if you can hear me, I'm not going to heart you. This is just no place for you to be right now." In the end, even though nobody else was killed or harmed, this was still way too close a call for everyone in my school, and everyone was paranoid for the rest of the year. Even though our school is back to normal again, and the faculty and students try to pretend nothing ever happened, we still all remember. I will always remember December 12, 2006 as begin one of the most shocking experiences of my entire life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemtfan Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 Sorry Wes, but I hate it when someone makes funny comments when this thread is about something tragic. --Robb "Domokun's chasing kittens is SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!" Alvey I'm so sorry Robb for wasting your time. I promise not to do it again. If you want to hear a serious response about school shootings, Ive got a real story for you. Two years ago in December i came out of my history class to walk up narrow hallway in the corner of our school. As i came to turn into the main hallway of our school people began to push and shove, my first thoughts were that it was some immature people who were pushing and shoving just to be annoying, right until two seniors came sprinting out shouting "get the **** out of here NOW!". I was really confused and i only backed up a little, however as the crowd began to clear i saw about 300 feet in front of me there was a kid with a gym bag by his side holding a LOADED AK-47. He had just shot two rounds into a cinder block wall, which i hadn't hear since i was just rounding the corner. I flat out ran faster than i had ever before back down the hallway, then immediately smashed through the front doors of our school and ran out to the middle of the soccer field where i could see a couple of my classmates were gathering. There were people everywhere, and they were running in every direction, right until the police shouted for everyone to get clear off the school property. We all ran again all the way behind the football stadium and into the back neighborhoods. i ran into the street when this car of seniors rounded the corner at like 50 MPH, swerved around me and my friends and then continued to make a full u-turn, and drove off at highway speeds down the neighborhood street. My friends and I peered into someones back yard at the school, and we could see that the SWAT team and the bomb squad had already arrived and there were men with snipers perched at areas around the school. An entire helicopter had landed in our stadium. At this point i just decided to split up and i ran all the way to my house. By then there was more than 9 helicopters if i can remember right. We had off the entire next day, then only had an hour of school the next ,followed by just a half day. In the end the only person who died was the gunman, because he only had the intention of killing himself. People in my school said before he took the gun out of his gym bag he declared " if you can hear me, I'm not going to heart you. This is just no place for you to be right now." In the end, even though nobody else was killed or harmed, this was still way too close a call for everyone in my school, and everyone was paranoid for the rest of the year. Even though our school is back to normal again, and the faculty and students try to pretend nothing ever happened, we still all remember. I will always remember December 12, 2006 as begin one of the most shocking experiences of my entire life. Whoa...that was pretty close. It's kind of funny that I went to a bad middle school in San Bernardino and nothing like this ever happened. The only thing we had to worry about were fireworks going off and the office catching on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disney Dood Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 My incredibly small town has actually had 3 lockdowns in the time I have been in school. We had one guy actually just hanging around the school with a knife. Another time we had a code red drill but absolutely nobody except the people in the office knew about it. I was in the hall at the time and people were running toward me like "shit dude, I think it's real!". So I went into the nearest classrom with abot 30 other kids and we just sat there and debated if we should throw a desk out the window and jump. That's probably the most scared I've ever been. The other time, a bottle of hydrochloric acid went missing and they didn't want anybody out of the school, for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 If people want to discuss a bit closer to the actual anniversary, feel free to start a new topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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