Why can't these fuckers decide to shoot a fucking billionaire or some politician? Why is it always a school and in most cases elementary ones?

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For context, Bend is a small city in eastern oregon.

Portland, Salem (the capital) and Eugene (2nd biggest city) are all in the williamette valley in the west. The eastern 2/3rds is mostly high alpine desert and very sparsely populated.

Bend is small, but the largest settlement in the east, and fairly wealthy. Eastern OR is basically Idaho, culturally, but Bend is ritzier and richer than the rest of East OR.

There is nothing we could do, says someone who hasn't tried anything.

By the time officers arrived on scene, the suspected assailant had been shot and killed inside the school building. It is unclear who shot the suspect.

I suppose if you work in an elementary school these days, you know the Calvary isn't coming in and you're on your own. My guess is a teacher took down the shooter.

Just another day in America. Unfortunately.

Wow for once there actually was a "good guy with a gun". Probably not a great strategy anyway, because the death toll is too high still.

Very fucking sad case. 16 year old shooter and he picks an elementary school of all things? Fuck.

The price we pay for cosplaytriotism

Without knowing any details of this case and the actual situation that happened - at one point in time, a civilian with a firearm opened fire at another (minor) with a firearm because there was a possible danger scenario near a school. How did the "good guy" in this scenario know exactly that this was the right call to open fire, and not just another possible "good guy with a gun"?

In this case, he was evidently correct, well done! But it could easily have become a terrible blue-on-blue scenario as well.

To me, this single "good guy with a gun" scenario does not justify the fact that firearms are so widespread that the "bad guy" easily got his own, and became more deadly as a result.

Just the daily small school shooting. Barely news worthy.

Read it was a special needs class that was attacked; teacher tried to stop the shooter by placing herself between the kids and the shooter and seize the gun.

Unfortunately the shooter's name has been revealed. Infamy is what these nihilists want.

Not to be off topic, but we should start seeing a lot of these again nearing the midterms. You'll hear a lot of lying about doing something about them, and after trump steals the midterms he'll be clear to remove American gun ownership - can't have the peons running around armed. Sounds like an insurrection.