After the Shooting

[DeclinetoState]

Before Virginia Tech, before Columbine, there was Paducah, Ky. A 1997 school shooting there left Missy Jenkins Smith paralyzed, but not without hope. She has a husband, a baby on the way and a message on how to stop the violence.

By Kevin Sites, Fri Apr 20, 5:00 AM ET

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MURRAY, Ky. — The massacre at Virginia Tech seemed more like a memory than news to Missy Jenkins Smith.

"When something like that happens, it's almost like re-living it again," she says from the kitchen of her house in Murray, Ky.

It should. The details of the Virginia Tech tragedy are strikingly similar to the Dec. 1, 1997, school shooting at Heath High School in Paducah, Ky., that turned Jenkins Smith from a member of the marching band into a T4 paraplegic — paralyzed from the chest down.

Every morning she would meet in the school lobby with 30 to 40 other students to say a prayer before the start of the day. That morning, freshman Michael Carneal, a 14-year-old outcast often bullied because of his small frame and clownish behavior, brought a loaded .22 handgun to school.
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[Wolfcounsel]

Jenkins Smith says now, 10 years later, she's ready to speak with Carneal and ask him questions that have bothered her for a decade. --from DeclinetoState's link

The only thing I would tell that SOB 10 years later, or whenever I could, is "Burn in Hell!" right before I would blow his brains out. No asshole who murders in cold-blood remains attached to the human race.

[noncom]

That morning, freshman Michael Carneal, a 14-year-old outcast often bullied because of his small frame and clownish behavior, brought a loaded .22 handgun to school.

... a little respect and kindness could be just what it takes to disarm an angry soul.
Isn't it funny how the liberal media always happen to accidentally leave out all the unflattering details about the "clownish outcasts" who massacre all those people? You know, all that "irrelevant" stuff like how they were homosexually molested; how they attended class on more medication than the average chemo patient; how administration officials ignored a string of prior problems a mile long and left them in the general school population; etc. 'Cause none of that matters. They were all really just misunderstood "Breakfast Club" types.

Of course this little psychopath wasn't really mad at the PRAYER GROUP MEMBERS he actually shot at. I mean, where on earth would he have gotten the idea that Christians are the source of all his problems? Heck, if the liberal media don't know the answer to that, then I guess no one does.

Nope, once again, the media verdict is clear: this tragedy was cause by the same things that cause all tragedies: handguns, video games and those mean old "bullies" who used to make fun of the effete little English Club weirdos who now work in the media.