In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
They Are Not A Tragedy...They Are Massacres
By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Sep 23 2008, 04:51 PM
Another school shooting...Not a tragedy…a massacre.
This time in Finland. Today one student killed killed ten others, and then himself (of course, he turned the gun on himself; coward).
Of course, neighbors said he was “quiet.”
A masked student went on the rampage at a Finnish school Tuesday, methodically gunning down 10 people before turning the weapon on himself, a day after police quizzed him over a chilling YouTube warning.
Young women screamed as the 22-year-old shooter stalked the corridors of the vocational college in a ski mask and black outfit letting off round after round at helpless students before starting several fires, witnesses and police said.
The massacre in Kauhajoki in southwestern Finland was the country's deadliest school shooting and the second in under a year.
"I heard the sound of shooting and hysterical girls' voices. Then two girls came towards my room and said a weird man was shooting," Jukka Forsberg, the janitor of the school, told AFP.
"I went to see and saw a guy leaving a big black bag in the corridor and going into classroom number three and closing the door.
"I looked through the window and he immediately shot at me," he said, adding, "Thank God I was not hit! He fired at me but I was running zigzag. I ran for my life."
Forsberg said he heard "horrible screams of pain" as he raced out of the building.
The shooter has been identified as a second-year culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari.
Read the article HERE
Sure... there were advanced warning signs (a video).
I blogged last November about Terrorism in American Schools: The First of ALL Fears
It’s worth a second look.
Also, New Berlin is going to be installing high tech video equipment in their school district, just approved this past month.
I also blogged about schools using high tech video systems last November,
Smile Kids, You're On LIVE Camera.
An article came out last week in "Campus Safety" for educators that states there are between 2,000-3,000 camera "systems" out in the schools throughout the country right now. (Making the Leap To IP Video - A Safer Bet. www.campussafety.com (Sept/Oct 08).
Since Franklin Public Schools are so close to the House of Correction, with the threat of domestic terrorism (that includes from students), and whatever looms ahead from foreign terrorism, I think we need to keep this equipment in mind.
We are currently repairing our track again for $53,000 and have a renovation of the stadium/track in the future plans for over 2.5 million....
We just had a safety program on that track. Perhaps some safety equipment in the schools might be of benefit. Just a thought.
