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...before, in a shooting spree in the high school cafeteria, Kinkel, carrying a semiautomatic rifle and two pistols, had discharged 51 rounds of ammunition, fatally injuring two students and wounding 18 others. Afterward, when deputies drove to his family's gingerbread-trimmed A-frame in a wooded subdivision, they found his parents shot to death. After his arrest, a handcuffed Kinkel managed to get at a knife taped to his leg and lunge at an officer in a police interrogation room. He was subdued with pepper spray...
...margins in mega-corporations to low test scores in public schools. Politicians and CEOs are racing to the soap box arm in arm, hailing you as the way out. If only the kids could have computers, maybe they'd become more literate, stop smoking cigarettes and cancel that shooting spree they were planning for the nonexistent recess...
...fact is that we're a desensitized country. No one winces at violent movies anymore, unless a dog is killed. No one is surprised when they open the paper and read about the latest case of genocide in a foreign country or a murder spree in our own. No one minds when little boys are aggressive and play with toy guns. And no one minds when those same little boys are allowed access to real guns by elastic gun control laws...
After an extended shopping spree in Paris and Milan, Dr. K doesn't need to hear the bratty blather of a Har-void like yourself. The fact of the matter is that Dr. K has been on special assignment. It strikes me as hardly surprising that some wannabe would imposture the lovely and charming D.K. (not to be confused with Donna Karan) so get a clue and as Rene my charming French stylist would say, "Nique...
...long as there has been childhood, a well-developed sense of grievance has been part of it. But it used to be unusual for kids to get back at the world with live ammunition. Jonesboro's is the fourth student shooting spree on school grounds in the U.S. since February 1997. That was when Evan Ramsey, 16, opened fire in Bethel, Alaska, leaving two dead and two wounded. After Pearl came West Paducah, Ky. Michael Carneal, 14, erupted there in December, killing three students and wounding five. Joseph ("Colt") Todd, 14, an eighth-grader at Stamps High School, killed...