Shooting at High Schools In the Top of Issues List
Posted by HCN on Monday, September 20, 2021
The issues list means situations that need to be resolved as soon as possible. There has been a lot of talk, a lot of hype, the raising of awareness by newspapers including this one in the effort to reduce school shootings. Nevertheless, the frequency of shootings is so alarming it is as though little has been done to stop them. Fortunately, there has been work done, and may be among the reasons why things are as good as they are. There is a long, long way to go -to get school safety to where it should be.
It is Monday, and the first of the major news stories seen, is of a shooting in a high school which took place about 20 minutes ago.
That keeps being the morning news over and over.
The bottom line is school shootings must be reduced immediately.
What has been noticed, by looking at the stories set below, as of today September 20, 2021, is that Mondays and Wednesdays seem to be the days when school shootings of this sort are occurring most often, take since the beginning of 2021. Medium towns, not too far from bigger cities. Medium caliber handguns involved. Emotionally charged disputes pointed as among motives.
It is very likely, the list here is not all; and, there have been high school shootings in other places on the globe this year. In chronological order from today to further back:
Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina, drive-by shooting injures at least 3 individuals, Wednesday, 8/18/2021
It is Monday, and the first of the major news stories seen, is of a shooting in a high school which took place about 20 minutes ago.
That keeps being the morning news over and over.
The bottom line is school shootings must be reduced immediately.
What has been noticed, by looking at the stories set below, as of today September 20, 2021, is that Mondays and Wednesdays seem to be the days when school shootings of this sort are occurring most often, take since the beginning of 2021. Medium towns, not too far from bigger cities. Medium caliber handguns involved. Emotionally charged disputes pointed as among motives.
It is very likely, the list here is not all; and, there have been high school shootings in other places on the globe this year. In chronological order from today to further back:
Heritage High School in Newport News, Virginia; 2 students injured, event earlier this afternoon, Monday, 9/20/2021.
HCN comment, the victims, and the totality of the situation, it may be said, were very lucky. Regardless of the caliber of firearm, the weapons are dangerous, and even low caliber firearms can cause serious injury.
S.J. Welsh Middle School in Lake Charles Louisiana had a situation where a 13 year old was taken into custody for threatening to conduct a shooting incident, Wednesday, 9/9/2021, or thereabout.
Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, shooting, Wednesday, 9/1/2021, left one dead
Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina, drive-by shooting injures at least 3 individuals, Wednesday, 8/18/2021
Watson Chapel Junior High School in Pine-Bluff, Arkansas, had incident that left one injured, Monday, 3/1/2021
