What’s with kids today Ovid, CO. school

[rjr6150]

www.julesburgadvocate.com/ci_31682663

This is just crazy

[Bailey Guns]

Obviously the kid didn't hear about the walkout.

[def90]

I don't know.. I remember schools getting bomb threats back in the 70's while I was in school.. Was a lot easier to do back then without caller ID, abundant payphones and zero security cameras at any of the payphones.

[CoGirl303]

all the copycats are coming out of the woodwork.


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[Lurch]

When I was in high school someone actually set off a remote controlled bomb in the library. The blast was big enough to knock over 3 rows of book shelves. His punishment was he wasn't allowed to attend graduation ceremonies. Ahhh the good old days.

[kpp80202]

My kids’ school in Jeffco had a similar threat, as did Columbine High. Three kids facing misdemeanor charges. What idiots.

[hollohas]

We had bomb threats many times at my school in the late 80's too.

We'd all sit on the football field or playground until the fire department checked all the lockers and trashcans. And head back to our classrooms when they were done.

I wasn't the least bit scared to go to school either.

[Gman]

I remember at one of the high schools I attended someone flushing a big chunk of sodium down a toilet and blowing up the plumbing. Plenty of bomb threats.

[kpp80202]

Problem is those were just threats in our time. I don’t remember anyone actually getting murdered.

[hollohas]

Problem is those were just threats in our time. I don’t remember anyone actually getting murdered.Here are just a few.

Patrick Purdy - Stockton 1989
5 kids murdered, 32 injured with AK47

Cookeville Elem school hostage situation and fire 1986. Two people take school of 150 hostage, set bomb, bombs goes off, sets school on fire, 74 injured.

Cleveland Elem Shooting - San Diego 1979
2 killed, 9 wounded by 16 year old girl with 22.

1959- Edgar Allen Poe elem in Houston. Guy bring suitcase of dynamite to school, kills two adults, 3 kids.

1927 Bath Michigan. 38 children killed in bombing at elem school.

School homicides are not new and still are not common.

[def90]

^^ yeah, shit was still happening, we didn't have Facebook, social media and a 24 hour news cycle to tell us about it.

[TheSparkens]

Late 70's Glenwood Springs 6th grade we did a hole semester in how to survive in the out doors, this included guns, how to use them, and how not to we got our hunter safety out of it. Jump ahead to high school in Colorado Springs early 80's a large amount of us had guns in racks, in view in the parking lot, many of us had Buck knife 512 hanging on are belts all day, beside the occasional cherry bomb or M-80 flushed in a toilet no problems. Today any of this is a SWAT event, defferent times for sure. I think everyone new if you pointed a gun you most likely would have three more pointed back at you there were guns at school but no one ever showed one and ever said anything stupid about it.

[hollohas]

And that's what it all boils down to. Guns have not changed. So guns can't be the problem.

The only variable is the people.

Edit:

If you look back at school homicides over the decades there is a pretty clear trend until recently. They used to target specific teachers or other specific kids. Teachers who were mean, or the kid that was the worst bully.

Now the trend appears to be that school homicides are largely indiscriminate. That supports the people variable being the problem, not the weapon.