here we go again: shooting at high school in Washington

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<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/us/washington-school-shooting/index.html?c=mobile-homepage-t”>http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/us/washington-school-shooting/index.html?c=mobile-homepage-t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I don’t even have words anymore.</p>

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<p>It always sends shivers across my whole body when I hear of these - perhaps because I work in a high school. News travels quickly around school when these happen as we all know it can happen anywhere. My prayers go out to all involved.</p>

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<p>I don’t know why they say it is a high school in or near to Seattle. Marysville is at least an hours drive out of Seattle, no traffic. Not even close. I guess it’s to make it more sensational.</p>

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<p>I was wondering when someone was going to post about this. </p>

<p>It’s pretty depressing. </p>

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<p>Sorry about that, bd. Thanks for putting the location in perspective. </p>

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<p>Praying for the victims & families.
I hope they don’t splash the shooter’s face & name everwhere. I feel like that encourages copycats.</p>

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<p>It’s not your fault, romani. That’s what the headlines are saying, in bold print.</p>

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<p>CNN is phone interviewing a student by phone who witnessed the shootings. He says that the shooter was well known and “a nice kid” who seemed perfectly normal yesterday. He said the shooter was sitting at a big round table in the cafeteria, then suddenly stood up and shot several students point blank. He said the shooter was using a small, cheap looking pistol and had a very flat affect while he attempted to murder his classmates. At one point, the gun seemed to be jammed, so the witness took that opportunity to escape the scene.</p>

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<p>Another witness is stating that the shooter was a freshman and he believes that the students at the table were specifically targeted. He said that student is a Native American who was recently “beat up” by some other students about two weeks ago.</p>

<p>What a horrible thing to have to witness. Wounds that will take a long time to heal, I’m sure.</p>

<p>Thinking of the parents of the students who were shot. That’s your absolute worst nightmare, and I feel so bad for them all. </p>

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(CNN) – The gunman who opened fire Friday morning at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, just north of Seattle, shot five people, killing one, before turning the gun on himself, law enforcement officials told CNN.</p>

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<p>Very sad.</p>

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<p>There’s no reason to believe that the media cares about details anymore. Marysville and northern Snohomish County are a long way from Seattle. They might as well have said ‘A shooting occurred in Marysville, south of Vancouver, BC.’</p>

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<p>The news I am watching said Marysville is 35 miles north of Seattle. Maybe because I live in the northeast ,but 35 miles does not seem like a long way in relation to a big city. </p>

<p>According to google maps, Vancouver, BC is 107 miles from Marysville. </p>

<p>As for the shooting, this is the 74th school shooting since Sandy Hook. We have obviously decided as a nation it is acceptable. </p>

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<p>^^ yes, we have. pretty soon, it won’t even make the news, and already I hear copy that says “only” one student was killed, and the shooter. Because the shooter isn’t someone’s child, someone’s hope, someone’s baby. The shooter isn’t a person, wasn’t in trouble, wasn’t in need of help…so his death doesn’t bother us as long as his family doesn’t do anything but apologize and be sorry for everyone else, and keep their grief to themselves. </p>

<p>Nevermind. I am completely unable to articulate how angry this okayness makes me. We practice secure in place drills twice a year and to hear 1st graders say to each other “this is really practice for when someone comes to shoot us” ought to make gun “rights” people cry. Because it makes us cry. Note our kids use “when” not “if”…</p>

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<p>It is a terrible tragedy. Two young lives lost, four wounded, and many others traumatized by this event.</p>

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<p>Marysville? Odd coincidence - the kid who stabbed some 20 people six months ago - that was in our town, Murrysville. </p>

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<p>How awful that they have not been able to identify the two girls who are critically injured.</p>

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<p>What I find so bewildering is the uproar over the government not doing enough to protect us against Ebola and people calling for all sorts of quarantines and banning travel and Congress wasted no time in holding hearings and raking over the coals governments employees and their response to Ebola - yet we can’t even get them to pass a law requiring backgrounds checks on gun purchasers. </p>

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<p>Right. We have a national freakout over Ebola, when the chances of any of us contracting it are infinitesimal. Yet we just shrug off the risk that we all face from gun violence. As you said, since this is the 74th school shooting since Sandy Hook, we have obviously decided as a nation it is acceptable.</p>

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<p>Our local paper runs constant updates, paywall is suspended for these stories:</p>

<p><a href=“http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/shooting-reported-at-marysville-pilchuck-high-school/”>http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/shooting-reported-at-marysville-pilchuck-high-school/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Marysville is pretty close to Seattle. Not far enough away to have it matter that much. Two young women have not been identified yet due to gunshots to the face. One is still in surgery and one is in critical condition in ICU. One young women dead. The 2 young men were both airlifted to Harborview and are reported to both be cousins of the shooter - one age 15 and one uncertain. A teacher ran to the shooter and grabbed him and apparently he shot himself - possibly accidentally - as she grabbed his arm.</p>

<p>The gun was reportedly a 40 cal Beretta </p>

<p>All the victims were shot in the face/head</p>

<p>The shooter had a “bad breakup” with his girl friend last week</p>