<p>He was on the homecoming court last week</p>
<p>Closing the background check loopholes in on our state ballot this week</p>
<p>Marysville is too far from Seattle to be a suburb, although it could be considered a suburb of Everett.
It may just be 35 miles, but it takes an hour & 1/2 at least to drive to Marysville on a good day, not at rush hour.
I’ve driven north to Bellingham from Seattle and not gotten over 20mph until Sedro-Woolley.
Pretty large school also for the region, city schools are 1000 to 1500, Marysville Pilchuck was 2533 four years ago, I expect it is more crowded now.
( they’ve updated wiki to include the shooting already.)
But in any case very sad, and timely as we have an upcoming election addressing gun control issues.</p>
<p>It isn’t a suburb of Seattle but it isn’t half way to Canada either. It’s a “Seattle Area school” to the rest of the nation who barely know where Seattle is.</p>
<p>Background checks are not the answer.</p>
<p>Not to this particular tragedy, most likely, but they are the answer to preventing domestic abusers from buying guns at gun shows.</p>
<p>The number of people who fail background checks at fire arms dealers in our state is staggering to me. Many are people who have attempted to buy a fire arm who really shouldn’t have them.</p>
<p><a href=“http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024758608_backgrounddenialsxml.html”>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024758608_backgrounddenialsxml.html</a></p>
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No, it’s because this is a national and even international story and Seattle is easily the closest reference point that people outside of that local area are most likely to know. Compared to NYC 3,000 miles away, Marysville is quite close to Seattle.</p>
<p>I could make a request to keep gun politics out of this thread, but I suspect that is hopeless. Just be sure to keep it civil or we will have to close the thread. Thanks! - FC</p>
<p>It’s sad that wanting to keep our kids safe–whether from Ebola or random violence–isn’t something we can all agree on. :(</p>
<p>There’s a woman I do volunteer work with once a week who drives a school bus in one of our neighboring school districts. A couple of months ago, she came in after her run, telling us, “It was one of those days… where I had to pull the bus over and search a kindergartner because a kid sitting next to him said he told him he had a gun.” The school district has a whole protocol for what bus drivers have to do if there is any talk of anyone having a gun. This is pathetic… she only drives kindergartners!</p>
<p>So I asked her, “How often does something like this happen? And when do you call the police?” She said last year, some 1st grader was at the bus stop bragging to other kids he had a gun, so someone called the police. The police came and the kid gave up the gun to the police, and after some questioning, was allowed to go to school. However, the police FAILED TO CHECK THE REST OF HIS BELONGINGS, where he had another gun, which he ended up taking to school. So the horrible lesson learned is, check all of their belongings. This is not some dirt-poor south Chicago school; it is very much a solid middle-to-upper class school district. </p>
<p>Why, oh why, on earth do we even need to have conversations about whether or not someone checked ALL of a kid’s belongings, in case a 1st grader has more than one gun? I hope these parents/guardians, etc. are shamed to death. I wish we could post their names in a newspaper.</p>
<p>I’ve driven north to Bellingham from Seattle and not gotten over 20mph until Sedro-Woolley.???</p>
<p>S-W isn’t on I5, how are you going? </p>
<p>I’d consider Marysville a far northern suburb; it never took me more than 30 minutes to get to Seattle from there. </p>
<p>@Sally – I think the country does agree that school shootings are not acceptable, and keeping our children and students safe is important. Nobody thinks this is okay. Like all super-complicated issues, the controversy starts when we try to even have the conversation, or try to agree on measures that would be effective. We can’t break it down enough to get movement, gov’t is ineffective on the simplest issues let alone this, and we throw up our hands and watch tv instead. Shake our heads. Have a vigil. Share a headline or talk on internet forums. But next week it will be supplanted by another headline.</p>
<p>Imagine if some political extremist group, or terrorist cell, or relgious fanatics were perpetrating this as a crime spree. Wouldn’t we make a solution a priority? But we literally don’t know what would work, and don’t know what to try. We tell ourselves it can’t be fixed . So we cross our fingers again. </p>
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<p>who doesn’t agree that kids should be kept safe?</p>
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<p>Well, Honey Boo Boo’s mom for one; another pseudo-parent who has the gall to ‘date’ someone (meaning, obviously bringing the guy into her home) who just spent time in jail for molesting a relative. </p>
<p><a href=“MSN”>http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/tlc-cancels-‘here-comes-honey-boo-boo’-in-wake-of-child-molestation-scandal/ar-BBaWrqz</a></p>
<p>Coming out that two of the students shot (the boys) were the shooter’s cousins. Unimaginably sad. </p>
<p>I could have said the * exit* for Sedro Woolley, I suppose.( Ive been going over 20 more often than I-5 lately)</p>
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<p>In any case by making checks required for gun shows & the Internet, I believe it should influence buyers.</p>
<p>They recently published the name of the second boy who was shot so I looked up his facebook. It wouldn’t surprise me if this kid had something to do with the fight that the shooter had at school last week. His page is nothing but twisted street fighting videos. It is very disturbing stuff - even without clicking on the details. I guess I have been living under a rock because I didn’t know that this subculture was out there. I have no words for how a 14 year old has a public fb page like this.</p>
<p>If this victim’s personality and behavior are at all reflected there, the happenings of today become more imaginable.</p>