Thursday, September 14, 2017

Washington State School Shooting: Heroes Arise

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

The lone student arrived at school with death on his mind.  When he opened fire he injured three girls.  When his first gun jammed, a male student charged him, paying for his attempt to stop the gunman with his life - after being shot in the head by the assailant who had pulled out his second firearm.  Then, a custodian dived in, tackling the young killer, and holding him down until authorities arrived.

The location of the latest school school shooting was a high school in a very conservative area of the country, Freeman High School in Rockford, Washington, just south of Spokane.

The suspect had two firearms, a rifle and a handgun, on his body, firing randomly down a passageway.  The three students, aside from the fatality, who were shot are all in stable condition.

The gunman, Caleb Sharp, "had long been obsessed with past school shootings."

A witness, Michael Harper, the same student who told the AP about Harper's obsession with school shootings, said he saw Sharp with a duffel bag and that the suspect had brought notes to school in the beginning of the year, saying he might get killed or jailed.  Some students alerted counselors.

Harper said the suspect had many friends and was not bullied, calling him "nice and funny and weird" and a huge fan of the TV show "Breaking Bad."  Harper's comments contradicts the political narrative provided by Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich who said at a news conference, “It sounds like a case of a bullying type of situation.”

Knezovich blames bullying, not the individual who has been influenced negatively by the anger and rage of the existing leftist narrative that permeates all points of our lives.  Perhaps his next statement will blame the guns, as well.

Our prayers go out to the community, and the loved ones of the victim who was killed for doing the right thing.

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