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Only 40 days until the 10th Anniversary of Columbine, what Goth's refer to as their 'Judgement Day', and the killings have already begun!
Yes, the Goths are at it again!
Yes, the Goths are at it again!
Boy goes on school shooting rampage in Germany
German police have killed a 17-year-old gunman following his shooting spree at a school near Stuttgart.
16 people died during the attack at a technical high school in the town of Winnenden, a small town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Stuttgart.
Among the dead were hree teachers and 10 students.
Authorities have said the 17-year-old former student, Tim Kretschmer, walked into a classroom of the Albertville-Realschule Winnenden school, firing at random.
The suspect escaped by car, killing a worker at a nearby hospital as he fled the school, but was tracked by police and helicopters. The shooter killed anothr two people before he was killed in a shoot-out with authorities in a nearby town.
All schools in the area were immediately closed.
German police have killed a 17-year-old gunman following his shooting spree at a school near Stuttgart.
16 people died during the attack at a technical high school in the town of Winnenden, a small town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Stuttgart.
Among the dead were hree teachers and 10 students.
Authorities have said the 17-year-old former student, Tim Kretschmer, walked into a classroom of the Albertville-Realschule Winnenden school, firing at random.
The suspect escaped by car, killing a worker at a nearby hospital as he fled the school, but was tracked by police and helicopters. The shooter killed anothr two people before he was killed in a shoot-out with authorities in a nearby town.
All schools in the area were immediately closed.
Germany school shooting mirrors Columbine - 15 dead.
Columbine and other U.S. school shootings appear to have some overlap with the German school shooter who by one count killed 17 Wednesday, including himself.
These stories, by definition, are fast-moving and the facts are subject to change 180 degrees. As in Columbine, people give information to reporters they may not realize is incorrect, although it is quickly transmitted worldwide and forms lasting impressions.
Reporting out of Germany indicates 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer opened fire on his former Technical School, killing about 15 people there. The killings appear to have been mostly random. This randomness matches Columbine and other U.S. school shootings because the anger appears generalized. The shooters blame the bogeyman of "society" for their problems, and take it out on what is for them the most familiar symbol of society. Kretschmer, we are being told, had recently graduated from the school, but the campus may have remained a powerful symbol for him, and maybe what he believed was the source of his problems.
The New York Times quotes the state culture minister as saying that Kretschmer was “completely unremarkable." I'm not sure how the culture minister knew that, but I would argue that no one wants to be known as “completely unremarkable." That can be a source of anger.
The shootings began in the small town (27,000 according to New York Times) of Winnenden and continued into what appears to be another small town as the gunman fled. This also mirrors U.S. school shootings, which tend to take place in suburbs (Columbine) and small towns. In such locales, there are fewer places for (often disaffected) students to turn for help, self-esteem, and friendship if they are loners at school. They feel like losers through and through.
Columbine and other U.S. school shootings appear to have some overlap with the German school shooter who by one count killed 17 Wednesday, including himself.
These stories, by definition, are fast-moving and the facts are subject to change 180 degrees. As in Columbine, people give information to reporters they may not realize is incorrect, although it is quickly transmitted worldwide and forms lasting impressions.
Reporting out of Germany indicates 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer opened fire on his former Technical School, killing about 15 people there. The killings appear to have been mostly random. This randomness matches Columbine and other U.S. school shootings because the anger appears generalized. The shooters blame the bogeyman of "society" for their problems, and take it out on what is for them the most familiar symbol of society. Kretschmer, we are being told, had recently graduated from the school, but the campus may have remained a powerful symbol for him, and maybe what he believed was the source of his problems.
The New York Times quotes the state culture minister as saying that Kretschmer was “completely unremarkable." I'm not sure how the culture minister knew that, but I would argue that no one wants to be known as “completely unremarkable." That can be a source of anger.
The shootings began in the small town (27,000 according to New York Times) of Winnenden and continued into what appears to be another small town as the gunman fled. This also mirrors U.S. school shootings, which tend to take place in suburbs (Columbine) and small towns. In such locales, there are fewer places for (often disaffected) students to turn for help, self-esteem, and friendship if they are loners at school. They feel like losers through and through.
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