School Shooting Plot Thwarted in Arizona

The NRA hasn’t even made their ‘official’ response to last week’s shooting in Newton, but an arrest was made in Arizona today. The person was planning on shooting all her classmates before turning the gun on herself. Had it not been for the great work by authorities in Arizona, with a lot of help from police in Toronto, there could have been another major shooting in the US much sooner than we had feared.

This is why the Obama and Biden need to push for bans not only on assault weapons, but do background checks on everyone to make sure these guns are not going to be around or even near someone who is mentally unstable. This is why we can’t wait because more waiting will lead to more shootings and more death.

Here’s an interesting fact: in 2004 when Janet Jackson ‘accidently’ flashed her boob on nationwide TV during a Superbowl halftime show, Congress convened a special hearing ten days after the incident to make sure something like that never happened again.

Do you guys think it will take more or less than 10 days for congress to convene following the massacre in Newton? Since I doubt Congress will be in office on Christmas Eve, which will be 10 days after the shooting, my guess is longer. Much longer.

Peter

Toronto Police Help Thwart Arizona School Shooting Plot

Authorities in Arizona, with the help of Toronto police, have arrested a 16-year-old high school girl who they say was plotting to gun down her classmates and then kill herself.

The girl, who lives in Mesa, Ariz., about 32 kilometres east of Phoenix, is accused of posting a threat on a YouTube channel, saying, “I now literally have a plan of seriously hurting … killing … murdering people in my high school.”

The YouTube channel is owned by a transgender community in Toronto, which notified Toronto police. They tracked the poster to Arizona and contacted the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday night.

Detectives visited the girl’s family home, where she admitted in front of her parents to posting the threat.

Police seized two computers and also found three handguns in the home. The weapons were released to the girl’s father for safe-keeping.

The girl faces one count of computer tampering and one count of threatening and intimidating.

Post alludes to Newtown massacre

In the YouTube post, the girl alludes to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., saying that she had planned her attack well before last week’s deadly shooting.

The girl, who also serves as a student teacher at Mesa’s Red Mountain High School, wrote in the post, “I WORK at the high school as a student teacher basically … which is why no one can find out about me somewhat accidentally planning to blow up the school. (and yes…it would be super easy…).”

The girl’s parents told police that she has a history of mental health issues and had been seen by a psychiatrist. She had recently been asking where the guns were being kept in the house, they said.

Police said the girl admitted she was afraid she would really carry out the plans detailed in the post. She told them she had thought about killing for a while and planned to “cut the wires to the security carts” on campus to slow down response time during an explosion, and to shoot people from the other side of a fence.

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