School shooting in Atlanta?

[Deleted]

WTH. School just started and we're already doing this again?

This has got to stop.

[TheSeaward]

I wonder if it is gang related, there are a lot of gang problems in Atlanta

[BAMFMrsB]

Aug 20, 2013 13:20:39 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

I wonder if it is gang related, there are a lot of gang problems in Atlanta

It was an elementary school

www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/shooter-arrested-at-dekalb-elementary-school/nZTSd/

I have a feeling he was just effing crazy.

[Deleted]

Aug 20, 2013 13:39:29 GMT -5 BAMFMrsB said:

Aug 20, 2013 13:20:39 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

I wonder if it is gang related, there are a lot of gang problems in Atlanta

It was an elementary school

www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/shooter-arrested-at-dekalb-elementary-school/nZTSd/

I have a feeling he was just effing crazy.

He could be.

He could also be in a gang.

I just hope this shit stops

[calledout]

Holy shit. He walked into the school with an AK-47??!? God that is fucked up.

[TheSeaward]

Aug 20, 2013 13:41:04 GMT -5 @guernica said:

Aug 20, 2013 13:39:29 GMT -5 BAMFMrsB said:

It was an elementary school

www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/shooter-arrested-at-dekalb-elementary-school/nZTSd/

I have a feeling he was just effing crazy.

He could be.

He could also be in a gang.

I just hope this shit stops

elementary school or not, there is a LOT of gang activity in these parts. 

[eddy]

This makes sending my baby to K tomorrow so much easier.

I am not going to lie I checked out the lay of the land yesterday for the K room. I liked that there was an outside, locked, access door right by his room. A quick escape if they ever needed it.

And how fucked up that my mind when there, huh?

I can't even with these fucking guns anymore.

[TheSeaward]

Aug 20, 2013 13:47:31 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Aug 20, 2013 13:46:04 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

elementary school or not, there is a LOT of gang activity in these parts. 

omg 

The whole fucking gun culture is the problem, not gangs. 

But yes, it must be gangs. 

Just like Newtown. Or Columbine. JFC.

what are you getting your panties in a bunch about, there IS a lot of gang activity around here

[tisevee]

I suspect he was trying to get someone's attention. He kept demanding to speak to a certain radio/news station and when detained by police he came peacefully.

Odd to say but I think he was trying to get someones attention, not wound/harm childen.

This is still horrific though. School just started last week for us. I wish so much I could home school. This has to stop some how.

[Alyssa]

Dressed in black with an AK and he gave up peacefully?

[bania]

WTF??

eddy I know that's surreal to be doing a mental cross check of possible escape routes incase of fire or you know, psycho gunmen.

[tisevee]

Aug 20, 2013 13:58:21 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

Dressed in black with an AK and he gave up peacefully?

This is why I think he was trying to scare/get someone's attention but not harm. I mean I don't know the guy personally. Nor am I a criminal dprofiler. I'm just saying he came in dresses in all black, with a very serious weapon demanding to speak to some news/radio station but when confronted by police he gave up and came peacefully. I would think that if he intended to harm he would have fired back at police.

[snickers]

That is so messed up.

[frlcb]

Aug 20, 2013 13:54:52 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

Aug 20, 2013 13:47:31 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

omg 

The whole fucking gun culture is the problem, not gangs. 

But yes, it must be gangs. 

Just like Newtown. Or Columbine. JFC.

what are you getting your panties in a bunch about, there IS a lot of gang activity around here

where do you live that you come across a lot of gang activity in atlanta? i am surprised by this. sure there are gangs, but i wouldn't say that there are gang members running rampant around the city shooting people.

[TheSeaward]

Aug 20, 2013 14:40:55 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Aug 20, 2013 13:54:52 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

what are you getting your panties in a bunch about, there IS a lot of gang activity around here

where do you live that you come across a lot of gang activity in atlanta? i am surprised by this. sure there are gangs, but i wouldn't say that there are gang members running rampant around the city shooting people.

there are pockets all over the metro area that are not safe anymore due to gangs
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[frlcb]

Aug 20, 2013 14:42:57 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

Aug 20, 2013 14:40:55 GMT -5 frlcb said:

where do you live that you come across a lot of gang activity in atlanta? i am surprised by this. sure there are gangs, but i wouldn't say that there are gang members running rampant around the city shooting people.

there are pockets all over the metro area that are not safe anymore due to gangs

where? i seriously do not hear about this ever, and i live in atlanta.

[TheSeaward]

Aug 20, 2013 14:48:17 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Aug 20, 2013 14:42:57 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

there are pockets all over the metro area that are not safe anymore due to gangs

where? i seriously do not hear about this ever, and i live in atlanta.

where in Atlanta do you live?
where I live (cobb county) there has been a lot of recent gang activity

[ElizabethBennet]

I'm serious when I say that I am concerned about having to send D to school in the future.

You should feel comfortable sending your kid off to kindergarten. It's a sick world when not even that is safe.

[frlcb]

Aug 20, 2013 14:50:02 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

Aug 20, 2013 14:48:17 GMT -5 frlcb said:

where? i seriously do not hear about this ever, and i live in atlanta.

where in Atlanta do you live?
where I live (cobb county) there has been a lot of recent gang activity

Okay, well Cobb County isn't Atlanta, it's Marietta. I live in Atlanta, ITP. 

[TheSeaward]

Aug 20, 2013 14:50:51 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Aug 20, 2013 14:50:02 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

where in Atlanta do you live?
where I live (cobb county) there has been a lot of recent gang activity

Okay, well Cobb County isn't Atlanta, it's Marietta. I live in Atlanta, ITP. 

i said metro area
and I know there are parts of atlanta, ITP that are not safe (eg: hollowell pkwy)

[TheSeaward]

Aug 20, 2013 14:50:51 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Aug 20, 2013 14:50:02 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

where in Atlanta do you live?
where I live (cobb county) there has been a lot of recent gang activity

Okay, well Cobb County isn't Atlanta, it's Marietta. I live in Atlanta, ITP. 

not all of cobb is marietta.  I happen to live in marietta, but I know there has been gang activity in smyrna and mableton as well as the part of cobb that is actually an atlanta address (cumberland mall area)

look I am not going to split hairs or argue with you here.  gang violence is a big problem in the Atlanta metro area, you are lucky you live in a safe area.  but the truth is there are a lot of elementary schools that are in not so good areas all over the metro

[frlcb]

Aug 20, 2013 14:55:00 GMT -5 TheSeaward said:

Aug 20, 2013 14:50:51 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Okay, well Cobb County isn't Atlanta, it's Marietta. I live in Atlanta, ITP. 

not all of cobb is marietta.  I happen to live in marietta, but I know there has been gang activity in smyrna and mableton as well as the part of cobb that is actually an atlanta address (cumberland mall area)

look I am not going to split hairs or argue with you here.  gang violence is a big problem in the Atlanta metro area, you are lucky you live in a safe area.  but the truth is there are a lot of elementary schools that are in not so good areas all over the metro

And i would bet that there are more schools in good areas than in bad. Regardless I do not think that Atlanta has such a bad gang problem that upon hearing there is a school shooting the first thought in anyone's minds should be gangs.