6 killed in a shooting gets our attention

[Omaha Steve]

Almost 40 die on the job in a week, and nobody raises an eyebrow. One of the deaths was here in Omaha. A shooting by a student of Assistant Principal Vicki Kaspar. One other injured. The shooter missed the janitor.

In another case, a teachers aide saved a very special student while giving their own life.

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OS

[spanone]

1. 40,000 die in car accidents a year.....

[sharesunited]

13. Accidents being the operative word.

[Omaha Steve]

16. 6 of these workers were killed by gunfire too

And Rep. Giffords was shot while performing a job related duty.

[NNN0LHI]

2. An assassination attempt on a sitting US Congresswoman is a pretty unique event

Something that doesn't happen every day.

Shootings we have every day. At least around here.

Don

[LWolf]

8. School employees dying to save students...common in your area, too? nt

[NNN0LHI]

12. No, we don't have exactly that shooting here every day

But there are shootings of some kind in and around Chicago every day.

Attempted political assassinations not so much.

Capisce?

Don

[wtmusic]

3. Politically-motivated killings are going to hit a nerve here

But you're correct :thumbsup:

[Rex]

4. Yes and none of those are from political assassinations.

Do you have a point, because a big one was made yesterday.

[Lifelong Protester]

5. I hear ya, OS, it's an epidemic. Violence is seen as the answer

to every problem.

We need to take a stand on ALL VIOLENCE and the questions of mental health care for all who need it. Clearly in all of the shootings that I have read about there is a grave component of mental health problems. If we had health care for all, ...?? One can only imagine. And sorry, Boehner, no one strolls into an emergency room and gets treated for a mental health issue, so don't give me that crap that everyone can take advantage of the "best health care" out there.

[SweetieD]

6. People are killed every day in this country.

This got people's attention because of the political nature of the attack.

[valerief]

7. Right. I think about how the U.S. murders innocents in the Middle East every day, too.

"One murder a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow." --M. Verdoux

But Giffords was one of the privileged people. She counts. The common rabble (us) do not. However, the right to assemble is an important consideration here, too, so it's not just about one of the privileged being shot.

[DainBramaged]

9. 40 die on the job, and they get not a sentence written anywhere

:cry:

[malaise]

10. All deserve attention

but this is the first assassination attempt on a Congressperson in decades.

[lonestarnot]

11. We suck ass!

K & R!

[Still a Democrat]

14. The gun culture

it aint pretty.

[underseasurveyor]

15. It is a sorry and sad state of afairs I agree.

Guilty as charged.

[niyad]

17. . . .

[GSLevel9]

18. And how many war casualties?