Wyoming bow & arrow killings

dancepartner

This was posted in the DP forum.
"When I read about the bow & arrow shootings in Wyo, the teacher's shot in the head, no gun in the picture but a bow & arrow & knife, and the teacher (now dead) yells to the kids to flee. They do. Not that we ever had to deal with school shootings so this probably has something to do with it but my first thought was about how those handful of fleeing kids now have to live with the idea that had they stayed, maybe they could have done something. Shoved tables or threw chairs or books, tackle the animal. Don't know if it was girls or boys, (by college age, it's supposed to be young men) but we have become a fearful society and this tradegy reflects that. What it used to mean to become a man was something called honor. I don't fault those kids for fleeing. I'm not sure I even fault how society has come to coddle our youth or that living is now premeated by fear. Maybe nobody is at fault but I don't think we stand a chance if we all become wimps. I don't think my era's typical reaction whould have been to flee but it sure as hell would'nt have been even considered from every era of men that came before us."

I agree with this. Do you?

brianlux

Hard to say without more details. Maybe if the students hadn't run off more would have been injured or killed. But it's not like it was a gun. I would think someone could have done something to stop this craziness.

john roach

Someone who knows what they are doing with a bow can probably get shots off pretty goddamn quick. I think it might be a little short sighted to think of it as just a bow and arrows. And I can't even pretend to know how I would react in that situation.

DriftingByTheStorm

this whole thing is fucked.
Just read the details.

The shooter was the college professor's son.
The day before this, he had stabbed his father's live-in girlfriend to death with a knife.
Then, the next day, he shows up to his dad's class and shoots him in the head with a bow and arrow.
The father, with an arrow in his head, then wrestles with his son to allow the other (6 or so) students to escape.

When the police get there, they find the boy on the ground dying, having ***STABBED HIMSELF*** to the point of death.

Giant WHAT ***THE*** FUCK on this one.
???

chadwick

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

this whole thing is fucked.
Just read the details.

The shooter was the college professor's son.
The day before this, he had stabbed his father's live-in girlfriend to death with a knife.
Then, the next day, he shows up to his dad's class and shoots him in the head with a bow and arrow.
The father, with an arrow in his head, then wrestles with his son to allow the other (6 or so) students to escape.

When the police get there, they find the boy on the ground dying, having ***STABBED HIMSELF*** to the point of death.

Giant WHAT ***THE*** FUCK on this one.
???

holy fucking shit

josevolution

Yeah hole f'n crap maybe my idea of just living all alone in Nature is no so bad after all , fuck the humans ..

Cosmo

Wow. That is all kinds of fucked up.