BREAKING>>Multiple people reportedly shot at Southern California high school

[mountaineer]

A characteristic that many, if not most, mass shooters share is the absence of a father. Not saying it's causative, just that it's not unusual.

[PeteS in CA]

A characteristic that many, if not most, mass shooters share is the absence of a father. Not saying it's causative, just that it's not unusual.

I grew up in a rural Central Valley county in the 1960s. It probably is not an exaggeration to say that a majority of households possessed guns, because many hunted. Before I received a shotgun there were five guns in my home (not counting my BB gun and air rifle). There were no mass shootings in that time, and murder wasn't very common either (with any weapon!). So people should be asking, "What changed?" Gun availability has become less easy, yet mass shootings have increased considerably.

Statistical risk may be predictive for a large population, but it is not predictive for a certain individual. That said, why do parents bring so much selfish risky @#$% into their children's lives?

[Smokin Joe]

Here. I was hunting and trapping by myself long before 15.
By then I am pretty sure I had my own 22 pistol, .45 pistol, .22 LR semi auto, and a 30/30 carbine.

Yeah, but we were 15 in the Paleozoic. This is much later, now, and times have changed.

[PeteS in CA]

Yeah, but we were 15 in the Paleozoic. This is much later, now, and times have changed.

  I grew up in the early Mesozoic, so I wasn't going there.

[Smokin Joe]

I grew up in the early Mesozoic, so I wasn't going there.

That still makes you from the age of the dinosaur....

[roamer_1]

Yeah, but we were 15 in the Paleozoic. This is much later, now, and times have changed.

Nope. My sons, similar. My eldest grandson(11) owns a .22 right now... with his 1st youngest brother (9) coming on fast, probably this birthday.

Now, none of those were bought by the kid at a retail outlet with paper. But they were/are owned, sure enough.
 

[Wingnut]

I grew up in the early Mesozoic, so I wasn't going there.

I never grew up.   I fired a 4-10 at 7, went to a 7-11 at 15, and pumped Ethel for 35 cents.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

NY Post:
The alleged gunman who killed two teens at Saugus High School in Los Angeles County and then turned the gun on himself has died from his self-inflicted bullet wound to the head, officials said Friday.

Nathaniel Berhow, 16, was pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m., local time, on Friday, a day and a half after the shooting on the grounds of the Santa Clarita high school, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said.

He died with his mother at his bedside, the department said.

Berhow, an experienced gunman, had first killed two classmates — 14-year-old Dominic Blackwell and 15-year-old Gracie Anne Muehlberger — and injured three others before firing his last bullet into his head and dropping his empty gun, police said. ...

Makes it seems he is Billy the Kid risen.  Not sure what the 'experience' meant.  I think maybe at using digital guns on video games?

Are you certain it said he fired the bullet into his head before he dropped the gun or was it the other way?

The statistics sadly will include this worthless murderer as one of the victims in the number killed in the mass shootings we hear about in the future.

He is not worthy of being in a hospital bed and should have died on the floor of a cell in the basement.

He chose not to give peace, but anarchy and death.  Let him suffer the same fate.

[Smokin Joe]

I never grew up.   I fired a 4-10 at 7, went to a 7-11 at 15, and pumped Ethel for 35 cents.

I fired a 10 gauge double barrel market hunting gun at 5 (wow!, I dumped 'em both simultaneously, and learned to tuck the stock in tight next time), was duck and deer hunting with my .410 at 9, and got my first whitetail at 11 with the same bolt action .410. I pumped ethyl when a dollar's worth would get you not only off the lot, but around for the weekend, and recall when a pack of Camels was $0.32....with tax.

We didn't have a 7-11 (not enough people who couldn't speak English).

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I never grew up.   I fired a 4-10 at 7, went to a 7-11 at 15, and pumped Ethel for 35 cents.

I do hope you meant Ethyl

[Wingnut]

I do hope you meant Ethyl

That was her sister or her mother, I forget!   :)

[sneakypete]

Multiple people reportedly shot at Southern California high school

Really? Did any of them hit it?

Where the HELL is the media getting their editors from these days,Bangladesh?

[PeteS in CA]

That still makes you from the age of the dinosaur....

[sneakypete]

@PeteS in CA

I have to admit,I can never see that race and not crack up. One of the funniest things I have ever seen.

[Smokin Joe]

Great stuff, that!