A 17-year-old suspect opened fire in a small-town Iowa high school on Thursday morning according to local law enforcement officials in the city of Perry, killing a sixth grader and leaving five others wounded. Folks, this kind of horror show has to stop. No, dear liberal, I’m not talking about gun control, because honestly, that does nothing. We have tons of gun laws on the books all over the country and it hasn’t done anything. Bans don’t work either. Bad guys get guns on the black market. You only create a bigger one by making them illegal.
No, the best way we can help prevent these incidents is through returning to Christian values in our culture and normalize prayer and Bible reading in the home and at school. Do this, plus overhaul the health care system for mental issues and I think you’ll see less of these shootings happening.
via Newsmax:
The suspect died of what investigators believe is a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and at least one of the victims is a school administrator, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity.
Why is it these monsters always kill themselves? I get this was a 17-year-old, but it seems like anytime there’s a mass shooting, the suspect tries to kill themselves, regardless of age? Is it because they lack a backbone and don’t want to take responsibility for their actions? If you have a death wish, why hurt innocent people and take them with you?
Perry has about 8,000 residents and is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Des Moines, on the edge of the state capital’s metropolitan area. It is home to a large pork-processing plant, and low-slung, single story homes spread among trees now shorn of their leaves by winter. The high school and middle school are connected, sitting on the east edge of town.
High school senior Ava Augustus said she was in a counselor’s office, waiting for hers to arrive, when she heard three shots. She and other people barricaded the door, preparing to throw things if necessary, with a window being too small for an escape.
This was the right course of action to take given the limited options available for Augustus and others in the facility at the time. I’m a firm believer in equipping teachers and staff with firearms or some kind of weapons that can be used to defend themselves and their students from crazed, evil lunatics. Solid training, which includes not only learning how to properly use the weapon, but the right mindset for self-defense, would go a long, long way toward discouraging these acts of violence. If shooters know they can die before even getting a shot off, they might think twice about engaging in this sort of vile behavior.
“And then we hear ‘He’s down. You can go out,’” Augustus stated as tears ran down her face. ”And I run and you can just see glass everywhere, blood on the floor. I get to my car and they’re taking a girl out of the auditorium who had been shot in her leg.”
Three gunshot victims were taken by ambulance to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, a spokesperson for its health system said. Some other patients were transported to a second hospital in Des Moines, a spokesperson for MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center confirmed, declining to comment on the number of patients or their statuses.
Vigils were planned Thursday evening at a park and a local church. A post on the high school’s Facebook page said it would be closed Friday, with counseling services planned at the public library Friday and Saturday.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy commented on the shooting, saying it is a sign of “psychological sickness” in the United States. Fellow presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated he believes that mass shootings and acts of gun violence are a local, state issue, not something that the federal government should be involved with.
And that would be an accurate conclusion to reach, given the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.
At the end of the day, this is not a political problem that has a political solution. It’s a mental, emotional, deeply spiritual problem and thus, priests, pastors, and psychologists are far better equipped to deal with these issues than some government bureaucrat who is hoping to capitalize off of a tragedy in order to win elections.
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