REDBY, Minn. Mar 22, 2005  The suspect in the worst U.S. school shooting since Columbine smiled and waved as he gunned down five students, a teacher and a guard, asking one of his victims whether he believed in God, witnesses said. The teen’s grandfather and his grandfather’s wife also were found dead, and the boy killed himself.
Some of the victims were shot at close range, medical officials said.
Reggie Graves, a student at Red Lake High School, said he was watching a movie about Shakespeare in class Monday when he heard the gunman blast his way past the metal detector at the school’s entrance, where an unarmed guard was killed.
Then, in a nearby classroom, he heard the gunman say something to his friend Ryan. “He asked Ryan if he believed in God,” Graves said. “And then he shot him.” (more…)
My hope is that we do not get so used to hearing about these types of situations that we just get numb to it. All I am going to do with this case is wait and see just how the media is going to portray this student: either as a gun-toting “white guy” (by the way, he was American Indian who may have looked white)–underling their case against “…the right to bear arms”, or are they just going to play it down in about a week because he is non-white.
Weather we want to admit it or not y’all, white people do get a bad rap when cases like this arise. Murders can go on for weeks in da’ hood and we will barely see the local news covering it while one white guy that goes buck-wild gets all the national coverage.
