Here's a local news link to the story.

http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/

This was the first one that popped up on Google news for me.

Sorry this happened in your neighborhood.

Thankfully I was at work miles away when it happened otherwise I might have been pretty scared. There's also a link to a youtube video some guy took of the guy shooting his gun but for some reason I can't get it to work on my computer. It works on my phone but it's too small to see anything.

/sigh.. what the heck is going on in this country? People are going nuts... in droves

Tomorrow I have a Christmas party at the paper. Guess scanner and gear are coming.

Hell f a statement, I know.

"On Friday, the same day as the shooting massacre in Newton, police also arrested an 18-year-old high school student in Oklahoma for allegedly plotting an attack at a school."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/15/okla-teen-arrested-in-school-shooting-plot/1771497/

This plot was pretty disturbing, the guy was going to lure as many students as he could into the school auditorium, and then chain lock the exit doors so no one could escape, and then start a killing spree with guns. The teen had been studying the columbine shooting apparently for inspiration.

I'm starting to think this 2012 supposed end of world business that has been widely reported on in the media is bringing the crazies out in force.

Thank God, thank God, thank God it turned out to be a false alarm for now. A mother called the school to say her estranged husband told her on the phone that he was coming to school with a gun to kill their two kids. Turns out he was still in Texas or someplace equally far from California, but while they were finding that out, cops tore over to the school.

I hope to God the cops here got the cops in Texas to ream him a new one -- er -- fully investigate him.

>shudder<

Hekate

Nothing against you personally for saying what I quoted. At all.

Consider yourself successfully terrorized.

We need the kind of change that does not come quickly. I've been pointing this out for a while now, but I'm just a 1200-post nobody. Now that Morgan Freeman has chimed in with these same points, maybe we can get busy. There is definitely effective action you can take today... as in immediately.

I don't want to live in the sort of world we are making and I don't think you do, either. Fear culture sucks.

http://twitter.com/Media371/status/280143262310883332/photo/1

FYI, I lost my father this week (not something you would know). I have a young son who would accompany me shopping. I've had about as much loss as I can handle imagining right now. With my own grief, the images of those poor babies in CT and the Oregon mall shooting swirling around in my mind, I just can't right now. So yeah, the terrorists have won this battle.

the more likely it is that another event will quickly follow. Right after 9/11, my company hired this man, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, to train us (Senior HR execs) in how to recognize situations that could blow up, either literally or figuratively, and this was the key lesson he taught us. Years ago, he used to be on all the cable news shows after these shootings, a lot like Clint van Zandt et al, and made a conscious decision to stop that practice as he believed it added to the likelihood that another mass casualty event would follow.