From Oxnard to Ilinois, students are dying

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Child homicide was a hate-crime

The 14-year-old boy who shot a classmate in the head at an Oxnard middle school is facing murder charges with gun and hate-crime enhancements. Prosecutors are also looking to try the boy as an adult.

Classmates said that Lawrence King, the 15-year old boy shot, sometimes dressed in "feminine attire," and that caused some friction with other boys at his school.

LA Times


Another campus, another shooting

And this tragic story about yet another calculated shooting at a college campus, this time Northern Illinois University. Apparently, the gunman was a former student.

Wasn't there supposed to be some reform following the Virginia Tech shootings in how administrators and staff deal with students with mental-health issues?

That's not to say this particular shooting could have been avoided. Some people do in fact, "just snap."

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