Apalachee High School shooting leaves 4 dead, 9 injured

Yesterday, two students and two teachers were shot and killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. The two teachers killed were Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53. 14-year-olds Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo were also among the dead.

The shooter has been identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray, who has been charged as an adult. Authorities say Gray was armed with an ‘AR-platform-style weapon’.

As of the time I am writing this, no motive has been given for the shooting, and it’s unclear where Gray obtained the gun.

Gray surrendered to school resource officers as soon as he was confronted.

Law enforcement had a previous encounter with Gray in 2023. At that time, he was interviewed by both police and the FBI for an alleged shooting threat against the school. The suspect was believed to have posted a picture of an ‘AR-platform-style weapon’ on Instagram along with a threat to commit a school shooting.

The suspect’s father told investigators he owned some hunting rifles, but the suspect had no unsupervised access to them. The FBI later added that there was no cause for arrest.

President Biden spoke on the shooting by saying…

Students across the country are learning how to duck and cover instead of how to read and write. We cannot continue to accept this as normal.

Meanwhile, Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp gave out the usual thoughts and prayers…

This is the same Brian Kemp who signed legislation that allows permitless carry of a concealed handgun in Georgia. The Same Brian Kemp who pointed a gun at a teenager in his 2018 campaign ad.

And people still wonder why the US is the only country where this happens regularly.

As usual, which is a phrase that should never be used when talking about a school shooting, yet here we are, as more information becomes public, the picture will become clearer. It won’t make any sense, but it will be clearer.

In the meantime, I’d like to talk about where Gray supposedly got the ‘AR-platform-style weapon’ used in the shooting. Gray’s father allegedly said that Gray didn’t have unsupervised access to the ‘hunting rifles’. That doesn’t necessarily mean they had been secured in any meaningful way.

For all we know, the hunting rifles could have been stored in the impenetrable stronghold that is a bedroom closet. Or they could have been by the parents’ bedside, as many of these gun nerds are just itching for the opportunity to shoot someone.

Another thing is if the ‘AR-platform-style weapon’ was one of dear old dad’s hunting rifles, that seems to me that he’s not really a hunter but rather someone who just wants to kill something. Let’s never forget that ‘AR-platform-style weapons’ are based on military firearms and are designed to do the most internal damage possible to their targets.

Something else I’d like to address is the school resource officers who apprehended Gray. While they did prevent more lives from being lost, lives were still lost. I’m not blaming the SROs for what happened, but their presence doesn’t guarantee the prevention of a school shooting, and the studies agree.

Lastly, it wouldn’t be a school shooting without the obligatory community member who thought ‘it couldn’t happen here’.

A police officer, said, “Growing up in this area, you don’t expect things like that to happen.”

This is precisely where things like this happen. A small town in a state with lax gun laws where ‘responsible gun owners™’ treat their lethal firearms like fashion accessories is the place where these shootings continue to happen.

The quickest and most absolute way to end school shootings is to get rid of the gun. ‘AR-platform-style weapons’ need to be banned from civilian use, as no civilian needs one. And legislation needs to be passed that holds gun owners responsible if their gun is used in a school shooting.

Maybe if we throw a few more of these Yosemite Sam-acting assclowns in jail, they’ll start to lock up their toys.

(Sources)

• Two students, two teachers killed in shooting at Georgia high school; 14-year-old charged as an adult
• Apalachee High School Shooting: Reactions to shooting from White House, state leaders etc
• Georgia cops identify school shooter as 14-year-old Colt Gray who will be tried as an adult after killing four
• A 14-year-old student fatally shot 4 people in a rampage at a Georgia high school, officials say
• Officials identify victims in Georgia high school shooting, say AR platform-style weapon used