Yesterday, there was another school shooting. What a world, right? This time it was a fourteen-year-old boy in Cleveland that rampaged through the halls of his Specialty High school pumping bullets in to students and teachers alike. This comes only seven months after 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho massacred 32 people and wounded many others in the Virginia Teck shooting.

The unnamed fourteen-year-old injured five people before killing himself. Witnesses say he entered the school with a gun in each hand and began to fire. News reports say he was unhappy about being suspended earlier in the week and other students from the school described the boy as ‘odd’.

I’m sure in the coming days there will be plenty Dateline specials and news reports about the shootings, almost as if there was a script to follow his fellow. Students will describe the boy as ‘quiet’ and a ‘loner’. It will be very easy to make this boy into the ‘boy next door’ that snapped, the shark in the water at your local school.

Stories like this make me wonder what kind of world am I growing up in that a fourteen -year old has it in his adolescent heart to kill. It’s scary to think that some one so young could be so troubled. It is also very sad that school shootings or young people killing young people have become such common news stories.
—Donny Lumpkins