"Mountain of digital evidence" suggests Michigan high school shooting was planned, prosecutors say. The alleged shooter, who is being charged as an adult, faces 24 charges including one count of terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. Karen McDonald, the Oakland County prosecutor, said charging the teen as an adult "is necessary to achieve justice and protect the public."
"What about all the children who ran screaming, hiding under desks? What about all the children at home right now who can't eat, can't sleep, and can't imagine a world where they could ever step foot back in that school? Those are victims too," McDonald said. (CBS NEWS)
In the 1950s in the city of Pittsburgh, every Monday, rain or shine or snow the Air Raid Sirens would blast. This sounding the alarm, just in case the Russians launched a surprise attack, was a loud long resonating bit of noise, but we in Pittsburgh understood that if a nuclear bomb were to fall, we all would surely have enough time to find a fallout shelter and whether that storm! Monday’s at NOON, sirens, look up in the sky (just in case), and know in about three minutes or a sequence of three loud blasts of noise all would be well, and World War Three was canceled. But just to make certain that American school kids in Pittsburgh were safe during a surprise attack, we had something called a RETENTION DRILL. Yep, it was not a Fire Drill, (because with Fire Drills, our Principal would announce on the Loud Speaker, that in a few minutes the bell would ring, and we all would line up and as our Librarian would remind us, when the hands go up those of the teacher, leading us to safety, our mouth goes shut.) The RETENTION DRILL would not be announced (remember the Russians were going to sneak attack us), and the RETENTION DRILL alarm was the most INSIDIOUS DECIBEL of SOUND a child could hear. When the RETENTION SIREN rang, I remember to this day wanting to pee in my pants, flashes of my family falling in my brain, and my heart racing…I mean, MAYBE this time the Third World War was real. If we were too late to make it into the hallway, we had to hide under our desks. And sometimes there were not enough desks!
I still recall the ABSOLUTE FEAR, of the RETENTION SIREN. For the life of me, I cannot even FATHOM the ANGST, ANXIETY, HORRIFYING, PUNCH IN THE GUT, MALICIOUS STENCH OF DEATH that must linger in the hearts and souls of students in ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOLS in America over the past 5 decades. At least the nations who have an ARSENAL of Nuclear Weapons, seem to have more common sense in using those weapons, or NOT, THAN does a nation like America, which seems careless, carefree, not concerned!
