An 11-Year-Old South Carolina Girl Fatally Shot Herself Because of Bullying at School
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She shot herself in the head with it
She shot herself in the head with it
STILL sounds like a School and parenting problem !
Having her own gun facilitated her killing herself. May have even given her the idea.
twice in my life I have witnessed a simple gun give the criminals a new idea
ya see, their first idea was to rob me.... their new idea? RUN AWAY
seems me having a gun made them smarter as well 
So when you look at a gun your mind goes blank. That's hilarious.
The gun doesn't create anything. It doesn't have a mind. That doesn't mean that the gun doesnt cause thoughts to emerge.
I cant waste any more time with you.
The gun doesn't create anything.
guns do a great job of creating fear, and as a bonus, they also create holes in criminals
that is why, all enemies, foreign a domestic are afraid of our second amendment
That doesn't mean that the gun doesnt cause thoughts to emerge.
Thoughts are from a HUMAN.....not the object. oooooo.....pick me......pick me.....the gun says grinning like a Cheshire cat !
Holy Fucking Cow ......Talk about STRETCHING IT !
I cant waste any more time with you.
you are wasting your time no matter what, or who.
we will be keeping our guns, our country, and all of our stuff in general as result.
Cheers
Do you blame the vehicle that mowed down people, or the driver?
The driver.
But that question made me think of something.
Many new vehicles have automatic Breaking systems. Would that stop a car from ramming into a crowd ?
Maybe someday some stupid terrorist will find out by accidentally choosing one of those vehicles.
That would be nice ...Terrorists BUSTED and NO injuries !
Of course.
Number count digging for the article now ?
Fortunately, I dont know what the hell you are talking about.
If I was suicidal it might.
An 11 year old might need a stove to cook herself lunch if she was home alone. She would be required to be very careful in using it.
She doesnt need a gun and it can be used impulsively, and probably was.
She doesnt need a gun and it can be used impulsively, and probably was.
As are ropes or curtains or belts or knives or pills or a whole kit of other things around the hiuse that sge could have used.
STILL sounds like a School and parenting problem !
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Of course, the gun had nothing to do with it. Anyone who'd connect a gun with a gunshot is crazy, right?
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Stop blaming GUNS for HUMAN actions.
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Okay, when you stop giving stupid human gun owners a free pass.
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Do you blame the vehicle that mowed down people, or the driver?
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Are vehicles made for the purpose of killing people?
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How do so many kids get shot by others in Chicago? Do you blame the illegal gun there?
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Yes.
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Are vehicles made for the purpose of killing people?
Fallacious reasoning. Guns are not made for the purpose of killing people either.
Guns are not made for the purpose of killing people either.
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That ridiculous claim always makes me laugh. Thanks for giving it to me.
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Hunting My father gave me a 22 long rifle for my 10 birthday.
Did he allow you free access to it any time you felt like it?
Guns are not made for the purpose of killing people either.
I'd say some are.
Why was a gun even developed ?
My understanding of guns is that they are designed mainly for killing something, deer, rabbit, elk, bear. In fact aren't some guns even specifically developed for killing specific creatures.
And certainly army guns had killing humans in mind during their development, Bullets as well.
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I am not anti gun.
I just disagreed with that statement.
Look up the definition of a gun. I'll wait.
The purpose of a gun is to discharge a projectile or other material. That's it. Nothing more. What you do with the gun, and how you use the projectile is a different matter. If you say a certain bullet is designed to kill, I will agree. But the gun only discharges the projectile.
My understanding of guns is that they are designed mainly for killing
Guns are no more designed mainly for killing that cars are. Both can and are used to kill.
It is irrational to assign blame to ANY inanimate object for killing.
But the gun only discharges the projectile.
true.
Guns were developed long ago, mainly for hunting. That is killing. Yes guns shoot a projectile for a reason. Guns were developed to fill that need.
These days that need may not be the number one reason guns are even used. Shooting at inanimate objects is probably more likely.
It is irrational to assign blame to ANY inanimate object for killing.
I agree. I'm not.
What does an 11 year old girl need her own gun for
I think it's fine for an 11 year old to have their own gun but she should only have access to it in the presence of an adult. If I had a child who was being bullied and was taking it to heart I'd make doubly sure the guns were secured.
Lol, see, this is why talking to a gun nut is pointless, they won't even admit what guns are for!
Guns are killing instruments, nuts, and handguns are specifically designed to kill other humans at close range. If you can't even admit to these painfully obvious truths, you truly are nuts, and your opinions are worthless.
Lol, see, this is why talking to a gun nut is pointless, they won't even admit what guns are for!
Aint that the truth! First they tell us that the only solution to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with one and then no, no they're not for killing anyone. "We just like to target practice." Thank goodness for their complete lack of self-awareness,eh?
The purpose of a gun is to discharge a projectile or other material. That's it. Nothing more.
Merry Christmas!!!
Yer killin' me with laughter here, Bruce. But thanks for the earlier Christmas presents.
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In Chicago, it's like shooting fish in a barrel! 
And certainly army guns had killing humans in mind during their development
And just as certainly, the weapon used in the murders today will be one of those kinds of weapons.
All ridiculous rationalizations but sure, i can play along:
How many road trips did you drive your gun on?
How many rounds can your car hold for target practice?
Has your gun got decent passing power?
What caliber is you car? Does it have good hitting power?
What kind of gas mileage do you get out of your gun?
How big is the magazine in your car? I only ask because we might want to reduce the number of rounds in your car for everyone's safety. You know ..... too many rounds in a car can be dangerous.
Anyone who'd connect a gun with a gunshot is crazy, right?
The old saying....if you hear it, it wasn't meant for you !
The PARENTS allowed their daughter to wallow in sorrow, WITHOUT A FIX !
I had a choicely worded response to your callous blaming of the parents, but decided against posting it. Instead, let me just say that it is obvious that you are clueless about your accusations.
As the mate of a school assistant principal, I assure you that school administrators receive more requests for their time and attention from parents than they could muster, even if they worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The crass response you are suggesting happens all day long, by parents who think that the administrators are there to exclusively serve them and their kid, the rest of the families be damned.
Keeping guns in the home of a bullied child is the worst possible thing a parent can do. If you are so in love with your guns that even the possible suicide of your child can’t put a dent in it, then you get what you deserve.
If you have children every gun should have a trigger lock and then should be stored in a gun safe. You should also lock up all ammo because you'd be surprised at the stupid shit kids will do with a Bullet. If you have kids you should store your guns with the assumption that if they can get to them they will play with them. I remember dozens of friends who would "Show Off" their fathers guns when their parents weren't home, I even had a Girlfriend who showed me her dads 357 and a couple years later I got called into the Police station because somebody stole it and she named dozens of friends whom she had shown the gun to (I hadn't been there in two years so I was cleared).
As the mate of a school assistant principal, I assure you that school administrators receive more requests for their time and attention from parents than they could muster, even if they worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Like my parents always told me when I was growing up .... "Choose your battles, WISELY!
Apparently, especially with everything on National TV about bullying the last decade, this "Public" school didn't find this battle worthy....and the "PARENTS" gave up !
Poor girl !
She was an 11 year old child. There is more blame to go around than to say grace over. A child should never reach the point where their only option is take their own life. It is inexcusable!
She would have been smarter to shoot the bullies. Claim temporary insanity induced by the bullying.
That’s not even funny at all - yet you posted it three times.
I didn't mean it to be funny. Think about it. She is dead - an innocent girl who had to put up wtih being bullied by some miserable pieces of shit, while they will live on to bully others the rest of their lives. She's dead and the bad guys win - is that your philosophy? So you doin't think she would be better off alive, even if she could plead temporary insanity induced by their behviour? It would be a lesson to learn by kids who bully to see what can happen to them.
As for posting. I click "Post Your Comment" ONCE, and what I posted comes up 2 or 3 times. It takes me ages to for the system to allow me to delete, IF it allows me to delete. Sometimes I move the cursor to the "delete" ash can icon and the icon disappears when I cover it, that is IF the ash can and gear icons show up at all. And if they DO show up and I click it, I have to click it ten times before it works. And then to keep going back on an article that is long it takes minutes for the article to open up enough for me to reach my comment, that is IF the article opens up enough to reach my comment. So you see, Hal, I give up. I'm simply going to allow my comments to duplicate themselves and to hell with it.
I understood what you might.
You've gotta have family behind you!!!!!! Family protects one another, so, you don't feel so alone in this world.
Not funny! There is an 11 year old little girl dead. I don't believe for one moment that the gun belonged to her.
Damn straight it's not funny. You think her step father was lying about it being her gun? If so, the truth will come out, it should not be too difficult to ascertain. If she owned her own gun there would be at least a few people who know this.
"Thomas told WTOC that the family regularly shoots, but that bullets are kept away from guns in the house and that the children typically did not touch them."
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It is too easy for an 11 year old to get the idea to shoot herself.
Or cut herself, or OD herself, or poison herself or .......
She would have been smarter to shoot the bullies.
She would have been smarter to shoot the bullies.
Yeah, because that Columbine thing turned out so well for everyone. Is a /s for sarcasm even needed in this case? What in Hell makes ballistophiles always trot out the dumb contention that the answer to every tragedy, even school kids problems, can found at the business end of a goddamn gun? Are you actually suggesting that the better thing for that young girl to have done was to take her gun to her school and shoot everyone who had ever bullied her? Good Grief! It was the easy access to that damn gun that allowed this to happen. Not all problems can be solved with guns. Besides, if she had shot her bullies it is likely she would have ended up dead and being the villian of this tragedy, too...
I appreciate your opinion, but I support and sympathize with the innocent kids who have been bullied. I don't give a shit WHAT it takes to end the bullying.
Obviously you don't Buzz, it's just that some of us 'bleeding hearts' think that shooting all the bullies may be just a tad extreme, but you know how irrational us 'bleeding hearts' can be!
The far right wing 2nd Ammendment extremist's knee jerk reaction to any and all gun tragedies is to assert that the whole problem could have been averted if more People were armed to the teeth. Hell! If school kids were allowed to open carry kindergarten through college school bullying would disappear /S. (Not taking anyone's concept of satire for granted) Wasn't just about everyone bullied at one time of another? A damn pre-need burial insurance saleman tried to bully me and I damn sure ain't a school kid. In any case, I plainly am not an advocate for bullying or pr bullies but, gall dern it. someone has to stand up to the numb nuts who think shooting People is an answer to every conflict in life. Having more guns per capita than anywhere other than war zones surely has not made any of us safer and yet that seems to be the only answer the gun humpers ever put forward besides contending that ropes and knives and hammers and swimming pools are dangerous too. Taking this subject with right wingers is futile. All the gun nuts ever say is that it is tastless to even talk about it and that everyone should just own more guns. I thought I had heard it all before but I never thought anyone would say that the answer to school bullying was for school children to arm themselves and should shoot their bullies. It that were the case Comumbines would be almost weekly. Except they practically are. Aren't they? Sometimes all one can do is to shake one's head at the clueless ness of your average right wing gun nutters. Those wingers really do live in their own alternate universe. Opposite World. Who would have ever believed that Juarez and Tijuanna would be become safer than a small town American Southern Baptist church on a Sunday Morning?
"Toni Rivers, who was a sixth grader at a Hampton County School District 1 elementary school, had been bullied for months, her family said, and her mother, Amy Thomas, had been in contact with the school multiple times"
It would only take one time of a Public School ignoring "ME" and my child's plight, and he/she would be out of that system toot sweet. These parents seem to have found that prolonging their daughters problem (FOR FUCKING MONTHS).....because they were COWARDS and "Wouldn't" put their foot down immediately.......was a good thing !
And some say "government schools" are the best......Pfffffffft !
Your image of a gun in this article is so moronic !
SOUNDS LIKE A FRIGGIN "PARENT" PROBLEM TO ME !
Put the face of the parents in the image instead !
The image came with the article. I did not add it.
Yet YOU posted the article showing a "GUN" that had NOTHING to do with the real problem !
Thumbs Friggin up !
Oh I disagree that the gun is not a problem
It's not. The problem lies with the parents and the school administration. But, we know, it's easy to go after the inanimate object than deal with real problems.
"It takes a village" has little to nothing to do with inanimate objects
Would you give a 4 year old a box of matches under the theory that a match is an inanimate object and so harmless?
Of course......
inanimate objects are possessed ! Always calling, calling, calling, to their human host.
Unbelievable !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The photo of the gun is a pistol and it was reported she used a rifle. Smells like a fake photo to me.
So, You know my smart phone and computer ?
Do they Talk to you in your sleep ?
Gotta love the "Calling of the phone" ! Same people problem. Ya just gotta fucking answer that mechanical text, even driving 70 mph on the highway.
Worship the Smart? phone.....Worship the Smart? phone.
LOL .. Not yet, I do tend to think about them shortly after awaking some days though.
And I'm with you... Shut em OFF sometimes !
No I dont take or even make phone calls while behind the wheel. Let that telephone ring.. let it ring, ring ring
Hear! fucking hear !
Which only reaffirms that it takes a village. The match isn't the issue. Never has been.
In this case, Sammy, that IS what happened in a manner of speaking. She was miserable and her gun kept calling her.
Sadly, the little girl thought it was the solution.
Suicide is, it solves all your problems instantly and you will never have a problem again. That's why it's so common, it works
She was miserable because the bullying kept up, no thanks to HER PARENTS? !
What does an 11 year old girl need her own gun for, by the way?