Student at Sparks Middle School Says Anti-Bullying Video Showed Bullies Threatened With a Gun Days Before Shooting
Educational "experts" relying on videos to do their jobs for them
An anti-bullying video allegedly shown to the 12-year-old shooter at Sparks Middle School is being suggested as the inspiration behind his deadly shooting spree.
Amaya Newton, an eighth grader at the Nevada school, says the boy was often mistreated by fellow students and that the video showing a bullied girl retaliating with a gun in the days before may have "gotten into his head."
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This is going to be interesting....
No!! It was the evil right wing talk radio, world of warcraft, NRA anti-child coalition that caused this.
"... the inspiration behind his deadly shooting spree."
What "spree?" There was no spree. He shot one person and then himself. That is not a spree. Do these authors even know the meaning of the words they put to paper?