1 dead 3 injured but school massacre prevented in Seattle

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Suspect tackled foiling apparent full on school massacre at Seattle Pacific University
Suspect reported to be obsessed with Columbine, traveled to Columbine according to Seattle TV station

From Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/ ... ngxml.html

From KIRO
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/shootin ... ity/ngFbf/

That student security guard risked his life to protect others...

Once he had him down, other students ran over, and piled on him......no one knows how many could have died if not for their bravery!

Did you catch this part?

The tactics of keeping peace have always been the highest martial art form. I see no reason to claim the hero as one of our own when we ourselves are a sample group effectively swimming around a microscope slide, waiting for one conclusive turn of events; most of us aren't murderers, though some of us have been tasked with dealing with murderers. As far as I can see, no one outside the immediate context has any rights regarding speculation over the psyches of such first responders. When the resolution of any such situation involves weapons, the risk of collateral trauma overruns the psyches of the aggressors and victims, exacerbating the peacemakers.

I think the goal of unifying autistics with NTs is one and the same with the goal of building a habitable global society, so it follows that I believe we shouldn't be drawing lines in the sand from the vantage point of our own morality in response to these disasters. Trauma both adds to and dramatically affects HFA, someone receiving your hero's welcome here today could be just another HTTP page hit tomorrow, and their cathartic means of relief from these recounts of violence must be respected in equal measure with their wider psyches.

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when is America gonna get a clue and spend on mental health what it needs to?

I have to agree with cberg. But still, gotta admit that it would be nice to hear the same speculation when someone does something heroic that we have to live with when someone does something monstrous.