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14-Year-Old Boy Shoots Himself in School Cafeteria While Horrified Classmates Watch

14 Year Old Boy Shoots Himself in School Cafeteria While Horrified Classmates Watch

Walpole Elementary School students comfort one another after a boy shot and seriously wounded himself in the cafeteria. (AP)

A 14-year-old boy shot and seriously wounded himself in front of horrified classmates in the cafeteria of a New Hampshire elementary school Friday, officials said.

The Walpole Elementary School eighth grader, identified as Hunter Mack by classmates, was airlifted to a local hospital with serious injuries, the New Hampshire Sentinel Source reported. According to the newspaper, it was the region’s first school shooting in recent memory. No information was released Friday night about the boy’s condition.

The shooting took place around 11 a.m. in front of 70 other students, said Principal Samuel Jacobs, who was also in the cafeteria at the time. The school, which has 125 students in grades five through eight, went into lockdown mode afterward. There was no danger to other students or staff after the shooting, officials said.

Cheshire County Attorney Peter Heed told New Hampshire’s WMUR-TV Mack might have been upset about a “relationship issue” with a girl.

“It clearly involved a relationship issue. I think that is fair to say,” Heed told WMUR.

Nick Phillips, a cousin and classmate of Mack’s who was in the cafeteria at the time of the shooting, told the Sentinel Source the teen mostly kept to himself. He told other students he was depressed and had talked about shooting himself earlier in the week, Phillips said.

He told WMUR everyone was terrified when the gun went off.

“They were all crying. It was sad,” Phillips said. “They’re shocked about what happened.”

Parents quickly assembled at the school to pick up their children, the Sentinel Source reported. Some mothers wept when police informed them their children had witnessed the shooting, and many students left with tear-stained cheeks or expressionless faces.

Officials have not said what type of gun was used or how Mack gained access to it.

Counselors were at the school Friday afternoon and will be on site Saturday to speak with students.

Comments (137)

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  • BoyScout_Mom
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:58pm

    Mercy… and peace.

    So thankful I decided to homeschool this year. Our society is truly rotting and decaying in ruin…

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    • tbeachhead
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:21pm

      The well schooled child from home is ready to reach out to those who have no hope…This stops when we begin to love our neighbor as ourselves…and it isn’t cheap. Cheap is what we have become. It’s time to pay the price of freedom.

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    • tbeachhead
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:24pm

      Please don’t get me wrong. I’m the father of eight, five of whom home schooled up to their freshman year. The rest are not there yet. I am also a thirty year public school teacher. Without the mature and bright young kids with hope, the hopeless see no contrast and lose what little they had. There are one thousand in my school who don’t know their right hand from their left? Does God abandon Nineveh in the brave, new millenium? Not the God who rescued me.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:52pm

      Sorry TBEACHHEAD, As a fifteen year elementary teacher, parents who send their kids to public schools and yes even many of the expensive private schools, are allowing for their children to be indoctrinated and experimented on. My child will not be a useful idiot. He will be able to think, and problem solve. He will know true history and have a love of learning. These things are extremely lacking in our education system, even those labeled “good” schools.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:07pm

      .
      Society is rotting because the nanny state has replaced the family.
      Until you wean yourself from the government tit, nothing will change.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:52pm

      And yet still another in California same age jumped from the top of the school building killing himself in front of everyone. Lucky he did not land on someone and kill them too. Its real sad out there these kids killing themselves over being mostly thin skinned to the who bully thing. There have always been bullies but there has not always been suicide in relation to them….maybe some eventual azzkickings but not suicides. So whats changed? The picked on or the bullies style?

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 6:04pm

      I wonder what the stats are for suicide since Obama got in office ?
      Hell if he gets a second term I may do it !

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    • CATPBJ
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:11pm

      @ 2THEADDLED — What an idiotic comment about a serious issue such as suicide and trying to relate it to a sitting president! Hey, buddy, if you need money for bullets, I’ll send it to you! You committing the ultimate act of selfishness and despair would just help weed out the weakest among our species thereby helping Darwinism move along……

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    • loriann12
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:29am

      @tbeachhead

      I get you, even if the others don’t. We need to teach our children right from wrong, insulate them from the propaganda being taught, but sometimes if you have a kid with a good head on his shoulders he can stay in public school and help those others that are blinded by the left. My son is in a charter school (we have choice of school here in Texas) and we constantly monitor what he’s being taught. He knows when something doesn’t “sound” right, and asks us about it. He’s our little conservative evangelist in his school, telling the few welfare kids what it’s really like.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:02am

      Yo Chiefgeorge:

      “What’s changed” … we have decided we do not need nor want God, when we come to our senses this will change, if we keep trying to fix it “ourselves” it will continue to worsen … watch and see… it is already in plain sight!

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    • Abbyreads
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:46pm

      As many issues as there are in our school system, especially when it comes to indoctrination and the like, I think it would do many of these commenters well to think of the students as functioning people.

      Personally, I am a high school student who thinks for myself. I and my friends see our teachers’ bias, we know it exists. I realize not all students do think for themselves, however for the most part, they don‘t and wouldn’t care anyways.

      The spread and sharing of different viewpoints helps our world function. I’m actually kind of glad my head debate coach, several teachers, and many of my friends are democrats; even the ones in positions of power to teach. I mean, it makes me sincerely consider my viewpoints and ideals, and this questioning makes me understand my views better and helps me articulate my arguments well.

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges10
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:23pm

      “14-Year-Old Boy Shoots Himself in School Cafeteria While Horrified Classmates Watch”

      Last time I shot myself in my school cafeteria, they all laughed at me. It took 3 whole days before I felt better. Only, which part of my body is school cafeteria again? I skipped out on Biology class during that part.

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  • stage9
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:45pm

    Children are hungry for truly meaningful and loving relationships. Truly saddening.

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    • tbeachhead
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Huh? If you can’t see beyond the skin color, you deserve a president who got elected by it.

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    • drago
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:27pm

      @shylow aka encinom.
      Go away kid, that bait wont catch fish here.Im sure huffpo will want the 5 bucks they paid you back, because no one here, other than you, will bite on that statement….f-n idiot…..

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:12pm

      I‘m teaching God’s word…we didn’t have all this drama before the gay and interacial revolution of the Jerry Springer generation…ShyLow is my only user name…and I was sent by God to restore love…You can read about me on the JCPenney Ellen Degeneres thread…I tried to sum-up part of my life..and how I have authority from God to be a Judge on these matters…my purpose is also to serve as soap…hence the soap opera-ish nature of my story…opera is a song that tells a story…and the lamb will be singing a new song…go the the JCPenny thread

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:16pm

      SHYLOW. If I’m not mistaken… is a Ron Paul supporter. Or at the very least has spoken in favor of him here.

      Hate to enter politics into this sad story, but we have to see where and why and by whom these comments come from and expose them for what they are and who says them.

      This goes far beyond who you vote for… but attests to your character, values and belief system.

      A guy like this (regardless of his political leanings) can make an impression on his children and possibly ours. It’s a learned behavior and can be passed along…

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:25pm

      Oh yes! PLEASE! Go to the JC Penny thread and read SHYLOW’s life story. It’s Astonishing! Brilliant! Mesmerizing! It’s stranger than fiction but ALL TRUE! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry,… but most of all,.. you‘ll wonder how it’s possible that people like this are ever allowed to be left unsupervised for even a minute? GO NOW! Before it’s too late! :-O

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:40pm

      @time to end…It is a learned behavior that can be passed along…Here,have a chocolate… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmY8XwAITsk&feature=related Read the bible and let the Lord be your Shepherd…don’t be leed by social engineering from the “there is no wrong” crowd,a.k.a the Jerry Springer generation

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:42pm

      SHYLOW,
      I have 2 simple yes or no questions for you. Ya ready? Here goes,….

      1.) Do you talk to God? Yes or No.

      2.) Does God talk to you? Yes or No.

      Please respond by answering yes or no to both questions.
      Thank you.

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    • chiquita
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:01pm

      I will agree with you that children are hungry for truly meaningful and loving relationships. However, they are hungry for those relationships with their parents, above all else. When those aren’t realized or forthcoming, substitutes become paramount, and you have a child committing suicide, or attempting suicide, due to a failure of said relationship. Parents……………so many of you are the ones that should be held ultimately responsible for these types of actions and problems. Are you too busy with your career and other distractions to properly maintain a relationship with your child(ren)?

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:31pm

      @man I communicate with God by a method that he coined CTC “Controlled Thought Correspondence” he has you think of something then answers or guides you by timing your thoughts to align with something in your surroundings…your thoughts could be aligned with something you are reading or hearing or seeing…a scientific way of explaining meditation on steroids…so to answer your question yes to both…and my shrink knows of my thought process…and no I don’t need to up my meds…because there is no cure…another Hyldol seizure will not change what I expereince or erase all the coincidences God has supplied for me…I applaud your efforts to try to get me locked away for not thinking as you do…Yes I communicate with the Almighty God…and have for over a decade

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    • spasm
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:36pm

      SHYLOW is a TROLL plain and simple. Its message is just to incite. Do to this TROLL as you do with all TROLLS. Ignore them……

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 6:11pm

      I’ve had the blues the reds and the pinks… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s5xsVHOJQs Blessed are those invited to the wedding of the Lamb

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 6:30pm

      Yes, children are hungry for loving and truly meaningful relationships. Much of that has to come from the Family. But, when the Schools and the Government teach the students that the things they learn at home – Love of country, God, Christian ethics and Personal Responsibility are WRONG, and are brainwashed to be “free thinkers” and care more for Self Asteem and to serve the State, what do we all expect? Home school? Try doing that on a lower level public servant’s salary!

      So, the kid turns out bad, things go sour, and it’s Blame the Parents! The same parents who taught right from wrong, tried to discipline the child but were overruled and negated by the Liberal society (neighbors, neighbor’s kids, Liberal schools and liberal family members -especially Grandparents!), and THREATENED with “child abuse” if we even TRY to restrict the child and restrict his FRIENDS from entering OUR HOUSE (the child has RIGHTS, you know!) and where should I stop from here?
      It‘s like DON’T GET ME STARTED!
      So now, decades of Liberal Socialism, and this is where we are. Same old tune. Blame the gun, blame the parents, etc., etc., etc.

      Hillary Clinton used an old saying for book, “It takes A Village (to raise a child)”. HOW TRUE! But when the “Village” screws the pooch, it’s back to BLAME THE PARENTS!

      Here’s another saying for the “village”: There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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    • kfett
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:06am

      @SHYLOW: I don’t even know where to begin. Your comment about love dying because of interracial dating is appalling to the point where I can’t summon the words to describe how offended I am. God created all people equally, and if He creates love between two people of different skin colors, who are you to judge that? I thought that this type of bias was out of the picture long ago, but sadly I am mistaken if there are still people like you in the world. You are obviously seriously deluded because you believe that you have been “appointed by God” to judge and what not……I fear people like you more than anyone because it is the likes of you that will bring the downfall of humanity. Medication and therapy are good things, but they only work if you humble yourself enough to partake in them. May God bless your warped soul.

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    • obfuscatenot
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:17am

      Kids are being taught that life isn’t fair-get used to it. They are no longer being taught that they have the power to control their own destiny. THOSE who continue to blame parents over the schools-I humbly submit-this is the second generation of the unionized school. The parents were publicly educated and NOW their children are reaping the benefits of such an “enlightened” education. Guinea pigs that the educated educators now must fix, at a huge increase in fees, of course. Get your kids out of the public schools, and get involved- get the leftists off the school boards!

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:10pm

      @kfett God gives people a choice of different paths to go down…God’s word warns agaist mixing with others that are not like you…I suggest people follow God’s path that he has litt with his lamp when choosing someone to coppulate with… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8txrO0SCRJo If you say God’s word does not warn against mixing outside of your own…then you might want to read his word again

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  • nosycophant
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:37pm

    Arugula!

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  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:31pm

    What a shame. So sad. And it can happen to any parent, it seems. Kids need to know they have something to offer. If somebody doesn’t want them, ‘The one who loved more, had more’. The one who loves more, has more. The intangibles, as in, the ability to love, love of family, love of God, the desire to better one’s self, etc, etc. Kids ‘and’ adults need to know these things are the very ‘stuff’ of life. And they can go on, even when all is sad and dark. God bless this boy and others as we all get by day to day.

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  • beardo
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:09pm

    Folks, this is not a problem of a child having a gun. Some years ago, a friend of our daughter’s in middle school comitted suicide. Her mother came home and found her in their garage. She had attached a rope to the rafters and stood on a table . Sure, guns are available,but so are pills,and ropes, and razor blades and rivers ,and tall buildings and the list goes on. What are we teaching (or not teaching) our children. The problem is not the tools they use but the thoughts they have. We’ll never solve this until we address the root cause of the problem..

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Well what is the root cause? I once heard a certain someone say “Don’t take advice from someone who offers free advice” so alright give me 9 Billion dollars and I tell you the root cause.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Very well said.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Micheal Obama Killed This Child With Her Food Policy

      This poor child must have gone over the brink when he was being forced to eat Obama food. Obama must apologize to the parents.

       
    • beardo
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 7:21pm

      Itsjusttim ; Try reading the last three sentences of my post.

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  • Romanticpoet
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:04pm

    Is is sad to think today our children have no idea about conflict resolution. This boy, sadly, thought the only answer to a “girl problem” was to shoot himself?

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:36pm

      The socialization of the inner-soul makes for an unhappy reincarnation because they come back with less fruit than they left with. That’ll be a 7 billion dollar charge, the bill will be in the mail.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:16pm

      Church… is the Answer… not a problem that requires government intervention!

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  • Collbuzz
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:58pm

    Praying to our Lord for all involved.

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    • kozanne
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:03pm

      Absolutely. God weeps for this child.
      What our children need to know to transcend the brutality of this world cannot be taught in a school. It begins in the home, with parents whose hearts are loving and true.

      God be with this child, his family and all those who witnessed this horrible event.

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    • spirited
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:46pm

      @KOZANNE:

      >You are absolutely correct.

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  • sjohn70037
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:53pm

    Natural selection at work.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:39pm

      Please don’t disrespect the Texas flag with insensitive comments like that.

      I’m asking all my fellow Texans to reply to this comment with compassion and sympathy, showing the world this poster is a troll defaming our great state.

      God bless the child. God bless the family. God bless the witnesses.

      God bless Texas.

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    • chiquita
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:53pm

      I agree with Brother_Ed: “Please don’t disrespect the Texas flag with insensitive comments like that.” Actually, don’t disrespect the young man or his family & friends, or those that witnessed this act, especially the young. We all have a breaking point. Unfortunately, this youngster felt that he’d reached his at this time. I pray for his survival and recovery. I pray that he gets the help he so vitally needs. I pray that all the other youngsters that witnessed, or were periphally touched by the incident, likewise get the help and counselling they need. I pray that we all have the compassion and heart filled with love to NOT cast stones at another’s difficulties. Texas born, Texas raised, Texas proud……Chiquita

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  • groundzero
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:42pm

    Mack’s cousin said he mostly kept to himself. I think from the story, he tryed to help himself out of his shell of depression. He did tell other students he was going to shoot himself. The teenage yrs are hard yrs to understand the whole concept of the world outside ur inner circle.It’s hard to fit in and find ur nech. I wish his parents could have been more alert about his isolation-keeping to himself. Hopefully the child will be able to recover with little side affect wounds and get some help. Let’s all hope for a happy end for the child.

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    • mike o
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:02pm

      you are obviously a very busy man not to have time to ad the ‘y’ and ‘o’ to fully spell ‘yours’ and the ‘e’ and ‘a’ to spell years so i thought i might try to help you save a little more time. try dropping the ‘a’ from ‘and’ for just ‘nd’ and the ‘i’ from ‘his’ to get ‘hs’. this could theorhetically double the 3 seconds you have already saved for a total of 6. imagine what you could do with that, ur wlcm.
      p.s. why did you hope for and ‘end to the child’ , happy or otherwise – thats mean.

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:40pm

    God help those kids and teachers deal with what they saw and prayers to the family and boy. So so very sad

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  • momsense
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:40pm

    A sad commentary on a society which lacks real values most of the time

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  • Skrewedretiree
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:35pm

    Judging by the comments to my comments, looks like there are a lot of naiive people out there. There are a LOT of illegal things 14 year olds are into these days, and pretending that it isn‘t happening and blaming the parents isn’t going to cut it. Parent’s hands are largely tied by the Government- check out how few rights parents have these days!, and then ask if I’m “for real”. If you haven’t had to lock horns with the Nanny State yet, you are all in for a big surprise!

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Every crisis seems like the end of the world when you are young.

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:44pm

      I don’t get why people say this all my life as a kid if other kids didn’t like me or a friend BFD in my book same with peer presser never got to me they want to do it do it if I don’t want any part of it I leave walk away to me the choice was easy and that is just how easy it is other peoples life is their life I live my life how I want to live it not how others want me to.

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:05pm

      So,…. you’re a liberal, correct?
      Let me rephrase that.
      You’re a non-practicing conservative?
      No,… wait. You’re an,……….. independent?
      A free thinker?
      A freemason?
      How about a Reagan-Democrat.
      A Christian Atheist?
      A Catholic Protestant?
      Wait,.. I got it,… you’re Jewish Muslim.
      No? Well,….. what are you then?
      Oh,… I see,… you’re an anti-periodist.
      As in “don’t believe in using a period to end my sentences-ist”.
      I knew it. Can spot one a mile away.

      Manchurian.Candidate  
  • Robert-CA
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:24pm

    Very sad I hope he recovers from this but the kid has suicide issues , we all had relationship problems but not worth to put a bullet in your head .

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  • Manchurian.Candidate
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:21pm

    @Screwed-,
    You can’t be serious. An 8th grader in NH ? Live Free or Die? I lived in NH for years and there are guns in just about every home in the state. If it wasn’t HIS parents, it was one of his friends parents.
    Or maybe it was his own gun? Who knows? But I doubt very highly that an 8th grader (or anyone for that matter) needs to any farther than the upstairs closet to get a firearm. Or the medicine cabinet for drugs.

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  • ForTheRepublic
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:19pm

    those kids in the picture above will be suspended for sexual misconduct any minute now right ?

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:26pm

      That’s not funny. What are you, some kind of sick freak?
      POS.

      Manchurian.Candidate  
    • ThePostman
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:04am

      He’s making a point that these same public schools make it against the rules to hug.

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  • NavyVetGreg
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Why didn’t the gun laws prevent this? Maybe we need more laws. (end sarcasm)

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    • bayoucastine
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:05pm

      Navyvetgreg: Gun Control??
      Excuse me but the GUNS do not commit the crime; if that were really the case then arrest and jail the specific GUN[S] involved. Set a court date and try the GUNS. If found guilty, execute the GUNS. Don’t bother the person who aimed and fired the guns, the person is not guilty – the GUNS committed the crime!!
      This is why ‘gun control’ laws are so ridiculous and ineffective. The gun [weapon if you please] is powerless until a PERSON activates it. Therefore the PERSON is in charge and should be found at fault if the gun [weapon] was used in a manner that injuries or kills someone.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:13pm

      @bayoucastine
      The sarcasim tag at the end of his post was put there so that dense folk would know he was kidding. Did you miss that?

      @navyvetgreg
      maybe we should outlaw teenagers in high school. Yep, I think that would solve the problem.
      BTW (USS Ponce LPD 15, USS Nimitz CVN 68 1968 thru 1975)

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:23am

      @ bayoucastine

      Swing and a miss. LOL

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  • OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:15pm

    Ah, the poor lad.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:14pm

    Pretty sad, but when your young you dont realize that there are millions of beautiful women available in the world…now he still has the relationship issues, but is seriously wounded, very very tragic…. Teen emotions and hormones are pretty strong things to control, hell so are adult emotions for that matter…. Dang.

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    • azmomof6
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:49pm

      I really feel for all those who saw this and for his family. This really hits home for me because my oldest child is a 14-year-old boy in eight grade. I think many of this trophy-generation has a difficult time dealing with anything difficult because they have never been allowed to fail or told to try harder. When never faced with rejection or disappointment until the teenage years, it‘s a lot to take in that the world doesn’t revolve around you. I hope this young man will recover from his injuries and figure out that not everyone is going to like him and that it’s okay. You don’t need everyone to like you in order to be happy.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:57pm

      AZMomof6, Well said and very true.

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  • angiea
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:10pm

    GUNS don’t shoot themselves, so for all the readers who say “It was the GUN’s fault…” When someone is disturbed, they will use whatever is handy. When guns become outlawed, these troubled people will use ropes hanging from beams, so will we outlaw ropes?
    Instead of focusing on “guns” can we perhaps focus on WHAT these depressed people need, and HOW to help them. America is in trouble as long as we look the other way. Perhaps we could have more programs to offer Parents on HOW to raise kids within a good, moral, supportive home of love responsibility.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:19pm

      angiea …………….we can start by putting relegion back in the school……………….i am not a relegious nut but i look at the stats since we took it out and it does tell the tale

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:27pm

      “Perhaps we could have more programs to offer Parents on HOW to raise kids within a good, moral, supportive home of love responsibility.”

      We are trying to reduce the amount of Government programs NOT ADD MORE.

      Didn’t you get that memo?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:07pm

    .
    Attention Kids,

    Your heart will be broken many times in your life, but no Little Girl or Boy is worth dying for……

    One of my best friend’s in High School shot and killed himself over a girl, cause she did not “LOVE” him. I tell you all now, she was not worth it…….

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:23pm

      At that age its lust not love anyway if you teach your kids they can get anything they want and get rejected its a sock kids must be taught failure is part of life it happens learn to deal with it.

      I just dont understan kids now they are so emotional and fragile WHY? I never had these problems.

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:28pm

      You must be perfect then. Lucky you.
      nitwit.

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:33pm

      NO Manchurian.Candidate… my parents were good teachers and explained many things to me so getting rejected was an easy blow to myself esteem.

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:49pm

      Then it’s your parents who are perfect. Man! You really ARE lucky!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:02pm

      @Manchurian.Candidate
      Howdy JHC….

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:27am

      @ The-Monk

      You beat me to it. Isn’t it weird how you can pick up on the inflection just by reading the words?

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  • COFemale
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:01pm

    So sad that he could not handle rejection and felt his life was over due to a girl. I want to know the same thing, where did he get the gun? Parents have a lot of explaining to do. As unfortunate as it was, I am glad he did not take others with him first. Also, if others knew he was talking about suicide, for heavens sake SPEAK UP; you are at fault here as much as he is.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:53pm

      I Have had guns since I was 12,same as millions of Americans..This kids problems are emotional and there are many ways to kill yourself.. i hope he recovers and gets some help..

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  • Grasshopper42
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:51am

    How sad. Guess the school will suspend him now – ‘No tolerance Policy” – you know.

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  • Ohevi
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:47am

    Where did he get the firearm? Parents, lock your firearms. This is just plain sad, and preventable.
    God please have mercy on this family and young boy.

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:54am

      I sense a knee-jerk reaction to blame the parents here. While it is advised to keep firearms in the home away from those under age, it is not fair to assume the gun came from home. There are a LOT of illegal firearms streaming into the country via the illegal aliens and black-market gunrunners who make a fortune on it. Close the borders and a lot of the guns the kids in schools are getting will be less available, just like the drugs.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Skrewedretiree are you for real? yeah, I am sure he found someone dealing in the black market for the gun. My gut feeling said it came from the parents home.

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    • RavenGlenn
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:08pm

      The kid was in eighth grade. How was he going to obtain an illegal firearm other than someone just handing it to him for free? And even then, that would have to be one of the other kids at school. So either that kid’s parents are to blame, or his are.

      Guns don’t just fall out of the sky and even if you are getting one illegally, you have to somehow GET it. And that requires money and someone who isn’t worried about selling an illegal gun to a child. Either way, why would he have this money or be associating with people that would give free guns to children? That is the parents‘ obligation to make sure doesn’t happen.

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:29pm

      Skrewedretiree

      You make it sound like Guns are everywere just laying in the streets hagging off the side of tree’s.

      No kid is going to have easy access to guns unless the home has them or a friends home has them.

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    • Manchurian.Candidate
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:30pm

      @Screwed-,
      You can’t be serious. An 8th grader in NH ? Live Free or Die? I lived in NH for years and there are guns in just about every home in the state. If it wasn’t HIS parents, it was one of his friends parents.
      Or maybe it was his own gun? Who knows? But I doubt very highly that an 8th grader (or anyone for that matter) needs to any farther than the upstairs closet to get a firearm. Or the medicine cabinet for drugs.

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    • troymac20
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:44pm

      He was 14. Anyone who thinks a 14 yr old doesn’t have them means to obtain a gun illegally is just fooling themselves. That being said the easiest is probably the most likely, so I’d bet it was from his home or a friends.

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:55pm

      troymac20…

      That’s sad to hear that America has gone down the tubes that bad in my youth guns were never free and easy to get unless you lived in the bad side of town.

      Where do you live?

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    • troymac20
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:19pm

      @mikev5

      I’m in Va. about an hour from DC. In a pretty small town now, but originally from Alexandria – Arlington area

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:33pm

      You want a real awakening regarding kids, guns… and drugs (not that drugs are the issue here). Google Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest) held in New Hampshire and do some research.

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  • arx
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:45am

    Sad

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