NICE BOY WHO WAS BULLIED KILLS TEACHER AND HIMSELF ALSO WOUNDS TWO FELLOW STUDENTS AT SPARKS NEVADA SCHOOL.............

Yesterday, yet another senseless American school shooting occurred, this time in a middle school in Sparks, Nevada; oustide of Reno.  a 13 year old boy, described by some of his friends and classmates, as being, "nice", and always "smiling", arrived on campus with an automatic handgun.  He is reported to have started threatening fellow students with the gun, and when a popular math teacher who was also the school soccer coach approached to try and talk him into relinquishing the handgun, the boy told the teacher to back off, and as the teacher backed up, he shot and killed him.  The perpetrator then aimed his gun at a number of other students, shooting and wounding two other 12 year old boys, who after surgery are said to be in stable condition.  After killing the teacher, and wounding  the two students, he turned the gun on himself and is also dead.  How sad and tragic an occurrence this is.  The unidentified shooter it has been said was being bullied, which may have caused him to commit this criminal act.  Just as tragic is that the handgun he used is thought to belong to the boy's parents.  How sad for the perpetrator's father and mother, who now must cope with the tragic loss of their son, but the wanton act he committed costing the life of a heroic teacher and serious violence against fellow students.  How many more such shootings and mass shootings must American families be victimized by before we decide in the individual and national interest of our citizens to exert even more effective gun safety and checks on who has access to weapons they use to wreak havoc by wounding and killing victims of their personal malfunctioning ?.............tdp