Atlanta School shooting: 14-year-old injured by head shot

Again, Shooting Happened in American School, Atlanta injured two students

Shooting broke out at school in the United States. This time the location is in Price Middle School, Atlanta and wounding two students.

The school confirmed that two people were injured in this incident. Even one of them was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital due to shot in the head.

Atlanta police representative, Carlos Campos said they received reports of the shooting around 13:20 pm local time. In this incident, the police have arrested someone who is allegedly a suspect.

"Police arrested a student suspected as perpetrators," said Campos as reports from myfoxatlanta.com, Friday (02/01/2013).

After the shooting, the school was closed and parents are not allowed to get in to see their child. This school itself is located in southwest Atlanta.

Atlanta School Shooting: Obama calls for tougher gun laws

The mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed, condemned the shooting and other such incidents as "unconscionable". Armed attacks in and around U.S. schools should "stop," he demanded in a published on the website of the city government opinion. "Too many young people are getting hurt, and too many families suffer needlessly and unimaginable grief," Reed added.

In recent months, school shootings in the United States had provided again for horror. In one particularly shocking rampage at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a young man in mid-December had killed 20 children and six adults before he killed himself. U.S. President Barack Obama called on Congress to then to enact stricter gun laws. In the U.S. Constitution, the right of every citizen to bear arms is enshrined.

The Senate on Wednesday in Washington began with the discussion of a legislative initiative of the Democrats. It affirms that the manufacture, importation and sale of more than 150 mostly semi-automatic weapons were prohibited.

Richard Engel, NBC News team were released on Monday after five days of detention.

Richard Engel, NBC News team freed in Syria

An American journalist Richard Engel television and his team kidnapped in Syria five days ago were released on Tuesday announced their employer, NBC News.

"After being kidnapped and held for five days in Syria by an unknown group, Richard Engel, reporter, and his team have been released unharmed," NBC News said Tuesday in a statement. "We are pleased to say that he was able to leave the country."

Richard Engel, age 39, had his team crossed the border with Turkey into Syria last Thursday before being abducted, tied up. Blindfolded, they were transported by their captors to a place probably near the town of Ma'arrat Misrin, NBC said.

American journalist Richard Engel, who was abducted with his team for five days in Syria, said Tuesday that his former captors were pro-Assad militiamen. 

"It was a group known as the shabiha. This is a government militia. They are loyal to President Bashar al-Assad," said Mr. Engel at NBC News in his first interview since his release Monday. He said his captors threatened to execute as well as other members of his team.

The shabiha are a pro-government paramilitary force accused of carrying out a massacre of civilians since the war began 21 months ago, which killed more than 43,000 people according to the OSDH.

Richard Engel, former AFP, said he had not abused but "a lot of psychological torture." "They asked us to choose who would be the first to be executed. When we refused to answer, they fired into the air. It was a traumatic experience," he added. 

Richard Engel has also indicated that his former captors were trained in Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah allies. According to the reporter of NBC, the militia wanted to share as well as his team against four Iranian agents, two Lebanese Amal movement members and other individuals abducted by Syrian rebel.

"They would take us to a Hezbollah stronghold in Syria. Way we were when we came across a roadblock manned by the rebels. There were exchanges of gunfire and two pro-Assad militiamen were killed," he said.

Other kidnappers managed to escape, and found themselves hostages free unharmed. They are pressed in Turkey on Tuesday morning.

Syrian rebels Ahrar Brigades al-Sham indicated their side Tuesday in a statement it had "released yesterday evening five foreign journalists who were detained by an armed gang in connection with the regime," citing the names of Mr. Engel and four other: a Turk, a Jordanian / British, one American and one German / Syrian.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH) has for his part in a statement that there had been a "shootout" between combatants Ahrar Brigades al-Sham manning a checkpoint at the western Ma'arrat Misrin and a group of gunmen in the car. "The gunmen fled and abandoned the vehicle in which journalists have been discovered," said the OSDH, which states that "pro-regime gunmen are responsible for the abduction."

Ahrar al-Sham is a Salafist group, notes Reuters, which is fighting for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in Syria and opposes pluralistic democracy. He did not show hostility to Western journalists so far.

NBC Reporter, Richard Engel went missing in Syria

Contradictory information had circulated in the past 24 hours, about the fate of American journalist before NBC announces its release.

Turkish and Western media had announced that he was missing while the American chain refused to comment on this story.

Richard Engel is a war correspondent who has received several awards for his work in the Middle East, especially for its coverage of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Two foreign journalists are missing in Syria. The Palestinian-Jordanian Bashar al-Fahmi Kadumi, the Arab television Al-Hurra U.S. capital has disappeared in Aleppo (north) on August 20. Austin American freelance journalist Tice disappeared Aug. 13 in the suburbs of Damascus. Last November, Mark and Debra, Austin Tice parents, held a press conference at Press Club in Beirut , to ask influential parties to work for his release.

Adam Lanza Shooting: National Review Blames Massacre on "Feminized Setting" at Sandy Hook School

Now that we are nearly one week aloof from the terrible Newtown school shooting, many people are hoping for additional cogent, nuanced, and credible accounts of what happened. The National Review Online dashed those hopes Wednesday by publishing a piece blaming a “feminized setting” and Newtown teachers for the attack that killed twenty students and 6 academics at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty on December 14.

“There was not one adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this college of 450 students, a sizeable variety of whom were undoubtedly 11- and twelve-year-old boys (it absolutely was a K–half dozen faculty), all the personnel — the lecturers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even appear to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, appeared to own performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the varsity’s public-address system and conjointly lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the lecturers managed to save all or a number of their charges by speeding them into closets or loos." 

From : policymic.com

Adam Lanza Shooting Renews Debate Over Video Game Violence Among Politicians And Gamers

White House adviser David Axelrod tweeted, "However shouldn't we have a tendency to conjointly quit marketing murder as a game?"

And Donald Trump weighed in, tweeting, "Video game violence & glorification should be stopped — it is creating monsters!"

On the opposite hand, forced treatment will also be emotionally wrenching for the patient and cause lingering anger, mental-health experts say.

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Sandy Hook Shooting: Why Did Lanza Target a School?

“People who are forcibly treated so often feel traumatized by it,” says Robert Whitaker, author of “Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and also the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America.” “Ladies in specific will generally speak regarding it nearly like a quasi-rape, as a result of sometimes they are held down and injected,” he says.

Moreover, a private wants to be dangerous before intervention is potential. The state’s normal will not take into thought an individual’s past psychiatric history, like repeated hospitalizations or symptoms of psychiatric deterioration that might culminate in violence.

Gun control may doubtless remove one tool from the hands of potential perpetrators, but mass homicides occur in each part of the globe — Scotland, Norway, Germany, China. So whereas it might indeed be the proper time to talk regarding gun control, as many are saying, it's also the proper time to speak about mental health care in our country. Our country’s funding for mental-health services has only gotten worse since the 2008 recession. As the National Alliance on Mental Illness has been warning for it slow, the prevailing level of funding is inadequate, therefore our nation’s ability to identify and look after the severely mentally sick has been hamstrung.

In my very own clinical work, I’ve seen individuals I’ve identified as being probably at risk for future criminal behavior as a result of of their mental illness. Very often, there are merely few to no resources for them until they come to the eye of the criminal-justice system. Obviously, the vast majority of the chronically mentally unwell won’t commit crimes, definitely not of the severity of the Sandy Hook shooting. However by leaving the mentally sick adrift to fend for themselves, we have a tendency to miss the chance to spot and treat some of these at-risk people before they escalate. Granted, neither gun management nor a well-funded mental-health system will forestall each mass homicide. But we have a tendency to leave ourselves — and more innocent kids — vulnerable until we have a tendency to address both of those problems.

Source : ideas.time.com