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Tomorrow my town, literally...my kids have all graduated, but this is where they went to school:

‘Columbine-type’ threat thwarted at Plymouth Whitemarsh High

By Lloylita Prout

Inquirer Staff Writer
Plymouth Whitemarsh High School is conducting classes as usual this morning after a possible "Columbine-type" attack by a non-student was thwarted, officials said.

A 14-year-old home-schooled male student was taken into custody after a 9mm assault rifle, air guns, hand grenades, explosive powder, a bomb-making book, videos of the Columbine shooting, and disturbing notebooks were found at the student's home, according to Plymouth Township police. Police received a complaint that the student was planning an attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh.

After getting a tip from a high school student and his father yesterday, police went to the 14-year-old's home, informed his parents, and were granted permission to search.

One hand grenade was working; three others were being put together by the suspect, police said.

The notebooks detailed violent acts, police said.

"Police are confident that the incident is isolated to this individual and no threat to the school and/or students exists," says a statement on the Colonial School District's website (http://www.colonialsd.org).

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20071011_High_school_open__teen_in_custody_as_threat_investigated.html

What the hell would possess a home-schoolee to pull something like this? I can understand the social awkwardness that fuels the others, but home-school? WTF?

Tommorrow I'm introducing legislation allowing all teachers and children over the age of five to be legally able to carry concealed weapons to all school funtions in order to be able to protect themselves from these vicious killers.

There it is. I was waiting for that.

Apparently what we need are more parents with a clue about what their kids are up to.

Obviously a secular progressive that shot up that school.

Did you read John Gibson's comments on this? Apparently he was able to discern that it was a white kid because hip-hoppers they shoot and move on.

As a Clevelander, this is pretty crazy and certainly hits home, but it kills me every time that the answer never really touches on solving the problem.

What we need seems to be teachers that don't let students beat up other children because they don't believe in God. We need school systems that protect children from being bullied, and that engage them so that they don't feel so isolated as to lash out at authority and society in general. These incidents are part of a much wider failure in our society. We would be papering it over if we just banned guns, as these children would still feel tortured and would still be seething with rage. Even the best parents won't really be able to help their kids in that situation if the school district, as preliminary information in this case is indicating, either ignores or encourages their torment.