This is just so tragic.
Last week, a seventh grader in Ohio took a semi-automatic rifle to school with an aim to kill. Before carrying out his grim plan, he instead took his own life in the school bathroom.
According to the AP:
A seventh-grader who shot and killed himself inside an Ohio middle school restroom last week was planning to shoot others at the school before changing his mind at the last second, a police chief said Thursday.
The boy, 13-year-old Keith Simons, came out of the bathroom holding a semi-automatic rifle just before classes began and then abruptly went back inside and shot himself in the head, said Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink.
Police don’t know why Simons didn’t carry out the attack and probably never will, the police chief said. “We should thank God every day, whatever made him change his mind,” Brink said.
Investigators found messages on his cellphone that showed the teen had been planning an attack for at least a week at Jackson Middle School, near Massillon. He also showed admiration for the two students who carried out the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado nearly 19 years ago.
The child concealed the gun he planned to use under his clothes and stuffed his backpack with “extra ammunition, bottle rockets and batteries”.
Where the hell did a seventh grader get access to such weaponry?
Enough with the guns.
Gun. Control. Now.