2 Oregon students arrested for plotting ‘Columbine’ style attack

[tomm2thumbs]

Source: ABC News 8

Two juveniles were arrested Tuesday night on charges of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with plans they had to execute a Columbine-type attack on La Grande High School in Oregon. La Grande police began an investigation after receiving a tip about the planned attack on Monday evening. The threat was later determined to be credible, police said.

Interviews with those familiar with the situation revealed the two suspects reportedly intended to target staff, students and law enforcement in the attack. Both suspects were taken into custody late Tuesday night.

Classes resumed Wednesday without incident, police said.

The investigation is ongoing.

Read more: http://wric.com/2016/04/14/2-oregon-students-arrested-for-plotting-columbine-style-attack/

[NobodyHere]

1. It's shame that so much anger builds up in kids like these with no healthy release

[Archae]

2. Been there.

I was mostly the "wallflower" type, as is, I was very happy to graduate, and have never gone back.

Every 5 years I get asked to class reunions, I simply ignore them.

I detested most of my classmates, and have had only extremely sporadic meetings with them since.

Small town, fucking jocks were the BMOC and got everything handed to them on a silver platter.
It surprises me no one ever went "Columbine" ever, at my school.

[Coventina]

3. Agreed. The only thing surprising about Colombine is that similar incidents don't happen more often

I was nothing but an anger/despair-filled meat bag as a teenager.

Fortunately for me, my parents didn't have guns in the house.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Harris was a full blown psychopath, Klebold was a clinical depressive.

I don't mean psychopath in the 'crazy dude' vein, I mean fully diagnosed Psychopath. Cold, calculating, fully aware and in control.

The FBI declassified their psych profiles of both, about 5 years after the shootings.

Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.

"Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand "the killers," quit asking what drove them. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions. Klebold is easier to comprehend, a more familiar type. He was hotheaded, but depressive and suicidal. He blamed himself for his problems. "

I seriously doubt your teenage anger, however real, was anything like Harris. (or we would not be having this conversation.)

[Coventina]

6. Point taken.

[crim son]

8. Do you really believe that?

I despised high school, being a skinny, flat-chested nerd who spent my lunchtime for three years, in the library reading the entire fiction section, one shelf at a time. Other kids were cruel, especially the girls. Never once did it occur to me to hurt anybody other than myself and I was diagnosed with clinical depression at age 17. I'll be on meds for life. My point: regular teenage angst and even aggravated teenage angst does not explain why kids are killing one another pretty regularly these days and I am NOT surprised it doesn't happen more often. Oh, and my father had guns in the house at the time.

[Coventina]

9. Please see post #6. n/t

[davidpdx]

5. I'm glad someone had an inkeling of what was going on and came forward

We'll never know how many lives could have been lost if that person had not acted.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. And that someone listened to them n/t

[trueblue2007]

10. IF THEY ARE GUILTY.... throw away the key. Jail for 35 years !!!