Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
WHO ‘STARTED SCHOOL GUNS HELL’
as a depressive, she said she was drinking alcohol and on phencyclidine – angel dust – which made her hallucinate when she opened fire.
Controversially, she also alleged her father had sexually abused her. “I had to share my dad’s bed til I was 14 years old,” she said during a 2009 hearing. Her father denied her claims.
She previously told the board: “I know saying sorry doesn’t make it all right. With every school shooting, I feel I’m partially responsible. What if
SINCE Brenda Spencer’s attack, at least 143 children, teachers and other people have been killed, and another 289 injured in assaults.
And the problem is getting worse. The most bloodshed in American schools was recorded last year with 35 people killed, 28 of whom were students, and 79 injured.
Although the US government does not track the attacks, research shows they got the idea from what I did?” And yet the model prisoner maintains she is no murderer, refusing to take full responsibility, instead blaming her upbringing. “I had asked for a radio but got a gun instead,” she said.
Estimates suggest that since Spencer’s killings more than 350,000 pupils across 400 schools have witnessed a gun attack in America. It is one of the reasons her bid for freedom is so bitterly opposed by many,
there were 25 incidents resulting in death or injury.
Another database recording school shootings says 2018 had the highest number of incidents recorded.
That database, from the US Center for Homeland Defense, uses a different way of identifying gun incidents in schools and says there were 94.
Thirteen people, plus killers Eric
Harris and Dylan Klebold, died at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. In 2002 the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, claimed 26 lives and shooter Adam Lanza.
Last year 17 people died at Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High. In 2007 Seung-hui Cho, 23, killed 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech.