Two Colorado teens arrested in alleged plot to shoot up high school

[mfcorey1]

Just a week after a disaffected teen severely wounded a fellow student at his Colorado high school before killing himself, police arrested two other boys Friday on suspicion of plotting to similarly shoot up their high school in the same state.
Trinidad High School, Trinidad Middle School and Fisher's Peak School in Trinidad were on "lockout" status — sealing children and staff inside — for most of Thursday until it was determined that the boys weren't in class.
The boys — who weren't identified because they are juveniles ages 15 and 16 — face charges of making a credible threat to a school and felony inciting destruction of life or property, Trinidad police said Friday.

They'd been planning for at least six weeks to open fire in the high school once classes resume next month after the winter break, police said.
Trinidad, 75 miles south of Pueblo near the New Mexico border, is about 170 miles south of Centennial, where Karl Halverson Pierson, 18, shot a fellow student and committed suicide last week at Arapahoe High School. Monday, a 14-year-old student was arrested for allegedly making similar threats at Black Hills High School in Tumwater, Wash.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/20/21989659-two-colorado-teens-arrested-in-alleged-plot-to-shoot-up-high-school?lite

[Ed Suspicious]

1. I'm guessing the impulse to harm classmates isn't new, but the ease of access to guns is???

[DrDan]

2. as is the notoriety others have received

"new" as in the past decade or so

[oldhippie]

8. I don't think so ......

When I was a kid back in the 60's in New York State everyone I knew had a rifle. Many of us took our rifles to school with us on the school bus for rifle team practice after school, or to go woodchuck hunting after class. I would leave my rifle and ammo in my locker all day. Nobody ever shot anybody. I also in high school had a rifle and a shotgun and ammo hanging on the wall of the bedroom I shared with my younger brother.

Forty and fifty years ago a LOT of students had easy access to weapons. Something else is different.

[Cosmocat]

3. WTF is with Colorado?

It is like Deadwood out there ...

[HereSince1628]

4. I would guess similar things go on across the entire country.

[painesghost]

7. Really!

When I saw the title I thought, "I bet this is Colorado." I was not disproven.

[firsttimer]

5. The police better be damn sure about this before they ruin two kids lives

Trinidad police said the younger of the two boys arrested Friday had been bullied and had talked about "idolizing" three other Colorado mass killers — Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999, and James Eagan Holmes, who faces trial in the shootings that killed 12 people at a movie theater last year in Aurora


The 15-year-old boy denied having threatened the school when questioned by police, but teachers and other students told investigators they had heard him make the threats.


Trinidad police said the younger of the two boys arrested Friday had been bullied and had talked about "idolizing" three other Colorado mass killers




Wouldn't surprise some students might lie about hearing him threaten them.
They bullied him according to the article

[mfcorey1]

6. The last thing any kid in Colorado should do is bully another child. In fact, especially in Colorado

bullying should be a felony.