NASA Chief Laments Texas School Shooting Near Johnson Space Center

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Space.com


By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor | May 18, 2018 02:48pm ET

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine expressed anguish in response to the news of a school shooting in Texas today (May 18), a tragedy that occurred near the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, which is located 15 miles from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. At least nine people were killed in the shooting, according to the Houston Chronicle. A suspect, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, is in police custody, and a second person was detained as a person of interest, according to The New York Times.

"I'm devastated to hear of the tragic shooting in Texas near our [NASA Johnson] facility," Bridenstine wrote in a Twitter statement. "My family and I are praying for the students, teachers and the entire Santa Fe community."

NASA's Johnson Space Center is home to the space agency's astronaut corps. It is where astronauts train and prepare for human spaceflight missions. The center is also home to NASA's Mission Control Center for the International Space Station.


Read more: https://www.space.com/40636-nasa-administrator-laments-texas-school-shooting.html

[quartz007]

1. Recently I was in a district court

I had to walk through a metal detector and the security checked my bag thoroughly.

If court personnel are protected so well, why not school students?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Absolutely! Anything less invites more murders. n/t

[quartz007]

3. More gun laws will not do the job quickly

it will be years and decades before more gun laws will have any effect. We need immediate action on installing checkpoints to enter schools. It will require additional resources, but the children are well worth it. I am sick of innocent young students getting shot and harmed. I can't even imagine the grief of parents.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Many urban schools have had metal detectors in place over the past 20 years

And here in Philly, they had been put in all high schools over 25 years ago, although recently with the reorganization of the School District, some have been removed but the rest have been kept at those schools with documented issues.

This had been done in response to stabbings and individual shootings, generally by handguns. Nowadays, students come in and literally mow other children down with semi-automatic rifles

[quartz007]

6. Good to know some school districts are wise

With our violent society we live in, the only solution which can be 95-97% effective is controlled access to schools. We simply can not control 400 Million guns in private hands, for decades and decades to come.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. There can be some type of control

where certain types would not be made available for civilian purchase (which would at least reduce the availability for routine thieves).

[llmart]

4. Another ass...

praying for them. Get up off your freakin' knees and do something. You're a Trump toadie.