Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org When I was 9 years old I lived in a northern Minnesota town that suffered through one of the first school shootings in the United States. At least I thought it was, until recently - more on that below. Anyway, the shooting happened on an October day in 1966 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a small town that to this day remains small enough to require only a single high school. On that day a 15-year-old boy brought a .22 pistol to school and shot a fellow student, then shot an administrator named Forrest Willey, who died 8 days later. The boy had been teased and/or bullied in school and his response was to shoot a classmate and kill an adult who was trying to keep him from shooting others.
Thank you, Amy!
Great article and insights!