3 Dead, 7 Injured in School Shooting in Phillippines

Several years ago, Time did a piece that looked at how there are so few mass shootings in the Philippines. I wrote about it at the time, and there was some speculation as to why that was the case. Mostly, though, it was about how that sort of thing happens here, but not there.

And, unfortunately, saying that it doesn’t happen there as much doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, as we can unfortunately see today.

Two students armed with hand guns opened fire in a high school in the central Philippines on Monday, killing three fellow students and wounding another seven, police said.

The suspects, aged 14 and 15, were arrested. The suspects and victims were students of the San Jose National High School in Tacloban city, southeast of Manila, where the mid-morning shooting happened, regional police chief Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy said.

An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the shooting in the government-run school, which has more than 1,500 students. Capoy said the suspects, who were close friends, said in initial questioning that they were bullied in school. He didn’t elaborate.

They have no criminal records, Capoy said. One got the 9 mm pistol he used in the attack from an aunt, a police officer, who is now being investigated. The other suspect used a cal. 38 revolver.

Philippine National Police spokesperson Allen Rae Co said the revolver is registered to a security agency based in Cebu City in the central Philippines, the Reuters news agency reports.

Capoy said the suspects managed to bring the guns onto the campus because there was only one guard on duty at multiple entrances and exits.

In other words, they got guns they weren’t supposed to have, then used them to injure and kill innocent people.

Both boys were arrested, but the 14-year-old will apparently walk because of a 2006 law that bars prosecution for anyone under the age of 15. I’m sure that’s going to sit well with a lot of people when the dust settles, assuming CBS News reported this accurately. Then again, they couldn’t resist calling the school shooting “rare” in the headlines. Bari Weiss still has a lot of work to do, it seems, and has a lot more people to fire for their bias.

Now, I get that being bullied sucks, and I’ve suspected that at least some school shooters did it because they were bullied. Still, the problem here is that this is not a healthy reaction to it, and this would be a great opportunity to see just where these two are similar to our domestic mass killers, if for no other reason than to potentially find what makes someone like this do something like this, versus those of us who just grow up with a dark sense of humor or other harmless, though potentially disturbing, coping mechanisms.

If we want to solve public mass shootings–and now how the anti-gunners want to define them, but real ones– then we’ve got to understand the psychology at work with these people. It’s not enough to tell us they haven’t been diagnosed with serious mental health issues; we need to delve in and see if there’s a condition that hasn’t been identified yet.

In the meantime, I’m going to be praying for the victims and their families.

Suffice it to say that all the gun control laws in the Philippines didn’t seem to do anyone a hell of a lot of good. Funny how often I say that.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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