One of the two shooters is to be set free....this is wrong...
Published on August 10, 2005
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(The information is from an AP article, the link is provided above, I wrote this intro, to try to get people to understand the feelings of the many witnessess, and victims of the shooting...)
Jonesboro Arkansas, march 24th 1998.....a normal day begins...then suddenly the fire alarm goes off...every one goes outside following the well known, even if some what dubious drill....then as soon as students file out of the school,and group together for role, shots ring out...and students and staff are either killed or wounded....five are killed in the attack...a school, community and nation is shocked at the outbreak of violence in what was considered a fairly safe haven...
Now, fast forward to the current day and time, seven years later. That day has lived in the minds of all of those involved in the Jonesboro shooting, some more traumatized than others, but it still clings to them.
Imagine you are one of those people that witnessed the shootings (or was injured), imagine your self sitting at home, enjoying time with your family, watching the evening news. Then a picture appears on screen of a man you remember too clearly; his name, Mitchell Johnson. You stand there shocked, and quickley turn the volume upl to hear that this man, one of two who opened fire on fellow students at your high school seven years ago, is to be released, because of a loop hole.....that has since been closed.
--- I can not even begin to understand how those who witnessed the shootings first hand would feel. I have never had anything happen that could compare. But, I feel this is wrong. This man/boy killed in cold blood, four students and one teacher died because his friend and him went on a stupid rampage. His mother, Gretchen Woodard, has said; "He'd give anything. He'd give his life 100 times over to turn this thing back. The best thing, I really believe, the best thing to do is give him a chance," she told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "Let him get out there and spread his wings and help other people." ( Link )
--Now, maybe i am being too critical, or too mean, but i honestly have my doubts that he is..."rehabilitated", or has repented. IMO, any one who kills isn't worthy of forgiveness...he/she has commited the worst thing one could do.
--Will any one forgive him? Is any one still afraid of him? How will (the victims) view him? According to his mother he has decided to not to return to Arkansas, but to attend college and become a minister. ( Link ) Is this a change of heart? Or is this a guise to ruse everyone? What do you think?