School shootings are not just an American thing

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A student carrying a rifle used that rifle to threaten a security guard into allowing him to enter School No. 263.  Once the boy was in the school, the security guard called the police.  When they responded, the boy shot and killed one of the police officers, then killed a teacher.

He then took a classroom hostage, but let them all go before the police ended the siege.

No word, as yet, of any reason for the attack.

School shooting in Georgia

De Kalb County, Georgia

A 19-year old man allegedly followed an entering employee into Robert McNair Elementary School and ended up taking the front office staff hostage.

School children were evacuated out of the building, and as the police came, shots rang out.

Yet, luckily, no one was injured.

Children were bused to a nearby WalMart to be reunited with their families.

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