On the morning of January 29, 1979, teenager Brenda Spencer took a break from shooting people through her window to answer the phone. On the other end was a reporter from the San Diego Tribune. He asked a few short questions to confirm that the young girl was indeed the culprit. “Yeah,” Spencer said. “Who do you think’s doing the shooting?”
The reporter then asked “Why?” and the answer Spencer gave would become famous. “I don’t like Mondays,” she said. “This livens up the day.”
We've been failing kids forever. Just a reminder 1979 was one of the first mass shootings at a school. By a girl. It's guns, its poverty, it's abuse, it's mental issues... it's stoppable.
We just have to want to address all the issues. Could you image the casualties with an AR-15 in 15 minutes?
Read the story here:
https://timeline.com/school-shooter-brenda-spencer-bf98e8bf106
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