Michael Carneal Tragedy
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In Paducah, Kentucky a 14-year-old student, Michael Carneal, shot and killed eight other students while at school. After stealing a .22 pistol, Carneal took it to school and fired shots, Five of them being head shots and the rest of them upper torso shots. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has trained several elite military and law enforcement agencies. When he told them about the shooting, they were surprised to find out a 14-year-old boy was able to shoot so accurately without ever firing a weapon previous to this. Grossman explanation for this tragedy is the overwhelming amount of violence in the media and video games.
Grossman has spent a quarter of a century as an Army infantry officer, a paratrooper, a Ranger and currently a West Point Psychology