Thurston High School

My stance on it is we've had too much talk.

My shooting was the Thurston High School shooting in 1998.

How many school shootings happened before that? And I'm not trying to take away from any school shooting at all, but everybody wants to just talk about Columbine on to present.

And it's been a... fucking problem since what the 70s 60s and we're my i don't like having conversations about it anymore something needs to be done we've been having conversations for so fucking long that it's ridiculous at this point that we're still having to have them is why i say that

Um, Burger King decided to market the film with its kids meals before it was rated PG 13.

Uh, so the film was released soon after, um, Oregon teen Kip Kinkle killed his parents and then went on a shooting rampage at Thurston High School in Springfield, killing two students and wounding 25.

The Kip Killigan action figure was not distributed in Oregon.

It's

Um, I've, I've sort of cut my teeth and came up through, you know, I was a student teacher, or excuse me, I was a substitute teacher at Marist High School in Eugene when the school shooting at Springfield happened.

Uh, that's at, um, what, Thurston High School? And, um, you know, that was sort of the first one that really hit close to home.

And so I've sort of come up through in public education living in this world of school violence.

And, um, you know, I, every time an event like this happens, it, you know, it's re- it's not normal.

So these are young kids.

And, you know, how do you explain to a kid, another student, what this was, what happened? You know, how do we explain to us? You know, for me, it takes me right back to the Thurston High School shooting.

And it was horrible.

What happened in Bend? A school shooting, Robin.

We will never know why he had the thought process of killing innocent children.

Yeah.

How do you rationalize that? um just jumping on now could you go into your experience from being in the eugene market when thurston happened um is that what you want me to do you want me to do that really is there anybody else i mean um it was um i mean i could tell you the story if that was you know is that what you want to hear i don't want to bore you you got the details on this I got a call in the morning of the Thurston High School shooting.

I was at home and a neighbor said her kids went there and she said that there's been a shooting at Thurston High School and she's kind of an overreactionary person.

All right.

And then coming in in the top three, huge jump for this guy, um, coming out of Thurston High School, the 6'6" wing, Trayson Hill.

I haven't had a chance to see this guy play, um, but heard a lot of very good things about him.

Um, Curtis, talk a little bit about Trayson Hill and his ascension up these ranks.

Um, nice, nice looking shot.

Um, sometimes you can get hidden when you're in Eugene, you know.

So he goes to Thurston High School, 5A level.

So, um, got a chance to see him play a little bit online, but also had some people ...

On March the 24th, 1998, two students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, our old buddy Dave Grossman's hometown... pulled a fire alarm and opened fire on classmates and teachers as they fled the school, killing five people and wounding ten others.

And on May the 20th, 1998, a freshman at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killed his parents.

Then the following day, opened fire at a school, killing two and wounding 25.

And each of these triggered national media coverage and speculation over what might have been the cause, ranging from access to guns, to violent media, to the deterioration of the American family.