英語流行話題聽力:Unit 24 雷德湖高中校園槍擊事件

[00:00.01] Unit 24 Red Lake High School Shooting On March 23, 2005, 16-year old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather, 58-year old police officer Daryl Lussier, and the man's 32-year old girlfriend wit a 22-caliber gun before taking his pistol and a shotgun, [00:22.27] bulletproof vest and squad car to Red Lake Senior High School in an Indian reservation near the Canadian border. [00:31.22] As Weise entered the school through a doorway with a metal detector, he shot to death Derrick Brun, [00:37.29] an unarmed guard. [00:39.23] Then Weise shot at 62-year old teacher Neva Rogers, as well as some students, who fled into a classroom. [00:46.55] He chased them and opened fire, killing Rogers and 5 students, injuring 14 boys, and then continued to wander through the school, [00:57.07] firing randomly. [00:59.27] The 7 death toll made it the nation's worst school shooting since April 1999, when two students killed 12 classmates, [01:08.53] a teacher and then themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado. [01:14.39] Four police officers entered, and Weise fired on them as well. [01:18.53] At least one officer returned fire, but it was unknown whether Weise was wounded. [01:25.07] Shortly afterward, Weise went back into the classroom and shot himself in the head. [01:30.39] There was no suicide note. [01:33.29] Weise was from the Ojibwa tribe, also known as the Chippewa, one of the poorest Indian tribes in Minnesota. [01:41.54] His father committed suicide in 2001 and his mother stays in an old men's home for serious brain damage in a traffic accident. [01:50.44] It was later reported that a person who had posted on the site of the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party identified himself as" Jeff Weise, [02:03.06] from the Red Lake Indian Reservation." The writer said he disliked interracial mixing among the American Indians. [02:10.39] The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party issued a statement on its site confirming that Weise posted messages there. [02:21.06] The writer of those messages had tow user names:" NativeNazi" and Todesengel," which mean" Angel of Death" in German. [02:31.25]" I stumbled across the site in my study of the Third Reich as well as Nazism," says a March 2004 post. [02:39.20]" I guess I 've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations. [02:48.54]" Another 2004 posting says," As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing, there is barely any full blooded Natives left. [02:58.47] Where I live, less than 1 percent of all the people on the reservation can speak their own language ... Under a National Socialist government, [03:09.29] things for us would improve vastly," it said." That is why I am pro Nazi. [03:14.52] It's hard though, being a Native American National Socialist; people are so misinformed, ignorant and close minded; it makes your life a living hell. [03:27.52] NativeNazi NativeNazi also said he was a member of the Ojibwa tribe and" both my parents were Native American, [03:34.00] though from what I understand I also have a little German, a little Irish and a little French Canadian in my blood as well. [03:42.53]" The idea of Weise's joining a neo Nazi group is not surprising. In America people constantly run across Jewish Nazis, [03:51.47] gay Nazis, blacks who wanted to be white supremacists -- these are powerless people to whom images of powerful people are attractive.

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