Librarians usually don’t want to fight, but library schools and magazines do.

The first one I know of that looks “modern”, a student coming to school and shooting at other students, was in Camden, New Jersey in 1914 but nobody died. The first one I know of where someone died as a result was in 1967.

Now there have been a lot of instances of people in schools being shot going back to the 19th century, but those were usually spontaneous fights between habitually-armed students, or an adult shooting at students, or a a student specifically targeting one person, usually a teacher. And a lot of accidental discharges of course.

Orwell was describing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which, like Freudianism, had wide currency among the intellectuals of its day but like Freudianism, has since been discredited.

For example, roughly half of human languages lack words that correspond to English “yes” and “no”, like Latin and the Chinese languages, but the people who speak those languages still can think of and express what we mean by them, they just need more words to do it in.

What the Left does with language is more-or-less rhetorical tactics, the most common I see being motte-and-bailey, question-begging, and equivocation. A child can be trained to see through them. An adult sometimes has difficulty finding the motivation, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(King_novel)
School shooter Michael Carneal actually had a copy of King’s novel.

I’m sure there was a school shooting somewhere that predates 1977, though I haven’t looked.

I was sufficiently impressed with the old movie Christine (1983), that I decided to read the King novel on which it was based. I thought it was rather good. John Carpenter directed the film, and then young heartthrob actor John Stockwell later became a decent director in his own right.

Well, OK, but the experts tell us it’s for the greater good…

Well, mostly… (but whose?)
Um, sometimes?
Er, hardly ever?
(So who ye’ gonna call…? Symantyx-Busters?)

“Erasing Encephalitis — Why Vaccine Brain Injuries Became Autism”—
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/10/03/why-vaccine-brain-injuries-became-autism.aspx

“There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.”

George Orwell , yet again, describes it best.

My generation all had to read To Kill a Mockingbird and encountered the word there.

At my public school we read “The Yearling” as a class. I don’t recall what grade I was in. I’m pretty sure that was the first time I encountered the word, “chifforobe.”