Brenda Spencer, 17, got a rifle for Christmas and used it to shoot into an elementary school across the street from her home in San Diego, California.  Eight children and a police officer were injured, and two men lost their lives protecting the kids.  When the six-hour standoff finally ended, Brenda explained with a shrug, “I don’t like Mondays."

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

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