Taft school shooting today

usamamasan1
usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
edited January 2013 in A Moving Train
Kudos to the teacher who could very well have saved many lives with his actions.
Prayers for the victims.
A shotgun was used.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... rents.html
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    Thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. We are doing this too often.
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  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    There was training at the school this morning at 7:30.
    They discussed lockdown process and other topics. This may have helped keep the situation from getting even worse.
    20 rounds in his pocket. May have been a target of bullying.
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Also, shooter was using bird shot and apparently not slugs...
  • even flow - question mark
    even flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    The new headline down there is going to scream "NO SHOOTINGS ANYWHERE IN THE USA TODAY", and the nation will be proud for a day.

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  • Better Dan
    Better Dan Posts: 5,684
    even flow - question mark wrote:
    The new headline down there is going to scream "NO SHOOTINGS ANYWHERE IN THE USA TODAY", and the nation will be proud for a day.


    And the NRA will say "See. there's no problem with guns" :fp:
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    even flow - question mark wrote:
    The new headline down there is going to scream "NO SHOOTINGS ANYWHERE IN THE USA TODAY", and the nation will be proud for a day.

    That's exactly what I was thinking. good grief.
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    even flow - question mark wrote:
    The new headline down there is going to scream "NO SHOOTINGS ANYWHERE IN THE USA TODAY", and the nation will be proud for a day.

    That's exactly what I was thinking. good grief.


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  • push me and i will resist
    push me and i will resist Posts: 958
    I ain't touching this one.

    I'm all gunned out
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    push me and i will resist wrote:
    I ain't touching this one.

    I'm all gunned out

    The NRA will be in touch soon to give you a pep talk.
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    An unarmed teacher and an unarmed campus supervisor, untrained negotiators, when confronted with an armed man engaged the gunman and managed to get him to put his gun down.

    No need for a gun, even when faced with one. No doubt saving lives.

    No one dead this time.

    Would it have been different if it had been a nervous, twitchy 'packing' teacher?

    Oh... the school's resource officer (or armed police guard...) - oops... he wasn't there.

    I commend these people. Lots of wit about them.

    This will be my only comment on yet another shooting thread.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    redrock wrote:
    An unarmed teacher and an unarmed campus supervisor, untrained negotiators, when confronted with an armed man engaged the gunman and managed to get him to put his gun down.
    No need for a gun, even when faced with one. No doubt saving lives.
    No one dead this time.
    Would it have been different if it had been a nervous, twitchy 'packing' teacher?
    Oh... the school's resource officer (or armed police guard...) - oops... he wasn't there.
    I commend these people. Lots of wit about them.
    This will be my only comment on yet another shooting thread.
    ...
    I was able to talk a guy down who was pointing a gun in my face because I was with his ex-girlfriend (a co-worker of mine), at her house, watching T.V.
    I was just blabbering out a bunch of stuff about murder and cops and prison, all while working my way towards the kitchen door and ran out... pretty much screaming like a little school girl. I was able to have a stranger a few doors down call 9-1-1 to get the cops because i didn't know if he was going to murder/homicide them.
    When the cops got there, I showed them where she lived and after just a few minutes, they lead the guy out in handcuffs.
    Sad part... me and the gal weren't doing anything... we were just co-worker/friends, watching some T.V. after work. Nothing going on between us.
    ...
    It turned out, he was charged with felony kidnapping and plead out... serving a couple of years in jail and several years of probation. He wasn't a bad guy... just love sick and in possession of terribly poor decision making skills.
    And yes... the gun was legally purchased and owned.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,801
    What else can be said that hasn't allready been said ......
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  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Ban shotguns?
  • Moonpig
    Moonpig Posts: 659
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Ban shotguns?

    See, this sort of trollish stupidity makes me think it's not actually about the guns. It was clear the thread was winding down and you said this, really classy man, and given the subject matter and all, you really hold yourself in an esteemed light.
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Charges should be filed against shooters parents or his older brother if the firearm used wasn't locked, I believe that's the law here in California right?
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Charges should be filed against shooters parents or his older brother if the firearm used wasn't locked, I believe that's the law here in California right?

    as a gun owner, shouldn't you know the law if you were a responsible gun owner? and you have already admitted you don't keep it locked. what would happen if someone broke in, stole your gun, and shot someone? would you be charged with a crime? is that why you don't want guns registered? so it can't be traced back to you if this happens?
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  • dimitrispearljam
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    josevolution wrote:
    What else can be said that hasn't allready been said ......
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  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Charges should be filed against shooters parents or his older brother if the firearm used wasn't locked, I believe that's the law here in California right?

    as a gun owner, shouldn't you know the law if you were a responsible gun owner? and you have already admitted you don't keep it locked. what would happen if someone broke in, stole your gun, and shot someone? would you be charged with a crime? is that why you don't want guns registered? so it can't be traced back to you if this happens?

    I have never said I don't keep them locked.
    Get with the program.
    Try to keep up.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    so,no one get killed..great..ill save my tears for the next one...will not take long i guess..
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    you know you have a gun problem when a news channel giving a report about biden's meeting with the nra breaks in with breaking news of ANOTHER school shooting :fp: :fp: :fp:


    this happenend in my office on cnn.
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