Posted on 01/18/2011 11:36:55 AM PST by Zakeet
BREAKING: Three students were shot at Gardena High School in California, authorities tell Fox News.
Gardena Police Lt. Steve Pendergrass tells Fox News that there was a shooting on the campus of Gardena High School.
One suspect is at large and he is believed to be a student at the school.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
They just got him and he’ got a good tan, looks like
“GWe need more and tougher Gun Control Laws” meme in 5...4...3...2...1...
Rush talking about it now, possible Tea Party chapter there.
LAUSD says student brought gun in backpack to school and dropped the bag, discharging the gun.
“We need more and tougher Gun Control Laws” meme in 5...4...3...2...1...
err, that darn fast typing typo...
Oh, and since I keep getting irritated posts when I make comments like the one above, I should point out that this is me being facetious."
Wow, are you serious? That's sad that there are people who do not understand that you are being facetious. This saddens me to know even some of my FReeper brothers and sisters fail to use the "noodle" and make knee-jerk reactions...:-(
ping
Tea Parties!
Right Wing Radio!
Sarah Palin!
What we need is to raise taxes and legalize Gay Marriage - only that will prevent another tragedy like this.
In Gardena? Surely not, with several Crips sets claiming that territory..
I’ll file that mix under
“Recipe for Disaster”
"I didn't know there was a Tea Party Chapter anywhere near Gardena, CA".
Lax gun safety awareness by the suspect.
“A Los Angeles Unified School District official says the shooting was accidental. The official says the student brought a gun to school in his backpack, which fell onto the ground and apparently discharged. “
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-gardena-high-school-shooting,0,3329000.story
Two shot, not 3, and now being reported as an “accidental” shooting, when a back pack was dropped, and the student that brought the gun to school is in custody.
God bless and protect all in that School. Lord Father, extend your hand of protection over everyone involved, and met out your justice to the evil doer(s) responsible.
AMEN
Dropped the bag and shot three people?
Well, here we go again with a opportuity for the oh so predictable editorials unrelated to any factual reporting. From Ronald Reagan, through Columbine and Virginia Tech, and on to Phoenix the fiction will re-emerge that ever more precise laws preventing law-abiding people from carrying pistols or rifles will eventually force psychopaths to cower before rules restricting firearms.
However, a rigorous, twenty-year study by John Lott and William Landes from University of Chicago Law School supports expanding concealed carry in public places. Subsequent studies of national data in academic journals show 16 studies finding that right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime and show 10 with findings of no discernible effect. No exacting, peer reviewed study refutes their position.
Passage of shall issue laws correlates with large decreases in multiple victim shootings, and reduced harm when shootings actually occur. Use of citizen deadly force makes startling interruptions causing assailants to abandon or improvise assaults. Police then respond to incidences in progress, instead of arriving for body counts and paperwork.
Also important were absences of shootings. Public place shootings provide perpetrators leading roles in malevolent fantasies. Previously imagined screams and explosions suddenly penetrate their beings, embellished by intimate, self-created visual stimuli of human terror, bloody mists, broken bodies, culminating in splendid, convulsive suicides at their chosen moment. The latent presence of armed citizens provides a deterrent disqualifying certain places, and leading prospective murderers to abandon fantasies, or to seek a supportive “gun free” environment.
Rather than invite or allow licensed individuals greater opportunity to thwart violence, it seems more comforting for public officials and writers such as Dionne to weave pleasing elusions around an occasional Columbine, Omaha mall or Virginia Tech. We can expect public places to remain official islands of contentment for predators and psychopaths, during the ten-minute plus police response time.
However if we must suffer more rational firearms laws directed at instruments instead humans let us follow a more consistent, connected liberal logic. The unaddressed problem here obviously has to do with inflammatory rhetoric. For just one example consider that in Fairfax County Virginia guns appear to live passive lives. Yet as soon as they cross the Potomac River and enter the Anacostia area of Washington D.C., they become psychopaths when hearing rules associated with rigid gun control legislation.
We need to take a lead from the Obama administration, which has excised such phrases as “unlawful enemy combatant” and “war on terror” from any discussion surrounding the events of 9/11 and thereafter. Guns need to understand we are not at war with them. If we approach them with an open mind and without preconditions, then we can arrive at lasting détente.
Using this more embracing, benevolent approach to interacting with guns; legislation should consider ways to make guns feel welcome. Let’s require teachers with concealed carry permits to take their pistols to work. In this way guns would not feel offended, and would be unlikely to react violently.
Link to Study: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=272929
More Guns, Less Crime? The Case for Arming Yourself
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/11/more-guns-less-crime/the-case-for-arming-yourself
Oh it was a Glock?
......and not to repeal Obamacare and from now on do only what the Leftists want......
More likely a school-free drug zone.
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