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To: SoFloFreeper
"The suspected shooter—a 16-year-old male student at the school—did not show up for the start of first period, police say. He entered the school with a 12-gauge shotgun and interrupted his first period class, shooting one student.

The victim, another 16-year-old, was airlifted to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., with a shotgun wound to the upper right chest. He is in critical but stable condition.

The gunman named a second student in the 28-person class and fired the shotgun again, but missed police said. A teacher and a campus supervisor engaged the shooter in conversation inside the classroom, school officials said, and were able to convince him to put the shotgun down. The shooter was then taken into custody by police...." http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/high-school-shooting-taft-california-183012601.html

74 posted on 01/10/2013 1:09:51 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee
A teacher and a campus supervisor engaged the shooter in conversation inside the classroom, school officials said, and were able to convince him to put the shotgun down.

Behold the new meme: "We can TALK our way through these things, see, no need for violence, and those bitter clingers don't get involved..."

79 posted on 01/10/2013 2:07:03 PM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Sirius Lee

That seems incredibly bad shooting for a shotgun—which is good news in this case.


87 posted on 01/10/2013 3:39:48 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Sirius Lee

we should not be talking about getting guns out of American homes, we should be talking about getting fathers back into them


107 posted on 01/11/2013 7:28:55 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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