Posted on 03/16/2005 12:51:41 PM PST by HereComesTheGOP
Pittsburgh (KDKA) A deadly shooting outside Carrick High School this afternoon has put the school on lockdown.
Officials have confirmed that one student is dead and two others were wounded in the shooting around 2pm.
According to authorities, police stopped a car outside the school and were running a check on its license plate when another vehicle pulled up and started shooting at the car.
One juvenile in the car was shot in the head and killed; a second juvenile was critically injured by gunshots. A third juvenile in the car was injured by flying glass. Authorities believe all three were Carrick High School students.
Police say the shooting may have involved an AK-47.
As a precaution, students have been kept inside the building past their normal 2:17pm dismissal while police officers swarmed the area; but they're expected to be released within the hour.
More than 1300 students in ninth through twelfth grades are enrolled at Carrick High School, which is located on Parkfield Street.
Because their response to a post where I talked about possible limits on military-grade weapons and had previously indicated my support for most gun rights, was to immediately accuse me of being a total gun-grabbing nut like Sarah Brady and Al Gore. Completely ridiculous. Like when someone calls a long-time conservative a commie socialist RINO just because they disagree on a single pet issue. Get a grip.
In one of my previous responses I stated that obviously a 6-shooter (yes, I did use that exact term) was not adequate for self-defense in all situations.
Here's another double-take:
My kind of ugly gun. Yes, it's an AK-47, but a 22-cal trainer.
look at the date this one 'came aboard'--another stupid liberal trying to sneak his/her 2 cents into Free Republic--down with trolls/back to DU
Yup. It's a plinker, not real suitable for any other use.
Now let's see if he can figure out which one's which.
RayBob, I grew up in Oakland. South Oakland to be exact...my neighborhood consisted of 16 foot wide, shotgun houses (no pun with this being a 'shooting thread'--a shotgun is a narrow row house where the back door aligns with the front so you could fire straight thru.) Today, in Shadyside, they would be considered 'townhouses' but I digress...there were two kinds of homeowners there...the 'natives' who lived there since their grandparents got off the boat...and real estate 'developers' who would buy one of these little houses and subdivide the he## out of it (6 small rooms = 4 minuscule apartments) stuff four or five foreign students into each apartment and recoup their original investment in about an hour and half. Home values plummeted, and my dad would just pray that Pitt would expand south of the Boulevard of the Allies for any reason...just to take that house off his hands...Oakland!!!
LOL...I know where Indianola is too...okay, how about Star Junction?
The Hill is black, by choice. Are you suggesting that whites should be forced to move in or a few Asians and Hispanics?
The Northside is the largest section of the City of Pittsburgh. Geographically, it covers more area than any other and more than many combined. Within that area, there are numerous all white, all black, and mixed race neighborhoods. How would you change that and why?
East McKeesport is a mostly white middle class neighborhood. It's not a part of Pittsburgh and is actually quite far away. Why would you include them in 'Pittsburgh'?
Are you from the 'burgh? Are you familiar with the layout? Do you know why almost every neighborhood name ends in 'Hill'? Pittsburgh self segregated since the beginning as immigrants for the same part of the old world moved close to others who spoke the same language and shared the same values and culture?
Are you suggesting that there is something wrong with that, then or now.
And I'll add, many of the neighborhoods are geographically defined by rivers, streams, hills, mountains, hollows, bridges, railroad tracks. The topography more than anything dictated the design (or lack of) for the Burgh and Allegheny County.
No. The city needs a fiscally sound manager to draw people and business back anywhere within the city limits. In the last 30 years, Democrat 'leadership' has cut the population in half. Pittsburgh was also a leader in Corporate HQs being located in Pittsburgh.
Now, where exactly downtown do you want people to live? And why is that a necessity?
We also had a house blow up in a gas explosion as well, it was a mile away from where I live. I even felt the shockwave hit my house.
Best chuckle I've had all day!
Correct.
They should be in *every* home's closet, not in the streets.
Right. And they cannot even identify the firearm.
MIGHT have been an EEEEEvil "assault weapon".
But I know that you've been dahntahn more than once. ;-)
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