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1 student shot at high school in Taft, Calif.
TAFT — A student was shot and wounded at a rural California high school Thursday and a student suspect was taken into custody, officials said.
The shooting occurred about 9 a.m. at Taft Union High School, a community of fewer than 10,000 people amid oil and natural gas production fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
A shotgun was used in the attack, officials said.
As word spread, Dayna Hopper rushed to the school to pick up her son Joseph Sorensen, 16, and daughter, Cheryle Pryor, 15, who had called from Cheryle's cell phone.
"I panicked. I wanted to puke and just get here," Dayna Hopper told The Bakersfield Californian ( http://bit.ly/ZxkQUf).
KERO-TV Bakersfield reported that the station received phone calls from people inside the school who hid in closets.
The bell had just rung at a nearby school when teachers began shouting for students to get inside buildings, and the principal used an intercom to tell students to stay inside, Felicity Reich, 13, a student at Lincoln Junior High School, told the newspaper.
Shaken, she held the hand of her mother, Ellie Reich, as she spoke.
The student who was shot at the high school was flown to a hospital in Bakersfield, said Ray Pruitt, spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff's Department. There was no immediate word on the victim's condition.
Another person suffered some type of injuries in the incident but refused medical attention, Kern County Fire Department Eric Coughran told KBAK-TV.
It was not immediately clear how many students are enrolled at the high school, which includes 9th through 12th grades.
Masses of parents headed to the school football field to find their children, and officials at other schools took action to protect their students as well, the newspaper said.
The Taft shooting came less than a month after a gunman massacred 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then killed himself.
That shooting prompted President Barack Obama to promise new efforts to curb gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden, who was placed in charge of the initiative, said he would deliver new policy proposals to the president by next week.
At the state Capitol, Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said the thoughts and prayers of legislators were with the people at the Taft school.
"It really is just another very sad moment as we deal with the ongoing reality of gun violence that has captured so much of our attention this last year," Perez said.
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The shooting occurred about 9 a.m. at Taft Union High School, a community of fewer than 10,000 people amid oil and natural gas production fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
A shotgun was used in the attack, officials said.
As word spread, Dayna Hopper rushed to the school to pick up her son Joseph Sorensen, 16, and daughter, Cheryle Pryor, 15, who had called from Cheryle's cell phone.
"I panicked. I wanted to puke and just get here," Dayna Hopper told The Bakersfield Californian ( http://bit.ly/ZxkQUf).
KERO-TV Bakersfield reported that the station received phone calls from people inside the school who hid in closets.
The bell had just rung at a nearby school when teachers began shouting for students to get inside buildings, and the principal used an intercom to tell students to stay inside, Felicity Reich, 13, a student at Lincoln Junior High School, told the newspaper.
Shaken, she held the hand of her mother, Ellie Reich, as she spoke.
The student who was shot at the high school was flown to a hospital in Bakersfield, said Ray Pruitt, spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff's Department. There was no immediate word on the victim's condition.
Another person suffered some type of injuries in the incident but refused medical attention, Kern County Fire Department Eric Coughran told KBAK-TV.
It was not immediately clear how many students are enrolled at the high school, which includes 9th through 12th grades.
Masses of parents headed to the school football field to find their children, and officials at other schools took action to protect their students as well, the newspaper said.
The Taft shooting came less than a month after a gunman massacred 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then killed himself.
That shooting prompted President Barack Obama to promise new efforts to curb gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden, who was placed in charge of the initiative, said he would deliver new policy proposals to the president by next week.
At the state Capitol, Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said the thoughts and prayers of legislators were with the people at the Taft school.
"It really is just another very sad moment as we deal with the ongoing reality of gun violence that has captured so much of our attention this last year," Perez said.
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Apparently. I’m not following your point. Let’s just look at Homicide in D.C.
“They tracked homicides and suicides in the district from 1968 to 1987 and found that homicides by firearm fell by 25 percent and suicides committed with firearms dropped by 23 percent. Murders and suicides committed by other means neither rose nor fell—in other words, people didn’t use other methods to commit an act they already wanted to commit.”
If I understand what you are saying, Murders by other means neither rose nor fell. Since there was no change, then the 25% drop would have to be credited solely to Fire Arms. Regardless, the population dropped and the Murder rate rose.
Washington D.C.
1968- Population 809,000- Murders-195
1987- Population 622,00- Murders- 225
1991- Population 598,00- Murders- 482
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm
“They tracked homicides and suicides in the district from 1968 to 1987 and found that homicides by firearm fell by 25 percent and suicides committed with firearms dropped by 23 percent. Murders and suicides committed by other means neither rose nor fell—in other words, people didn’t use other methods to commit an act they already wanted to commit.”
If I understand what you are saying, Murders by other means neither rose nor fell. Since there was no change, then the 25% drop would have to be credited solely to Fire Arms. Regardless, the population dropped and the Murder rate rose.
Washington D.C.
1968- Population 809,000- Murders-195
1987- Population 622,00- Murders- 225
1991- Population 598,00- Murders- 482
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm
"Guns don’t cause violence but access to guns turns violence deadly and boosts the chances of lethal accidents."
RIGHT ON!!!
RIGHT ON!!!
Here’s how I see it: gun violence is a public health issue, and a big one. In the 10 years from 2000 through 2009, more than 298,000 people died from gunshots in the U.S., about 30,000 people a year. If you exclude natural causes of death and consider only deaths caused by injury, it is the second-leading cause of death over that time span; only car accidents (417,000) killed more people. (These numbers come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
Guns don’t cause violence but access to guns turns violence deadly and boosts the chances of lethal accidents. Look through statistics compiled by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the numbers speak for themselves:
•Two-thirds of the 179,000 homicides committed during the 2000s made use of a firearm, usually a handgun.
• If a gun is used during a domestic violence assault, there’s a 23-fold increased likelihood that the victim will die. Women who are victims of domestic violence are five times more likely to be killed if their abuser owns a firearm.
• Having a gun facilitates suicide. According to a California study, suicide by handgun is the leading cause of death in the first year after people buy one. Many don’t wait that long. In the first week after the purchase of a handgun, the suicide rate among firearm purchasers was 57 times as high as the adjusted rate in the general population. More than 75 percent of guns used in suicide attempts and accidental injuries of people under 20 were stored in the home of the victim, a relative, or friend. Would all these people have committed suicide if a gun had not been easily available? Some would have, of course, but the easier (and faster) it is to kill one’s self, the more likely a person is to do it.
The argument will be made that if an obsessive and insane person such as James Holmes, the Colorado shooter, is determined to kill, he (and it almost always is a he) will find a way to do so. That may be true but the AR-15 Holmes was using enabled him to kill with almost unparalleled efficiency and speed (until it jammed). Do we need to make it easy and legal for homicidal maniacs to rack up body counts? What justification can there be for allowing people to buy weapons with the ability to shoot 50 to 60 rounds per minute?
Gun bans can have an impact. In 1991, 15 years after Washington, D.C. banned handguns, researchers from the University of Maryland conducted a study to assess the impact of the ban. They tracked homicides and suicides in the district from 1968 to 1987 and found that homicides by firearm fell by 25 percent and suicides committed with firearms dropped by 23 percent. Murders and suicides committed by other means neither rose nor fell—in other words, people didn’t use other methods to commit an act they already wanted to commit. And there was no similar reduction found in the adjacent metropolitan areas in Maryland and Virginia. The D.C. gun restriction was repealed in 2008 after the U.S. Supreme Court found such ordinances unconstitutional.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robwaters/2012/07/24/gun-violence-the-public-health-issue-politicians-want-to-ignore/
Guns don’t cause violence but access to guns turns violence deadly and boosts the chances of lethal accidents. Look through statistics compiled by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the numbers speak for themselves:
•Two-thirds of the 179,000 homicides committed during the 2000s made use of a firearm, usually a handgun.
• If a gun is used during a domestic violence assault, there’s a 23-fold increased likelihood that the victim will die. Women who are victims of domestic violence are five times more likely to be killed if their abuser owns a firearm.
• Having a gun facilitates suicide. According to a California study, suicide by handgun is the leading cause of death in the first year after people buy one. Many don’t wait that long. In the first week after the purchase of a handgun, the suicide rate among firearm purchasers was 57 times as high as the adjusted rate in the general population. More than 75 percent of guns used in suicide attempts and accidental injuries of people under 20 were stored in the home of the victim, a relative, or friend. Would all these people have committed suicide if a gun had not been easily available? Some would have, of course, but the easier (and faster) it is to kill one’s self, the more likely a person is to do it.
The argument will be made that if an obsessive and insane person such as James Holmes, the Colorado shooter, is determined to kill, he (and it almost always is a he) will find a way to do so. That may be true but the AR-15 Holmes was using enabled him to kill with almost unparalleled efficiency and speed (until it jammed). Do we need to make it easy and legal for homicidal maniacs to rack up body counts? What justification can there be for allowing people to buy weapons with the ability to shoot 50 to 60 rounds per minute?
Gun bans can have an impact. In 1991, 15 years after Washington, D.C. banned handguns, researchers from the University of Maryland conducted a study to assess the impact of the ban. They tracked homicides and suicides in the district from 1968 to 1987 and found that homicides by firearm fell by 25 percent and suicides committed with firearms dropped by 23 percent. Murders and suicides committed by other means neither rose nor fell—in other words, people didn’t use other methods to commit an act they already wanted to commit. And there was no similar reduction found in the adjacent metropolitan areas in Maryland and Virginia. The D.C. gun restriction was repealed in 2008 after the U.S. Supreme Court found such ordinances unconstitutional.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robwaters/2012/07/24/gun-violence-the-public-health-issue-politicians-want-to-ignore/
Yes, I was stunned to hear it myself! We have over 300 million guns and then sum over here. Just where I live there has already been 2 deaths to start out the new year, from guns. In my little no where county.
OMG.....that many per year Teko? I'll have to look up the statistics for France.
Don't get me wrong, there is crime here, but there aren't people toting around weapons shooting people and children in the malls, schools, movie theaters. The gun laws are SUPER strict here.
Don't get me wrong, there is crime here, but there aren't people toting around weapons shooting people and children in the malls, schools, movie theaters. The gun laws are SUPER strict here.
Exactly the point. This country better start thinking. I heard we average about 30 thousand deaths a year to guns. Other countries maybe a couple of hundred. That is a pretty stark difference when you figure we are supposed to be a country that others look up to.
Goodness.....another one.
I read about these situations and they are truly ghastly. We just don't see this in France.
I read about these situations and they are truly ghastly. We just don't see this in France.
Ditto guys....
I hope the kid that got shot is going to be okay.
And for the 1st time in a while, I'll agree with you teko... thank god he didn't have an automatic weapon of some description.
And for the 1st time in a while, I'll agree with you teko... thank god he didn't have an automatic weapon of some description.
Thank God he didnt have a high powered weapon that shoots 30 rounds.
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