‘Our hearts are heavy': Four shot — one fatally — at Northern Arizona University

[Fred Sanders]

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Source: Washington Post

October 9 at 10:53 AM

One person has been killed and three others wounded in a fight that escalated into a shooting near a Greek-life dorm at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz.

The suspected gunman — 18-year-old freshman Steven Jones — is in custody, NAU Police Chief Greg Fowler said. The injured survivors are being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center.

“We awake this morning to a terrible tragedy,” university president Rita Cheng said at a news conference. Cheng called the shooting “an isolated and unprecedented incident.”

[Deadly shooting shakes NAU campus, but students are still expected in class]

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/09/one-dead-3-injured-in-shooting-at-northern-arizona-university/

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Students still expected in class? Nothing to see here, just the daily gun carnage, we will get custodial staff to immediately wipe the blood off the dorm room floors and walls. Never mind the yellow police tape and the massive trauma to everyone......go back to class?

"Isolated" and "unprecedented" death and carnage and blood-letting by gun at schools and campuses and just about everywhere else is.....isolated and unprecedented in Gunistan? Denial is strong in this one!

Did the President of this northern Arizona campus just awake from a 30 year slumber?

[Punkingal]

1. Yeah, this wasn't a "real" school shooting...

Just kids arguing outside a dorm.

[FSogol]

2. Remember the terrorist bombing scene in the Terry Gilliam movie, "Brazil"

Wonder if that restaurant was at Northern Arizona University?

[Plucketeer]

3. Ah phooey!

Only ONE dead? This ain't even worth readin' about. 'nother edoocashun insatooshun - 'nother blast-o send-o.

On the serious side, this has got to be makin' Wayne Lapierre froth with delight. Imagine all the parents of students makin' sure their kids are packin' when they send them off to college.
The upside is that once they graduate the gunsite gauntlet and find there's no jobs, they'll be partly pre-qualified for a military career!

[Fred Sanders]

4. The students were already packing, just like they were in Oregon....nothing stops lead from the Gun.

[BlueJazz]

5. By George, I like this new terminology. Should take the heat off of us normal people.

One person has been killed and three others wounded = A slight isolated, unprecedented, very rare, never to happen again in a million years, something that could have happened to just about anyone, a very curious accident, extremely not very normal incident.

Yes siree. Mighty fine.

[n2doc]

6. Real polite society you have there

Without guns, everyone would probably be alive with some bruises had they fought it out. Now one is dead, 3 wounded and one likely to spend a long time in jail and have the rest of their life ruined. Yay Guns!

[daleanime]

20. +1

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. School shooting #46 for this year.

And we still have 3 months to go.

This is horrible.

[workinclasszero]

18. I'm betting on 50 by years end

[DustyJoe]

8. That's nuthin

Chicago bangers will tell the namby pamby college boys, watch what real bangin is like as they go into a holiday weekend that will probably see double digit deaths and over 50 wounded. Difference will be their shootings only get a blurb after the weekend from the tribune and no candlelight vigils or groups in a circle with candles singing koombaya or any TV coverage or Obama visits for the grieving families.

[maxsolomon]

10. Its Kumbaya.

My Lord.

I agree with you, though. Obama should go visit the grieving families in Chicago - if there is an equivalent tragedy there, but those shootings come in 1's and 2's, not 9, 30, 15, etc.

Maybe a combined event with every victim's family from a weekend? Fox would have an aneurysm.

[Jim__]

9. Hey, stuff happens.

[Dems to Win]

11. The Second Amendment requires daily blood sacrifices

This shooting that made the news is just a small part of today's required bloodshed.

[workinclasszero]

19. Yup that liberty tree

is a thirsty bastard, and it loves to be watered with the blood of school kids.

[SoapBox]

12. So the shooter was part of the "well-regulated" militia?

Seems to be not very "well-regulated".

[groundloop]

14. Gun nut coming along to set you straight in 5.....4......3......2.......

[groundloop]

13. Damn that's scary.... when I was in school we fought and got bloody noses

This incident certainly sounds like one that would have ended with, at worst, a broken nose had it happened when I was in school. I was involved in some of that stupid, drunken behavior from time to time.... thank God guns weren't as prevalent then.

[Aristus]

15. "All good guys with guns. Shooting in Building 20. Calling all good guys with guns.

Guys?

Guys?..."

[geretogo]

16. I think all students registering in our colleges should have to buy life insurance

and be fitted for a coffin with prices to choose from . God bless our " armed mad house " America .

[workinclasszero]

17. NRA..More guns for all...good guy with a gun...prayers for the dead..guns don't kill people.....

We will keep saying the same tired BS that hasn't stop gun massacres in the past as the body count goes ever higher.

[uppityperson]

21. Locking as a duplicate. Thanks for understanding. Please add the article to the previous thread

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