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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 06:23 PM Jan 2013

CA School Teacher Talked Shooter Into Surrender [View all]

Source: TPM

IGOR BOBIC 3:43 PM EST, THURSDAY JANUARY 10, 2013

A Taft, Calif., school teacher and a campus supervisor talked a shooter into surrender on Thursday, the AP reports. At least two people were shot and the suspect is reportedly in custody.

Authorities described the shooter as a 16-year-old student who attended the high school. He was armed with a 12 gauge shotgun.

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CA School Teacher Talked Shooter Into Surrender [View all] DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

there's only one way to stop a bad guy with a gun.... oldhippydude Jan 2013 #1

You try that while I run away. joeglow3 Jan 2013 #3

Your more likely to take one in the back Tempest Jan 2013 #4

Probably. Because the person trying to talk to them would have been shot in about 3 seconds joeglow3 Jan 2013 #29

wow, more proof that the gun lobby lies through their stinking teeth samsingh Jan 2013 #2

Not everyone has a gun, but almost everyone has a voice ck4829 Jan 2013 #5

+3,500,000,000 CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #12

Why can't I rec individual posts? AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #13

'cause you don'tt believe in Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwd Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #20

Daaaaaamn son AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #21

;-) Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #22

Gun Nuttery would have preferred that the NRA armed teacher had blown the kid away. nt onehandle Jan 2013 #6

Two people of real character dealt honestly, courageously with the problem. Judi Lynn Jan 2013 #7

I would say three people... CanSocDem Jan 2013 #30

Teachers should get hazardous duty pay. Downwinder Jan 2013 #8

They really should. Cha Jan 2013 #9

Yes those overpaid union thug teachers! riderinthestorm Jan 2013 #11

Agreed, but I would be happy . . . fleur-de-lisa Jan 2013 #15

at gunpoint, right? frylock Jan 2013 #10

One way to stop a bad guy with a gun reteachinwi Jan 2013 #14

One hopes that all bad guys can be stopped with a little compassion marshall Jan 2013 #16

Probably not reteachinwi Jan 2013 #17

Adolph got rejected from art school, but it was a stupid, unempathic administrator who did it, and ancianita Jan 2013 #23

I seriously think a teacher in every gun shop is a GREAT idea. Hats off to teachers. Dems to Win Jan 2013 #18

And @ every table of local gun shows.They should get their principal's hourly rate for either place. ancianita Jan 2013 #24

If the shooter had an assault weapon there would have been no teacher and a room full of grantcart Jan 2013 #19

Out of curiousity, what makes you say that? AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #25

It discharged and wasn't very lethal was it. grantcart Jan 2013 #31

Well, they don't aim themselves. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #32

You mean they didn't have to whip the AR-whatever off the rack behind their desk... Hekate Jan 2013 #26

Let's put 60 seconds on the clock and see how many NRA talking points our gun-bots can put up...eom Kolesar Jan 2013 #27

Police would not have stopped a STUDENT at the school HockeyMom Jan 2013 #28