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One student in critical condition, teacher wounded after California high school shooting

Published time: January 10, 2013 18:02
Edited time: January 11, 2013 02:04
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One student has been seriously wounded and a teacher has suffered a minor injury in a shooting at a high school in Taft, California. The incident comes less than a month after a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.

The attacker, who appeared to be a student, has been detained, according to police.

The 16-year-old victim is in critical but stable condition, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said adding that a teacher at the school suffered a minor pellet wound to the head. The teacher had tried to get the students out a back door, and then along with another staff member engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, convincing him to drop his shotgun.

Students hid in closets and phoned local media during the shooting, which occurred around 9am local time, local KERO-TV reports.

Officials from the Kern County Sheriff's Department went room-by-room to secure the school, and students were evacuated to the football field.

Taft, which has a population of around 9,000 people, lies about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

This latest public shooting comes less than a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman went on a shooting spree cold-bloodedly killing 20 children and six women. The tragedy triggered a national debate on guns control, with President Obama promising new efforts to curb gun violence.

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melvin polatnick (unregistered) 11.01.2013 23:17

Socialist democracies and its criminal gangs fear the wimp. With one small rock the wimp can beat a member of the toughest gang member into unconsciousness. But the wimp’s victory is short lived; it is seen as an insurrection which results in the wimp’s severe punishment.

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BS (unregistered) 11.01.2013 03:03

Feinstein really is an enemy of law abiding citizens. I really have to ask how such a tiny percentage of the world population is always in the thick of it? Liebermann, Cantor, Feinstein, Lanza? What are the odds of that? The guy wanting to trash the US Constitution has the surname of Seidman.

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Jim None (unregistered) 11.01.2013 00:31

The cause of this shooting is clear, it's a copycat shooting caused by all the publicity given to these shootings by the MEDIA. This is just further evidence that the first amendment is no longer appropriate for today's world and needs to be reinterpreted.  It was never intended to provide a license for lies and harmful info to be disseminated.  We aren't still living in the founders world where news traveled slowly and there was no one or two single mass market media companies that told everyone what was news and what wasn't.  In today's world we no longer have the luxury of allowing people and companies unfettered access to high speed printing presses and instant electronic communication.  For everyone's safety we need to have gvt control and licensing of the media.  There needs to be strict limits on how many pages per minute printers can print when owned by non-gvt agencies.  There needs to be limits on how much paper a private individual can own and stockpile.  There needs to be strict limits on the bandwidth an individual has access to and the number of megabytes of data they send daily.  No honest citizen has a need for more then a ream of paper per month or more then 200 megabytes per day of bandwidth.  And no honest citizen who values children's lives could object to prior censorship of content by the gvt.
  

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