Police respond to reports of shooting at Nevada middle school

[KillerK]

Police are responding to reports of a shooting at Sparks Middle School in northern Nevada.

[uniquemkt]

Link/source?

[Rochard]

CNN is always quick with this kind of stuff... Not much information really.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/justic...html?hpt=hp_t2

[2MuchMark]

Meanwhile in stupidville...

At the NRA convention in Houston this past weekend, a 3-year-old girl from Austin, Texas was honored for being the youngest life member of the National Rifle Association. Elaih Wagan shared the stage Sunday with her father, her grandfather and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre to accept the honorary award. Elaih’s grandfather gave her the membership as a birthday present.

Link: http://www.guns.com/2013/05/07/3-yea...t-life-member/

[_Richard_]

Meanwhile in stupidville...



Link: http://www.guns.com/2013/05/07/3-yea...t-life-member/

so you're saying this criminal would never have broken the law, if the proper laws were in place?

makes one wonder why they don't just make murder illegal

[uniquemkt]

There's always someone trying to correlate the NRA with gun violence, even though the statistics never support that correlation. People who learn gun safety, including handling, use, storage, are not the people using guns to commit crimes.

[Rochard]

There's always someone trying to correlate the NRA with gun violence, even though the statistics never support that correlation. People who learn gun safety, including handling, use, storage, are not the people using guns to commit crimes.

Clearly you don't know jack shit about the NRA.

The NRA used to be all about gun safety. In fact, it was less about "gun safety" and more about "rifle safety" being as back then members of the NRA was a lot less concerned about handguns (no less assault rifles). They used to hold classes on safety, and sell us yellow tinted shooting glasses, gloves, and ear plugs. I remember taking classes on how to pack your own shotgun shells. No one cared about our 2nd amendment rights because our 2nd amendment was never threatened; We hunted during hunting season, practiced at a range and attended safety classes off season - and maybe built deer stands. We also shot pheasant and duck, and skeet shooting too. Gun owners were hunters then.

Somewhere along the line - during the 1980s - the NRA changed and became more radicalized. Keep in mind that the NRA is in fact a business, and the more firearm owners they have the more business they have and the more money they take in. They stared to promote handguns for "personal safety". The NRA might have even had a point because in the 1970s response time for police officers were horrible, and you couldn't really trust them if they did in fact show up. The only people who had assault rifles were the nut jobs who lived out in the country and were afraid their government was out to get them.

Then they turned to assault rifles. More firearms, more money for the NRA.

Firearms used to be rifles and maybe even shotguns for hunters, and perhaps handguns for a few people who lived in areas where police response time was measured in hours not minutes. Now we have unstable eighteen year old kids with assault rifles killing people a dozen at a time in shopping malls, movies, and schools.

Now instead of taking our rifles to the range to make sure we can shoot straight during hunting season, we have twenty year olds who have never hunted a day in their life taking their assault rifles to the range because they need them for "protection". I have a friend of mine who is just like this; He seems to think his 90 lbs wife will be able to pull out his M4 and shoot someone dead with killing herself or their two children and it's fucking comical.

[Evil Chris]

and the hits just keep on comin

[Rochard]

Looks like a student shot his teacher.

Oddly enough I am on the phone with an older affiliate of ours from Cananda, and he has it on the news in the background he's like "What are teachers teaching the kids there in the US?".

[PornoMonster]

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...pect.wfie.html

http://bearingarms.com/gun-myths-des...from-abc-news/

[WoW!]

You might wonder Why it doesn't happen in any other country and only in US? priceless...

[PornoMonster]

You might wonder Why it doesn't happen in any other country and only in US? priceless...

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

[2MuchMark]

There's always someone trying to correlate the NRA with gun violence, even though the statistics never support that correlation. People who learn gun safety, including handling, use, storage, are not the people using guns to commit crimes.

Um.... WHAT ???

If you think there's no connection between the NRA and gun violence you have your head buried too deep into the sand my friend...

[2MuchMark]

http://bearingarms.com/gun-myths-des...from-abc-news/

That video is over 11 years old.

[PornoMonster]

That video is over 11 years old.

AND???

Guns have been around forever, the Basics does not change.....

[PornoMonster]

Listen, I purposely take the far stand on this, but in all honesty I am for stricter gun control at home. I have no idea how this kid got a gun and have not even read ONE word of the article. HA Yeah kinda trolling, but I stand by the reasoning, of my beliefs.

Some on the left live in fantasy land.... If, If , IF...

[CDSmith]

Another school shooting, another twenty 10-page threads of anti-gun vs pro gun bullshit.

yay.

[CDSmith]

You might wonder Why it doesn't happen in any other country and only in US? priceless...

Absolutely false. I wish it weren't so, but your statement is just so flat-out incorrect it's beyond words.

http://www.globalpost.com/photo-gall...ound-the-world


The oldest one I recall happened right here in Winnipeg, Canada back in the late 70's, and as it happens it was committed by the older brother of a girl who was in several classes with me.

I see it's listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting -- in the Canada section, 1978, happened at Sturgeon Creek High which is in the part of town I grew up in.

But similar incidents have happened in dozens of countries. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble.

USA-based ones are just the most notorious is all.

[L-Pink]

Blaming the NRA when someone uses a firearm to break a law is like blaming the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) every time someone breaks a drug law.

[Rochard]

Blaming the NRA when someone uses a firearm to break a law is like blaming the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) every time someone breaks a drug law.

Not at all - The NRA encouraged us to go out and get handguns and assault rifles.

In the past the NRA served hunters and promoted gun safety. Now instead the NRA has spent the pasty thirty years trying to increase their membership and their profits by encouraging us to buy handguns (because we all needed to protect ourselves as crime continues to drop) and we needed assault rifles because, well, because they are fun and our 2nd amendment rights are at risk.

This weekend here in my little hometown a 96 year old mentally ill woman shot at police offices who came to her door to do a welfare check. (This will most likely be the biggest law enforcement event in our town for the year!) Before we start to question why a 96 year old woman has the need to arm herself in a town where crime doesn't exist, we need to look at the fact that a mentally ill woman was allowed to have a firearm and no one said anything.

It's easier to get a weapon than it is to get a driver's license. And that's wrong.

[PornDiscounts-V]

Clearly you don't know jack shit about the NRA.

The NRA used to be all about gun safety. In fact, it was less about "gun safety" and more about "rifle safety" being as back then members of the NRA was a lot less concerned about handguns (no less assault rifles). They used to hold classes on safety, and sell us yellow tinted shooting glasses, gloves, and ear plugs. I remember taking classes on how to pack your own shotgun shells. No one cared about our 2nd amendment rights because our 2nd amendment was never threatened; We hunted during hunting season, practiced at a range and attended safety classes off season - and maybe built deer stands. We also shot pheasant and duck, and skeet shooting too. Gun owners were hunters then.

Somewhere along the line - during the 1980s - the NRA changed and became more radicalized. Keep in mind that the NRA is in fact a business, and the more firearm owners they have the more business they have and the more money they take in. They stared to promote handguns for "personal safety". The NRA might have even had a point because in the 1970s response time for police officers were horrible, and you couldn't really trust them if they did in fact show up. The only people who had assault rifles were the nut jobs who lived out in the country and were afraid their government was out to get them.

Then they turned to assault rifles. More firearms, more money for the NRA.

Firearms used to be rifles and maybe even shotguns for hunters, and perhaps handguns for a few people who lived in areas where police response time was measured in hours not minutes. Now we have unstable eighteen year old kids with assault rifles killing people a dozen at a time in shopping malls, movies, and schools.

Now instead of taking our rifles to the range to make sure we can shoot straight during hunting season, we have twenty year olds who have never hunted a day in their life taking their assault rifles to the range because they need them for "protection". I have a friend of mine who is just like this; He seems to think his 90 lbs wife will be able to pull out his M4 and shoot someone dead with killing herself or their two children and it's fucking comical.

That being said... Even back in the 1980's they were still about safety. I know a lot of women who benefited from those handgun classes. Who not only were safer, but also received a huge boost in their overall self confidence.

I'd say right around 1988 things began to change a lot and by 1994 the NRA was more of a white supremacist group than a gun safety group.

[L-Pink]

Not at all - The NRA encouraged us to go out and get handguns and assault rifles.

And liquor companies encourage us to buy and consume liquor.

Get over it already. Blame the idiots instead.

[WoW!]

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

Are you on crack? Almost all in USA...