accidental shooting at school

Oh, it gets better. The gun apparently didn't discharge inside the backpack. It discharged after he removed the gun from the backpack.

http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-na...-shooting-update-suspect-surrenders-to-police

For all you folks screaming about the parenting issue and things like respect for guns, that ship sailed some time ago. This wasn't like some gun-curious kid who snuck a gun away from home for the first time. He has already been in trouble with the law before.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/california.high.school.shooting/

So now he has felony charges.

Given what happened, I think the two students who tried to help the one with the gun not get discovered are ever bit as bad as the one who brought the gun to school.

I wonder if the step father will press for charges for the theft.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...ole-gun-from-his-step-father-source-says-.htm
 
Oh, it gets better. The gun apparently didn't discharge inside the backpack. It discharged after he removed the gun from the backpack.
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Exactly. The gun didn't go off sitting inside a backpack. He took it out and "accidentally" pulled the trigger. :rolleyes:

Interesting how the backpack has yet to be located! :eek:
 
The story keeps changing

accidentally discharged inside the backpack
took gun out and it went off
discharged when he reached into the backpack to get "something to eat"

And the backpack has not yet turned up in the hands of the police.

Something fishy here.....

A true accident seems farther and farther fetched....

And now they are saying the gun was a 9mm Beretta
not the most likely candidate for being fired by stuff in the backpack....unless it was cocked. And no word yet on where the gun came from before the kid got it....

Too soon and too few details for a good conclusion, other than things are not adding up to an accident the more time goes on..
 
If it's the same one I'm thinking of, the kid brought it to school because he was getting harassed by gangs on the way home every day.
 
If it's the same one I'm thinking of, the kid brought it to school because he was getting harassed by gangs on the way home every day.
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Do you think that is true or just the story he threw out to cover for his blunder? When guns go off unintentionally, people seem to become quite creative in trying to distribute the blame away from them.
 
A 9mm Beretta could be a 1934 model (9mm Corto/.380), or a model 70, not necessarily a Model 92 variant. A single action auto that is cocked and off safe would go off easier than a DA auto with a full DA pull. Until we hear what it was, and how it supposedly went off, we are just wasting our time.
 
Unless we see a picture of the gun (and not a stock file photo), the most we will probably know is "9mm Beretta". News reports seldom go into detail about the specific model of the gun. They will cover in detail the "feelings" of someone who lives in the neighborhood, but almost never report more about the gun than caliber and maker.
 
"" News reports seldom go into detail about the specific model of the gun. They will cover in detail the "feelings" of someone who lives in the neighborhood, but almost never report more about the gun than caliber and maker. ""

And they don't have to as the details of the gun aren't relevant to the vast majority of the readers. It's like when there is a auto crash or a farm tractor tips over, it's enough to say " Pickup truck ".

Feelings and local reaction are more universal. Besides, if so many people dislike the media ( not just on this board or the subject of guns ) , why do people still watch it?
 
But that un-possible. It's against the law for a kid to have a handgun and it's against the law for anyone to bring a gun to school. [snark off]

Sorry about that. I couldn't help myself.
 
I don't know the details of the story but from an outside point of view there appears to be multiple layers of problems here.


Kid doesn't know how to properly handle the gun.

Gun was brought to school.

The reason the gun was brought to school.
Nobody else in the building (faculty/security) had a gun. (Not that it would have mattered in this case but if it was a Columbine-style shooting it could help stop it.)

School unaware that it has problems and/or not taking measures to prevent them.

The kid could just be an ol' fashion whackjob or criminal.

Ol' fashion nutcases and delinquents are not locked-up or sent to certain "problem child" school to prevent them from harming others.

People don't realize the severity of the actions. (Guns are potentially deadly weapons. You're not just going to get grounded for two weeks.)

The list goes on and on.....
 
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