California Shooting Almost A Mass School Murder Event
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It happens so often there’s barely a mention of it anymore. Mass shootings, one after the other, and the NRA, along with the president of the United States and three-quarters of the US Congress, still demanding blind loyalty to the insanity of the Second Amendment.
Another gunman, choosing targets at random, started shooting in a rural Northern California town Tuesday, killing four people at several sites and wounding others at an elementary school before police shot him dead.
According to the AP the gunfire began around 8am in the quiet community of Rancho Tehama Reserve.
Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said:
“It was very clear at the onset that we had an individual that was randomly picking targets.”
Witnesses reported hearing gunshots and children screaming at an elementary school about five miles down a road from where the shooting is believed to have started. Jeanine Quist, an administrative assistant with the Corning Union Elementary School District, said several people were wounded at the school.
Details, however, were still sketchy hours after the shootings, and authorities did not have a firm count of the wounded due to the number of places the gunman attacked, Johnston said.
Details, however, were still sketchy hours after the shootings, and authorities did not have a firm count of the wounded due to the number of places the gunman attacked, Johnston said.
Police recovered a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns. Two hospitals said they were treating a total of seven gunshot victims, including at least three children. At least one student was wounded at the school. Another child was shot while driving with a woman, who also was wounded, Johnston said. He declined to release the name of the shooter but said he was “aware” of a domestic violence incident that neighbors reported.
Rancho Tehama Reserve is described on its website as a “quiet private country community” where “the people are friendly and the pace is relaxed.”
Rancho Tehama Reserve is described on its website as a “quiet private country community” where “the people are friendly and the pace is relaxed.”
A gunman that Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston describes as on a “killing rampage” shot randomly at people and homes as he drove toward Rancho Tehama School in the town of Corning, 130 miles north of Sacramento, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Sources tell the Sacramento Bee that the suspect, who fired shots in at least seven locations before he was killed by police, was Kevin Janson Neal, 43. Johnston says he was on a “bizarre, murderous rampage” to “get even with a neighbor.”
Police say the rampage, which could easily have become a mass school shooting, lasted around 45 minutes starting around 8am. Police say the gunman killed two people near his Rancho Tehama home and drove to the school in a stolen pickup.
After driving away from the school, he rammed the truck into a car and fatally shot at least one passenger. When a citizen who had been following stopped his car to see if everyone was OK, the gunman shot him and stole his vehicle. Police say officers then rammed the car, forcing him off the road, and the gunman was killed in an exchange of gunfire.
This is America today. America, a nation awash in guns and blood. Blood on the hands of the president, congress, and the gun lobby, particularly the NRA.
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US Government Has Killed More Than 20 Million People In 37 “Victim Nations” Since WW2*
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That’s a bit different than implying 20 million people have been killed by guns in the United States.
Sorry. I’m unable to find a link or message under this name. Secondly, I’d rather you share links here, so everyone can learn from it. Thanks.
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I move that we take everything back to the time the second amendment was first written and enforce it solely on the grounds of what was available then. Yep, that’s right. If you want a gun to keep, honor, and use it must be a musket circa 1791. Anything newer than that requires a special permit.
Here! Here! Or, depending on who you are reading, Hear! Hear!
twenty million in 72 years? Where did you get that number? Isn’t that something like 278,000 people every year? or are you referring to the Peloponnesian War? The real number is closer to a million, but perhaps it makes more sense if you say in in Russian.
One of the impediments to understanding the problem and working at solutions is the endless repetition of ever more hyperbolic talking points designed to inflame one side and enrage the other so nothing happens. You haven’t bothered to define gun violence either, but why should you be different. Any transgression is permissible to the holy elect because the cause is just – what ever the hell the cause actually is.
An angry letter in my morning paper had some woman insisting we had to get rid of “Saturday night specials” Wearing a clove of garlic around the neck might help too. But no, it’s .50 caliber sniper rifles that can shoot down a plane, it’s printed guns, plastic guns and of course Saturday night specials. You can buy a machine gun at Walmart you know. I read that on line so it must be true. Weapons of war in the streets! Run! Hide! “if you go out you’ll get shot!” Says Trump.
Yeah, yeah, the NRA is run by some really bad people, but do we have to make it so easy for them to dismiss us as liars and idiots? Do we have to drive away allies and their ideas because they don’t agree with the talking points? No we don’t but yes we do.
The job is to convince people who see their guns as freedom. Without that we might as well be chickens clucking in a factory farm. You don’t educate, enlighten, convince or reassure people by demonizing, insulting or threatening. That’s all we do. We don’t even ask why there’s a sudden increase in a certain type of crime. What has changed? should be question one. Do I hear a motion?
…Do I hear a motion?… If you’re doing it right, you can hear all kinds of things 😉
20 million people have died since WW2 because of gun violence in USA !
About 1.17 million people have died in combat since the founding of the US. About 1.49 million have died of a gunshot since Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed in 1968, which is about as far back as we could find good data. No doubt there are a few million more, but not 20 million. Can you provide a credible link? Thanks.
So day ending in y has another shooting. I am not surprised about this at all.
Could it get worse?…probably 😞