Today's Mass Shooting

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There's only one answer: Mandatory gun safety classes in public schools, to be taught on the new gun ranges provided by the funding I'm sure will be sailing through Congress any day now.
 
If it was a car he would have accidentally ran over someone and rammed into himself when showing it off.......
 
CNN: The school has metal detectors, and school resource officers were on site at the time of the shooting, said Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Dr. Lisa Herring.
 
If only the girl had been armed it would never had happened.

I'm sorry, I know we're not allowed to talk about guns after a shooting.
 
On the Michigan college shooting of parents...

LTC8K6 said:
He was acting loopy at school and his parents were called and he was sent to the hospital the night before.

The parents picked up their son at the hospital.

They then drove to the dorms to pick up the son's bags for spring break.

They were all in the dorm area, when the son came out of the building, went to the car, retrieved the gun, and then went back in and shot his parents.
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There are reports now saying that he "escaped" from the hospital at like 3am and police were tracking him as he walked around outside. Seems that his parents maybe didn't pick him up from the hospital after all.
 
Another shooting today but again not a mass shooting.

It's an ongoing standoff situation in Pomona, California. Police were chasing a guy in a vehicle then he jumped out and ran into an apartment complex. He went into a unit and then into a bedroom. Cops were at the bedroom door and he shot through it killing one officer and seriously injuring another. They don't know who this guy is. Not clear if it's his apartment or what.
 
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Another shooting today but again not a mass shooting.

It's an ongoing standoff situation in Pomona, California. Police were chasing a guy in a vehicle then he jumped out and ran into an apartment complex. He went into a unit and then into a bedroom. Cops were at the bedroom door and he shot through it killing one officer and seriously injuring another. They don't know who this guy is. Not clear if it's his apartment or what.
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Pomona's a pretty small force and I don't think they've lost a lot of officers in their history. This has got to be an ugly shock for the community.
 
At this point the standoff is about 18 hours. They have used a few flash bang grenades but he isn't surrendering.
 
Los Angeles Times said:
The shooting Friday night led to a standoff that ended about 15 hours later when the suspect, identified by authorities as Isaias De Jesus Valencia, 39, was handcuffed and taken into custody by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies...

According to an acquaintance, the suspected shooter suffers from depression and drug addiction. Valencia served in the U.S. Army and has two children, said Amos Young, who knew the suspect through his father's Pomona church, Kingdom of God Revelation Ministries.

Despite having a home, Valencia often slept on the streets and rejected help from his family, Young said...
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-officer-killed-pomona-20180310-story.html
 

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William Parcher said:
CNN: The school has metal detectors
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But they weren't operating on that day...

WHNT said:
An Alabama teenager is charged with manslaughter and illegal firearms possession in a classroom shooting that killed a fellow high school student in Birmingham.

The school has metal detectors, but officials said they weren’t in use that day. They haven’t said why...
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http://whnt.com/2018/03/09/teen-charged-with-manslaughter-in-alabama-school-shooting
 
Pomona cop killer was not supposed to have a gun...

Los Angeles Times said:
Before the shooting, Valencia had a history of arrests in the Pomona area, according to public records.

Nearly three years ago, he was sent to state prison for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition and discharging a gun in a school zone, as well as destruction of jail property, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation press secretary Vicky Waters. He was out on probation roughly a year later....
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pomona-cop-death-20180313-story.html
 
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I'd gather from some posters that if you have lots of guns, some will inevitably go off by accident.

I know that Captain_Swoop and Smartcooky were in their countries armed forces, so would like to know what their employers' attitudes were towards such occurrences? And how common they were.
 
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