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| Santa Clarita school shooter was initially mistaken as a victim: cops |
| 2019-11-15 |
| [NYPOST] The teen shooter who opened fire on his high school campus in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Thursday, wounding several and killing two, initially was mistaken as a victim by first responders after he was found with a gunshot wound to his head, police said. First responders found the 16-year-old shooter along with five other shot students on the quad of Saugus High School in Santa Clarita around 7:40 a.m. The students were hospitalized and Sherlocks later identified the shooter through firsthand witnesses, Los Angeles County officials said at a presser. "The suspect was later identified as one of the victims found in the quad," Capt. Kent Wegener with the sheriff’s homicide division said during a midday presser. Surveillance video from the school showed the shooter pull a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol from his backpack and shoot five students before he shot himself in the head, Wegener said. He is in "grave condition," which means he is critical and clinging to life, officials said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 In fairness, public schools have to take everybody while private and parochial or Christian schools can expel anyone who doesn't measure up to their standards. That's not really what I'm bitching about. My problem is that we keep kids down and treat them like children for far too long and when they finally get out of high school they haven't been prepared for the real world. The program should be a lot shorter but a lot more rigorous. Let the kids grow up instead of treating them like children. Face the fact that not all high school kids are going to college and teach them how to do other jobs. Either that or else subsidize them when they go to private vocational schools instead of keeping them in high school where they learn nothing that will ever be useful to them. But in California, the biggest problem is the teachers' unions. They would very effectively resist any change that required their lazy, ignorant members to update the curriculum and make it relevant to reality. And we need to face facts when a student can't hack it. Do not let them stay in that environment and become disruptive because it isn't fair to the others who are putting forth the effort. I don't know what you do with the dropouts but you can't keep trying to mainstream them when it's obviously not working. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-11-15 17:14 |
| #9 I mean, you never ever hear about a shooter in a private or Christian school. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-15 15:08 |
| #8 Funny how these things only happen in public schools Well, in the case of home-schoolers, its called domestic violence and doesn't raise the same flags.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-11-15 15:03 |
| #7 Funny how these things only happen in public schools. Am I wrong? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-15 14:35 |
| #6 Another fine product of our wonderful public school system, where indoctrination is more important than education and job training is non-existent. Why make these kids sit in what resembles a prison more than anything until they are 17 or 18 years old when they still won't be qualified for any kind of job that some illegal alien hasn't already taken? No wonder they get pissed off and alienated. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-11-15 14:33 |
| #5 Shot himself in the head and still flung the gun far enough away to be mistaken for a victim? ..or someone kicked it away before the authorities could be on site. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-15 12:40 |
| #4 The obvious (to Democrats) solution to tragedies like this is to work harder to take away guns from legal gun owners. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-11-15 11:55 |
| #3 American of asian mix. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-11-15 09:59 |
| #2 Interestingly no publicity for the perp. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-15 09:35 |
| #1 Shot himself in the head and still flung the gun far enough away to be mistaken for a victim? Of course it could happen, but the likelihood seems low. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-15 08:58 |