12/15/2013

Some notes on the Arapahoe High School Shooting

The shooter was "very proud of being a socialist."

Attacker planned on killing multiple people and had many different types of weapons.  From Fox News:
The 18-year-old gunman who opened fire inside a Colorado high school Friday, injuring a fellow student and then fatally shooting himself, had entered the building with a shotgun, a machete and three incendiary devices in his backpack, and planned to hurt multiple people, authorities said Saturday. 
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said Karl Pierson likely was motived by retaliation against a faculty member -- probably a librarian at the school -- when he opened fire Friday at Arapahoe High School. Robinson said it appears the librarian was the initial target but that Pierson planned to hurt multiple people. 
Robinson said at a news conference that the teen bought the pump-action shotgun legally Dec. 6 at a local store. . . .
As often happens in these attacks, when someone confronts the attacker they simply give up.  From NBC News:
The 18-year-old Colorado man who shot a fellow student before killing himself Friday intended to shoot numerous people, but his rampage was interrupted by a school resource officer who responded to the shooting, officials said Saturday. . . . 
Confronted by the officer, the teen committed suicide less than a minute and a half after he entered the building, armed with a shotgun and multiple rounds of ammunition that he purchased legally, the sheriff said. . . .
More details from CNN: 
The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, Robinson said. 
Once he learned of the threat, he ran — accompanied by an unarmed school security officer and two administrators — from the cafeteria to the library, Robinson said. “It’s a fairly long hallway, but the deputy sheriff got there very quickly.” 
The deputy was yelling for people to get down and identified himself as a county deputy sheriff, Robinson said. “We know for a fact that the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area and, while the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life.” . . . 
They were just very lucky that there was an armed deputy sheriff available.

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Blogger Martin G. Schalz said...

"very proud of being a socialist"

I suspected that this was the case when news reports stated that the young man had strong political views, yet the news outlets did not make any mention of what they consisted of.

To put this in perspective, every time I watch a PBS political show, the left wingers are always rude, shout down their opponents, and are just plain nasty. Which is what happens to you most of the time, Dr. Lott.

I am of the opinion that liberals, not having an valid argument to present, simply resort to immature behavior in order to further their agendas.

Calm discourse, being the best way to exchange ideas and then learn from them, is something the left refuses to grasp.

Could it be that this young man chose to purchase a shotgun, attack a school, and then martyr himself as a means to promote more gun control? It is painfully obvious that his target was the teacher who led the debate society, and once again, the news failed to mention any motive why said teacher was the intended target. I'll bet that the teacher is considered to be a 'right winger'.

Mundus vult decipi!

12/16/2013 1:19 PM  
Blogger ThinkLonger said...

Was the deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer armed? Since the gunman gave up so quickly I would assume yes, but I can't find any clarification on this.

12/17/2015 10:48 PM  

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