Hillsboro man walks in front of school with shotgun

I just brought up CeC because there are a lot of kids around, and if a guy walked into one with a weapon it would get my attention. I wouldn't call the cops, or stalk him, or wish him harm, but if you're ok with banning public areas around a school from being trod while carrying, why not a day care or CeC?

Do you think schools have been targeted more than other workplaces? Military bases? Community hangouts? I'm not challenging, just questioning. In the last 15 years I can only think of Newtown where a guy walked into a school of the street and targeted a bunch of people. If you want to bring up Columbine and Va Tech (even though they were students, and not guys walking down the street) I'd even go there. What's that, like 3 in 15 years? Don't get me wrong, that's 3 too many and I wish they hadn't happened, but I don't know why schools would be targeted--other than the already-stated reason that, much like a military base, a bad person knows that there will be very little opposition because no one else is allowed to have a weapon. There've been mall shootings, restaurant shootings, airport bomb scares...

 

Great. Next we'll follow around some people at abortion clinics. Maybe following girls around and picketing outside their homes will be enough for them to knock off their behavior. After that, we can follow people coming out of the synagogue and mosque. Maybe a few of us standing on their front lawn picketing peacefully will get them to knock off their behavior. What's that you say? They aren't doing anything illegal? Who cares, when freaked-out populaces get involved!

I'm not saying that the principal didn't escalate things to the point that children were scared. I said that this guy walking down the street NOT ON SCHOOL PROPERTY didn't scare your children.

Ok.

 

I agree. And if the principal had decided to lock the door and call the police, I wouldn't have a problem with that. And since it's his/her school, they're welcome to lock down/lock out/do whatever they want to do. But that's not the blame of the guy walking down the street. That's the principal's responsibility. And if the guy had already been checked out multiple times by police, who knew what he was doing, and publicly lamented that it was a waste of their time but they felt they had to do it anyway, yet you still keep locking down the school and will continue to do so? Who's the one making the statement?

Maybe the opposite of the one the principal's trying to make. Why does a school have to go into emergency mode?

 

because you'll find A: more kids at a school B: a greater variety of kids at a school C: kids at school more often then CeC and D: it's a public building whereas CeC is a privately owned business.

Here are the school shootings that have taken place in the last 15 years (including Canada first, since they're basically us but with cute accents). I'm also including colleges/universities. I'm excluding the "off the street" criteria, because it (purposely) undermines the bigger picture, in that schools are not a good place to make a point about guns, AND it's why people reacted the way they did and why people think the guy shouldn't be defended, or praised for what he did.


W. R. Myers High School shooting 1999
Bramalea Secondary School 2004
Dawson College shooting 2006
C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute shooting 2007
Bendale Business and Technical Institute shooting 2008
Central Technical School shooting 2010
Les Racines de vie Montessori 2013

The US:

November 19, 1999 Deming, New Mexico 1 0 A 13-year-old girl fatally shot at Deming Middle School by Victor Cordova Jr., 13. Cordova stated he had intended to commit suicide but was jostled by others and the gun moved.


June 8, 1999 Lynwood, California 0 2 15-year-old Jessica Yvette Zavala and her 17-year-old cousin, Olivia Munguia, were shot by an unknown assailant outside Lynwood High School.

May 20, 1999 Conyers, Georgia 0 6 Heritage High School shooting: Six students were shot and injured by student Thomas "T.J." Solomon Jr., 15. A 15-year-old girl was hospitalized in critical condition, and the other victims suffered from non-life threatening injuries. Solomon initially faced up to 351 years of prison if convicted of aggravated assault and other charges,[194] but in 2000 he was found guilty but mentally ill and was sentenced to 40 years in prison and 65 years of probation.[195][196][197]

April 20, 1999 Notus, Idaho 0 0 Shawn Cooper, 15, fired two shots from a 12 gauge shotgun, in the hall near the front desk at Notus Jr. Sr. High School. There were no serious injuries, but some students were close enough to the blast to catch some shrapnel from the tile floor. Shaw Cooper had been undergoing treatment for Bipolar disorder.[193]

April 20, 1999 Columbine, Colorado 15 21 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17,
killed 12 students and one teacher, and wounded 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School.

December 10, 1998 Detroit, Michigan 1 0 Professor Andrzej Olbrot was killed by graduate student Wlodzimierz
Dedecjus, 48.[192]

June 15, 1998 Richmond, Virginia 0 2 A 14-year-old student of Armstrong High School wounded a teacher and a school volunteer.[191]

May 21, 1998 Springfield, Oregon 2 25 After killing his parents at home, Kip Kinkel, 15, drove to Thurston High School where he shot and killed two students and wounded 25 others. He was sentenced to 111 years of prison.

May 19, 1998 Fayetteville, Tennessee 1 0 Jacob Davis, 18, shot Robert Creson, 18, in a dispute over a girl.[190]

April 24, 1998 Edinboro, Pennsylvania 1 3 Parker Middle School dance shooting: Andrew Wurst, 14, fatally shot teacher John Gillette, 48, and wounded two students and a teacher at an 8th grade graduation dance.[188] He is serving a 30 to 60-year sentence in a prison for young offenders.[189]

March 24, 1998 Craighead County, Arkansas 5 10 Westside Middle School massacre: Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, killed four students and one teacher and wounded ten others as Westside Middle School emptied during a fire alarm intentionally set off by Golden.[187]


February 29, 2000 Flint, Michigan 1 0 At Buell Elementary School, 6-year-old Dedrick Owens, the youngest-ever school shooter, shot and killed classmate Kayla Rolland.[199]

May 26, 2000 Lake Worth, Florida 1 0 Lake Worth Middle School Florida teacher Barry Grunow was fatally shot by his student, 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, who had returned to school after being sent home at 1 p.m. by the assistant principal for throwing water balloons. Brazill returned to school on his bike with a 5-inch Raven semiautomatic pistol and four bullets stolen from his grandfather the week before. Brazill was an honor student. Grunow was a popular teacher and Brazill's favorite.[199]

August 28, 2000 Fayetteville, Arkansas 2 0 University of Arkansas shooting at Fayetteville, Arkansas, At approximately 12:14 pm, Dr. John R. Locke, 67, Director of the Comparative Literature Program was shot and killed in his office by James E. Kelly, 36, a Comparative Literature PhD candidate who had recently been dismissed from the program for lack of progress towards his degree. Kelly shot Dr. Locke three times before taking his own life in Dr. Locke's office after it was cordoned off by campus police.[200][201][202]

September 26, 2000 Louisiana 1 0 Darrel Johnson, 13, offender in Louisiana school shooting with one student fatality.[199]

March 5, 2001 Santee, California 2 13 Santana High School shooting: Charles Andrew Williams, a 15-year-old student, opened fire at Santana High School, killing two students and wounding 13 others. He was arrested and convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life with the chance of parole after serving 50 years.[203]

March 7, 2001 Williamsport, PA 0 1 Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School; she was depressed and frequently teased.[citation needed]

March 21, 2001 El Cajon, California 0 5 Jason Hoffman opened fire at Granite Hills High School, El Cajon, CA injuring five people. Hoffman committed suicide in prison in 2002.[204]

March 30, 2001 Indiana 1 0 Donald R. Burt Jr., aged 18, offender in Indiana school shooting with one student fatality.[199]

April 24, 2003 Red Lion, Pennsylvania 2 0 On April 24, 2003, eighth-grade student James Sheets entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols and subsequently killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself.[208]

September 24, 2003 Cold Spring, Minnesota 2 0 Rocori High School shooting. John Jason McLaughlin, aged 15, fatally shot two students at Rocori High School. A 17-year-old was killed immediately, and a 15-year-old died his wounds on


February 2, 2004 Washington, D.C. 1 0 Unidentified offender in Washington, DC school shooting with one student fatality.[199]

February 9, 2004 East Greenbush, New York 0 1 Jon W. Romano in East Greenbush, New York fired two rounds from a shotgun loaded with bird shot, wounding one teacher. He was tackled by the assistant principal and charged with one count of attempted murder[209]

May 7, 2004 Maryland 1 0 Unidentified 17-year-old offender in Maryland school shooting with one student fatality.[199]

March 21, 2005 Red Lake, Minnesota 9 5 Red Lake massacre: Jeffrey Weise, a 16-year-old student, opened fire at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, first killing his grandfather and grandfather's companion. He drove his grandfather's police vehicle to his high school, Red Lake Senior High School. Weise was armed with his grandfather's police weapons—a .40 caliber Glock 23 pistol, Ruger .22 caliber pistol, and a Remington 870 12-gauge shotgun. He shot and killed five students, one teacher, and then committed suicide. Five other people were wounded in the shooting.[210][211][212]
September 13, 2005 Chicago, Illinois 0 1 At Harlan Community Academy High School, a fight broke between two 15-year-old boys in the gymnasium. One of the boys took out a .25-caliber pistol and shot the other one in the leg. A police officer on duty at the school arrested the gunman. The suspected shooter was charged as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm.[213][199]

November 8, 2005 La Follette, Tennessee 1 2 Campbell County High School shooting. Inside the Campbell County High School office, Kenneth Bartley, aged 15, brandished a firearm and said "Yes, it's real. I'll show you. I never liked you anyway," and shot the school principal, Gary Seale. He then shot assistant principals Ken Bruce and Jim Pierce. Bruce later died from his gunshot wound.[214] Bartley was sentenced to 45 years of prison with chance of parole after serving 29 years.[215][199]

February 23, 2006 Roseburg, Oregon 0 1 14-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leodoro shot 16-year-old Joseph Monti four times in the back with a 10mm semi-automatic handgun, in the courtyard of Roseburg High School. Leodoro then walked away from the school campus and stood in front of a restaurant where he was confronted by six police officers. Leodoro then placed the handgun to his head and threatened suicide, while customers inside the restaurant and police officers convinced him to not pull the trigger. Afterward, Leodoro surrendered. He was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in July 2006, and will be held in prison until he turns 25 years old.[216][217]

March 14, 2006 Reno, Nevada 0 2 Pine Middle School shooting. In the hallway of Pine Middle School, 14-year-old James Scott Newman shot and injured two 14-year-old eighth grade classmates with a .38-caliber revolver that had belonged to his parents. A male student received minor injuries to his arm and torso. A female student was hit by a bullet that ricocheted, and received superficial wounds. Newman was subdued by a physical education teacher. Newman was arrested and initially charged as an adult on charges of attempted murder, use of a deadly weapon and use of a firearm by a minor but later plead guilty to different charges of two counts of battery with a deadly weapon, in which he had received sentencing as a juvenile. James Newman was sentenced to house arrest until he completed 200 hours of community service.[218]

August 24, 2006 Essex, Vermont 1 0 Christopher Williams walked into Essex Elementary School and opened fire, killing teacher Mary Alicia Shanks after killing his ex-girlfriend's mother, Linda Lambesis, at home.[219]

September 27, 2006 Bailey, Colorado 2 0 Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis: Duane Roger Morrison walked into Platte Canyon High School and took six girls hostages and sexually assaulted them. As police entered the classroom he killed one hostage and then shot himself. He died later that day in a nearby Denver hospital.[220]

September 29, 2006 Cazenovia, Wisconsin 1 0 Weston High School shooting: Eric Hainstock, a 15-year-old student, walked in the school building of Weston High School and shot the high school principal with a handgun after a custodian disarmed him of a shotgun in Cazenovia, Wisconsin. The school principal died, and Hainstock was charged and convicted of murder. He is serving a life sentence and will be eligible for parole in 2037.[221][222]

October 2, 2006 Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania 6 3 Amish school shooting: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, shot to death five Amish girls and wounded five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County.[citation needed]

February 8, 2007 Prineville, Oregon 1 A 18-year-old student at Crook County High School.[224] died of a gunshot wound to the head in an apparent suicide in the school's parking lot.[citation needed]

April 16, 2007 Blacksburg, Virginia 33 25 Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho, aged 23, shot and killed 32 students and faculty members, and wounded another 17 students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the same day. Cho committed suicide.[225][226]

October 10, 2007 Cleveland, Ohio 1 4 SuccessTech Academy shooting: Asa Coon, a 14-year-old suspended student, returns to SuccessTech Academy, where he fired shots at people inside the school building before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. He shot and wounded two teachers and two students.[227]

February 4, 2008 Memphis, Tennessee 0 1 At Hamilton High School, a 16-year-old student was shot in the leg during an argument with another student over rap music. The victim's injury was not life-threatening.[228]

February 11, 2008 Memphis, Tennessee 0 1 A 19-year-old senior was shot in his school's gym by a 17-year-old sophomore, following a feud that started off campus earlier in the week; after the shooting, the suspect hands his gun to a coach, saying, "It's over now."[citation needed]

February 12, 2008 Oxnard, California 1 0 Murder of Larry King: Brandon McInerney, 14, shot Lawrence "Larry" King, 15, in the head twice in the computer laboratory of E.O. Green Junior High School. McInerney was apprehended in a nearby neighborhood. King, who was homosexual, died two days later from his gunshot wounds. McInerney was initially charged with a hate crime, but that enhancement was later dropped. McInerney plead guily to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.[229][230][231]

February 14, 2008 DeKalb, Illinois 6 21 Northern Illinois University shooting: Steven Kazmierczak, 27, shot multiple people in a classroom of Northern Illinois University with a 12 gauge Remington Sportsman 48 shotgun, killing five and injuring 21. He then committed suicide. Kazmierczak was not a student at the university, but had attended it the years prior to the attack.[232][233][234]

August 14, 2008 Federal Way, Washington 1 0 26-year-old Omero Mendez was sitting in his car parked on the Lakota Middle School campus to wait to pick up his girlfriend's son. There, he was confronted by 16-year-old Luis F. Cosgaya-Alvarez and two of his friends who were inside an SUV. Cosgaya-Alvarez flashed gang signs at Mendez, and then shot Mendez once in the head. Mendez later died of his injuries. Cosgaya-Alvarez was arrested a few days later in Seattle and was charged with murder.[235] Cosgaya-Alvarez pleaded guilty to murder and weapon enhancements and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.[236]

October 16, 2008 Detroit, Michigan 1 3 Christopher Walker, 16, was killed, and three other teenagers were seriously wounded during a drive-by shooting at a primary school lawn adjacent to Henry Ford High School, where Walker and the other students were just dismissed from after classes ended. Three teenagers were arrested and charged in connection with the shooting.[237] William Morton, 15, the shooter, was sentenced to life without parole, and Devon Bell was sentenced to 42 years of prison.[238]

November 13, 2008 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1 0 15-year-old Amanda Collette was shot to death at a hallway floor at Dillard High School. The shooter, 15-year-old Teah Wimberly, was sentenced to 25 years to life on a first-degree murder charge.[239]

January 9, 2009 Chicago, Illinois 0 5 After a basketball game at Dunbar High School, a truck pulled over by the school, with shots being fired from inside it as people were exiting the school campus. Five people were wounded, three critically. Georgio Dukes, 18, was arrested and charged with five counts of felony aggravated battery with a firearm one week after the shootings. Police believe that the attack was gang-related.[240]

April 26, 2009 Hampton, Virginia 0 3 18-year-old Odane Greg Maye, a former student of Hampton University, followed 43-year-old pizza delivery man into his former dormitory, Harkness Hall. Armed with three guns, Maye took out one handgun and shot the pizza delivery man in the neck and stomach, wounding him. Maye then shot the dorm monitor twice in the arm and once in the leg. Maye then shot himself in a suicide attempt. Maye was convicted of two charges of malicious wounding, two counts of using a gun in a felony; burglary; and shooting in an occupied building. He was sentenced to 14 years of prison in November 2009, and was ordered by a judge to to pay more than $62,000 in restitution to his victims for lost wages.[241]

May 18, 2009 Cambridge, Massachusetts 1 0 21-year-old Justin Cosby was shot in the basement common room at Kirkland House, an undergraduate resident hall of Harvard University. Cosby was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound in his abdomen, and died the next day. Four days later, 20-year-old Jabrai Jordon Copney, turned himself in for the murder of Cosby.[citation needed]

May 18, 2009 Larose, Louisiana 1 0 At Larose-Cut Off Middle School, Justin Doucet, a 15-year-old student, asked his teacher if he could use the restroom. While in the restroom, Doucet took out a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun from his backpack and donned on camouflage clothes. The gun was registered to his father. Doucet entered a classroom that was not his, and pointed the handgun at the teacher. While walking towards the teacher, he demanded her to say "Hail Marilyn Manson!" and she did not respond. Doucet fired a shot at her, narrowly missing her head. Doucet walked back into the restroom where he shot himself in the head. He was transferred to Terrebonne General Medical Center in critical condition, and died one week later from his wounds.[242][243]

June 16, 2009 San Francisco, California 0 3 After students were being let out of International Studies Academy on the first day of summer school classes, a man exited a car and opened fire, wounding three people, including a 17-year-old female student. An 18-year-old man was arrested for being an accessory in the crime.[244]

September 3, 2009 San Bruno, California 0 1 A 20-year-old student was shot in the buttocks in the parking lot of Skyline College after an argument escalated between him and other men. Subsequently, the college campus was placed on lockdown. Three men San Francisco residents, Germaine B. Benjamin, 18; Dimaryea J. McGhee, 20; and Jacori W. Bender, 18, were arrested and were charged with felony firearm offenses.[245]

January 15, 2002 New York City 0 2 17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez shot and wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan, with a .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol. The motive was that the victims had harassed Rodriguez's girlfriend.[205][206] In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault.[207]

January 3, 2007 Tacoma, Washington, 1 0 18-year-old Douglas S. Chanthabouly shot 17-year-old Samnang Kok to death in the hallways of Henry Foss High School due to a personal disagreement. In 2009, Chanthabouly was sentenced to 23 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder.[223]

February 5, 2010 Madison, Alabama 1 0 14-year-old Hammad Memon shot to death 14-year-old Todd Brown in a crowded school hallway of Discovery Middle School, during changing of classes. The shooting was possibly motivated by gang activities. In May 2013, Memon plead guilty to the murder of Brown, and was sentenced to 30 years of prison. After Memon is released from prison, he is likely to be deported to his native Pakistan.[246][247]

February 12, 2010 Huntsville, Alabama 3 3 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: Amy Bishop Anderson, a biology professor, shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting. In

September 2012, she was sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of parole, and is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.

February 23, 2010 Littleton, Colorado 0 2 At Deer Creek Middle School, Bruco Eastwood opened fire from a Winchester Model 70 rifle in a parking lot. Two students, one female and one male and both eighth graders, were both shot and wounded. The boy's wounds were critical for the four days following the shooting. Eastwood was taken down by teachers and held until his arrest. In October 2011, Eastwood was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

September 8, 2010 Detroit, Michigan 0 2 Mumford High School shooting. Two students were shot and wounded in front of Mumford High School. A 17-year-old man, Steven Jamal Hare, was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill. In 2012, Hare was sentenced to 27 years of prison.[248]

September 28, 2010 Austin, Texas 1 0 Colton Tooley, 19, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, fired multiple shots around the campus with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle. Nobody was injured. After the shooting, Tooley walked into the Perry-Castañeda Library and then committed suicide.

October 8, 2010 Carlsbad, California 0 2 Brendan Liam O'Rourke, 41, opened fire with a .357 handgun on a group of children during their lunch period at Kelly Elementary School. Two girls, ages 6 and 7, were hit and grazed by bullets. A construction worker held down O'Rourke until police arrived. O'Rourke wanted to target wealthy children and chose that school as his place of attack. He was sentenced to life in prison.

October 1, 2010 Salinas, California 1 0 15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros is shot to death on an athletic field at Alisal High School. Cisneros was walking to the school campus at 8 a.m., and was shot multiple times. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.[249][250]

October 24, 2010 Topeka, Kansas 1 1 20-year-old Matthew C. Mitchell was shot to death on the grounds of Topeka West High School during a drug deal. A 17-year-old male was injured from five gunshot wounds. Police arrested three suspects.[251][252] 21-year-old Samantha Hochard was sentenced to 5 years for soliciting first-degree murder,[253] and 21-year-old Austin Tabor was sentenced to 24 years for first-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.[254]

November 29, 2010 Marinette, Wisconsin 1 0 Samuel Hengel, 15, took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. Before the hostage situation, Hengel stormed in the classroom with a handgun and fired shots at a movie projector while a movie was playing. After releasing all the hostages, police entered the building and Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.[255][256]

December 6, 2010 Aurora, Colorado 0 1 In a gang-related attack outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was shot and wounded. The wounds caused her to be paralyzed. Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon, 20, fired shots from a car while students were standing outside the high school, trying to shoot at a group of students who were believed to be gang rivals. Guzman-Ricon was sentenced to 35 years in prison.[257]

January 5, 2011 Omaha, Nebraska 2 2 At Millard South High School, student Robert Butler Jr., 18, shot and killed Assistant Principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar, and wounded Principal Curtis Case. Butler then opened fire indiscriminately in the front office area, causing the school nurse to be injured by gunshot debris. Butler drove to a parking lot and then fatally shot himself.[258][259]

February 2, 2011 Placerville, California 1 0 Schnell Elementary School Principal Sam Lacara is shot to death in his office, by John Luebbers, a custodial employee at the school. No schoolchildren were injured, but authorities believe that at least one student witnessed the shooting. In June 2012, Luebbers was sentenced to 50 years to life on murder charges.[260][261]

March 25, 2011 Martinsville, Indiana 0 1 Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School with a 9mm handgun. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen. Phelps fled the school and dropped the handgun in a field and was arrested shortly after.[262] As a result, Jackson suffered from life threatening injuries and underwent surgery three times, and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Phelps was convicted of attempted murder in August 2011, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 5 years of probation.[263][264] He will be eligible for parole in 2026.[265]

March 31, 2011 Houston, Texas 1 5 Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year old former student named Tremaine De Ante’ Paul, died. Five other people received injuries.[266]

May 10, 2011 San Jose, California 3 0 Napoleon Lavarias Caliguiran, 54, shot and killed his 25-year-old wife and a 26-year-old man in the fifth level of a parking garage of the San Jose State University campus. Caliguiran shot himself and died later that night in a hospital.

May 23, 2011 Pearl City, Hawaii 0 1 A 14-year-old student is accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student. The gunman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Two other suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting.[267]

October 24, 2011 Fayetteville, North Carolina 0 1 A 15-year-old girl was shot in the neck at Cape Fear High
School. She was hospitalized for two months at Duke University Hospital in serious condition. A .22-caliber rifle was used in the attack. A student of the school,15-year-old Charles Underwood, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.[268] Underwood was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.[269]

December 8, 2011 Blacksburg, Virginia 2 0 Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a part-time business student at Radford
University, shot and killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech, then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot.

January 10, 2012 Houston, Texas 0 1 One student was shot and injured after another student opened fire at North Forest High School. The student said that he was being confronted by three other students who were bullying him, and he took out a handgun and fired at them in self-defense. A 16-year-old bystander was unintentionally hit in the leg. The 18-year-old suspect was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.[270][271]

February 27, 2012 Chardon, Ohio 3 3 Chardon High School shooting: Thomas "T. J." Lane, 17, took a Ruger MK III .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School and fired ten shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Three students died in the attack; a 16-year-old boy died immediately, and two other male students died from their wounds the following day. Three other students were injured. Lane was arrested when he was standing near his car parked near the school, and was charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and firearms offenses. In March 2013, he was sentenced to three life sentences without the possibility of parole.[272]

March 6, 2012 Jacksonville, Florida 2 0 At Episcopal School of Jacksonville, fired Spanish teacher Shane Schumerth, 28, shot and killed head of school Dale Regan before committing suicide. Schumerth, who had been struggling with depression, was fired for incompetency around 8:30 a.m. on March 6, 2012 and escorted off school grounds. He returned to the campus at 1:15 p.m. with an AK-47 assault rifle concealed in a guitar case. He entered Regan's office and shot her multiple times before turning the gun on himself.[273][274]

April 7, 2012 Oakland, California 7 3 Oikos University shooting: One Goh is accused of shooting to death seven students and wounding three others in a classroom at Oikos University, a small Christian college. The gunman told the students in the classroom to line up against the wall, and exclaimed "I'm going to kill you all!" before firing the gun at them. He fled the scene, stealing a victim's car, and was apprehended hours later in a nearby location. The weapon used was a .45 caliber handgun. Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and is believed by his psychiatric to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.[275][276][277]

August 16, 2012 Memphis, Tennessee 0 2 Two Hamilton High School students were shot and wounded in the parking lot of the school. The attack was believed to be gang-related.[278]

August 24, 2012 Homer, Georgia 1 0 A 16-year-old student at Banks County High School fatally shot himself in a school restroom.

August 27, 2012 Perry Hall, Maryland 0 1 Robert Gladden, 15, took a double barrel shotgun to Perry Hall High School and fired two shots inside the school cafeteria. A 17-year-old senior with Down syndrome was hit in the lower back while he was sitting at a table and suffered critical wounds. Gladden was immediately subdued by two school faculty members, and was arrested. In February 2013, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison on attempted murder charges.[279][280][281]

September 7, 2012 Normal, Illinois 0 0 A student fired multiple gunshots in the ceiling of Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher. Nobody was injured. A 14-year-old student was arrested and is charged with 16 felony counts.[282]

September 26, 2012 Stillwater, Oklahoma 1 0 Cade Poulos, 13, fataly shot himself in the head shortly before classes started at Stillwater Junior High School.[283]
October 12, 2012 Fairmount, North Dakota 0 1 A freshman of Fairmount Public School shot himself in the head with a handgun in front of his classmates in a classroom. He was hospitalized in serious condition at a hospital in Fargo. Fairmount Public School serves all students from K-12 in the community of Fairmount, a town of 380 residents.[284]

October 31, 2012 Los Angeles, California 0 4 At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and a man pulled out a handgun and shot Geno Hall seven times, critically wounding him. Three other people, who were not students of USC, were shot and wounded and hospitalized with less serious injuries. Brandon Spencer, 20, was arrested for the shooting. He is charged with attempted murder.[285][286]

December 14, 2012 Newtown, Connecticut 28 2 Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school. Lanza brought four guns with him; A Bushmaster .223 caliber XM15-E2S rifle, a Glock 10mm handgun, a Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun, and an Izhmash Saiga-12 12 gauge shotgun which was later found in the trunk of the car and not used in the shootings.[287] During the attack, 20 first-grade children aged six and seven were killed, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psychologist. Two others were injured. Lanza used the Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle against all of the victims at the school. He then took his own life with one of the handguns as police arrived at the school. According to the state's chief medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver, all of the victims were shot between 3 and 11 times.[288][289]

January 10, 2013 Taft, California 0 2 A gunman entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a 12 gauge shotgun and opened fire. A 16-year-old male student, identified as Bowe Cleveland, was shot in the chest and critically wounded. Another student was shot at, but was not hit. The classroom teacher, Ryan Heber, convinced him to drop his weapon, and the gunman followed his order and was later arrested. Additionally, Heber suffered a minor wound from being grazed by a shotgun pellet during the ordeal. The gunman is suspected to be a 16-year-old student of the school, Bryan Oliver. Cleveland and the other student that was shot at are both believed to be intended targets of the gunman. On January 14, Oliver was charged with two counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm.[290][291]

January 12, 2013 Detroit, Michigan 0 1 A 16-year-old boy was shot in a field across the school campus after a basketball game was held at Osborn High School. He was hospitalized in serious condition.[292]

January 15, 2013 St. Louis, Missouri 0 2 A gunman shot an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, wounding him. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, shot and wounded himself on a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable conditions. Johnson was charged with three felony charges, including assault.[293]

January 15, 2013 Hazard, Kentucky 3 0 Two people were shot and killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham was arrested and charged with three counts of murder.[294]

January 16, 2013 Chicago, Illinois 1 0 A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games were being held on the university campus, and Lawson was a spectator at the event. Police arrested two people after the shooting and recovered a weapon.[295]

January 22, 2013 Houston, Texas 0 3 Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student, injuring him. A maintenance man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The gunman accidentally shot himself in the leg. After the shooting, the gunman fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was arrested.[296]

January 29, 2013 Midland City, Alabama 1 0 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis: A gunman, a man in his 60s, boarded a school bus and shot the bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66. Poland was killed. The gunman abducted a 6-year-old child and held him hostage in an underground bunker. The gunman was shot to death by police several days later.[297]

January 31, 2013 Atlanta, Georgia 0 2 A 14-year-old male student was shot and wounded in the back of the neck at Price Middle School. The gunman, a student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before taking out a handgun and firing multiple shots at him. In addition, a teacher was injured during the shooting. Afterward, the gunman was disarmed by a school resource officer and subsequently apprehended. He was charged with aggravated assault.[298][299]

March 18, 2013 Orlando, Florida 1 0 At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm went off at the Tower 1 dormitory. According to plans he had written, Seevakumaran intended to attract a large amount of people inside the building to gather and shoot them. He then pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened to shoot him inside their dormitory room. Seevakumaran released his roommate who ran into a bathroom to call 911. Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities found an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade bombs inside his backpack.[300]

April 19, 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts 2 1 At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Building 32 (Stata Center) at 10:48 p.m. EDT,[301] a campus police officer was shot multiple times.[302] The officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in nearby downtown Boston, where he was pronounced dead. The shooting was believed to be perpetrated by the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings that took place in Boston three days prior to this shooting.[303][304] The two suspects are brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
About three hours after the MIT shooting, Tamerlan died in a gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts. In that gunfight, another officer was shot and seriously wounded. Dzhokhar was arrested 18 hours afterward in Watertown, and was hospitalized in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the neck.

April 29, 2013 Cincinnati, Ohio 0 1 At around 8:00 AM EST, a student shot himself at La Salle High School, a Catholic school. The student, Joe Poynter, was hospitalized in critical condition at a Cincinnati hospital. According to police, no known threats were made to any other students or staff. Police arrived immediately after the incident was reported.[305][306]

June 7, 2013 Santa Monica, California 6 4 2013 Santa Monica shooting: Six people, including the shooter died and four others were wounded at or near the campus of Santa Monica College when a lone gunman opened fire on the school campus library after shooting at several cars and a city bus at separate crime scenes. The gunman, John Zawahri, was fatally wounded by responding police officers. Among the dead were the shooter's father and brother, both of whom died inside a house that was set on fire a mile or so from the Santa Monica College campus.[307][308]

August 20, 2013 Decatur, Georgia 0 0 A man with an AK-47 fired six shots inside the front office of Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, an elementary school. After the gunman fired the shots, he barricaded himself in the office and police at the scene returned fire. Nobody was injured. Children had to leave the building and were being guided to a corner of a field, where they were picked up by their parents. The alleged gunman is a 20-year-old male named Michael Brandon Hill. In the front office of the school, Hill talked with Antoinette Tuff, a woman who worked in the front office, who had called 9-1-1. Tuff talked him down, and helped him surrender to the police before anyone was hurt. Hill was apprehended.[309][310][311][312][313][314]

August 30, 2013 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 0 1 A 15-year-old student was shot in the neck and shoulder at Carver High School, at 2:30 PM. The victim was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. An 18-year-old student was apprehended by a school resource officer without incident.[315][316] The suspected gunman is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, carrying a concealed gun, possessing and discharging a firearm, and carrying a firearm onto educational property. The shooting was believed to be the result of an on-going dispute between the suspect and the victim.[132]

 

because they would rather be safe than sorry, considering the events I presented above.

 

I have yet to see someone praise the guy. I've been an advocate that he shouldn't be lynch-mobbed, run over, have his privacy illegally gained, or his home picketed by "freaked-out" people. Your wiki copy is (also deliberately?) misconstruing the issue into something that this is not: namely, a guy walked near a school (not ON school grounds) with a weapon. Legally. The cops were called, multiple times. They agree that he's doing absolutely nothing illegal.
Of those dozens of articles, the majority were colleges (which seems to take out the whole "kids safety issue", but whatever) and many others were disgruntled high schoolers doing illegal things. I'm all about keeping people from doing illegal things and hurting people. I'm also all about people not being hunted down, run over, harassed or victimized for doing things that are legal, yet incomprehensible to other segments of society. If the principal wants to set up a metal detector, go for it. My tax dollars (or yours, since it's your neighborhood) help with that. If the principal wants to search backpacks, no problem from me. If he/she wants to deny entry to a parent picking up their child who's carrying, I'm even ok with that, since that's the law. What I won't abide is people being terrorized because of fearmongering for doing legal things--whether they're walking-while-gay, trying to get an abortion, trying to pray at a place that makes sense for them, carrying a weapon down a street, whatever.

 

That's on them, then.

 

I was talking about the reaction of people, and his surprise that people didn't think "Oh hey, great point about the 2nd amendment!"

 

I'm a bit confused about your position here. That's what paxil and others are advocating. But to your point, following women home, targeting teens, picketing teens, passing out leaflets, saying (hateful) words, picketing mosques---those are all "peaceful". I think they're degenerate and sick. Are you for picketing a guy's house if he carried a gun, but not if his daughter went to an abortion clinic?

First, I think the article was specific that the gun was unloaded, but even if it was, why doesn't it qualify? He's not "protesting", he has every right to walk down the sidewalk.

 

Brian's right, as usual.

FWIW

 

you probably were too busy foaming at the mouth to see that I said I was kidding. Thus why I said the 8 mph thing.