Crime

2 Children Injured in Calif. School Shooting

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) – Two children suffered arm wounds Friday when a man fired several shots toward a crowd of elementary school students before two witnesses tackled him, authorities said.

The students, ages 6 and 7, were not seriously injured, Carlsbad police Lt. Kelly Cain said. The suspect parked his car around noon, jumped a fence and opened fire as he walked across campus in the north San Diego suburb.

The suspect, a man in his 40s or 50s whose name was not released, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Cain said. He is believed to have acted alone.

“He is possibly a transient who lives in the area,” Cain said. “He is not cooperating with the investigation. He probably has some mental health issues.”

Cain said the suspect was believed to have been tackled by construction workers. He didn’t know how many shots were fired.

Terry Lynn told KNSD-TV he looked out his window to see a man park his vehicle, jump a fence and fire a .357 Magnum revolver toward a crowd of children.

“He was saying something about the president, he was ranting,” Lynn said.

Lynn said he screamed, “No! No!” and rushed to the scene. By the time he arrived, construction workers had tackled the suspect. He helped restrain the man until police arrived.

“It was very chaotic,” he told the television station.

Witnesses said the man appeared to be firing randomly and was holding something that looked like a gas tank. Cain said a propane tank was found near his car.

“I heard a gunshot and I ran to Room 23,” said Kenny Speck, 6, who heard classmates crying. “Some kids went over the fence.”

Speck’s parents said it could have been so much worse.

“Who knows what could have happened?” said Tamera Wleklinski, his mother. “I am so grateful to the construction workers. They deserve lunch and free donuts for the rest of the year.”

Norma Cevallas, who picked up her kindergarten son an hour earlier, was at home when she heard four shots.

“We ran into a room and stayed there,” she said. “We didn’t want to come out.”

Jordan Sears, who was returning from a nearby lagoon, told The San Diego Union-Tribune he initially thought the man was not firing real bullets because no one fell down.

“I heard the first gunshot and turned and saw a guy with a jack-’o-lantern in his hand running and shooting at something,” he told The San Diego Union-Tribune. “First there was screaming, then there was silence.

The school was placed on lockdown while parents waited for their children in a nearby park.

“It was total panic not knowing what was going on and if our children were OK,” Robert Speck, 43, said after reuniting with his son.

Comments (80)

  • ANT-14
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:50am

    If anything restrictions on LEGAL gun owners should be eased. And we would have far fewer of these incidents including any that include the use of a firearm.And many that don’t for that matter!

    ……..I love my.45

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 3:32am

      So True.

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    • TrueGrit
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:19am

      Awhile back SAILOR was mention he loves his knife… or something to that effect.
      SAILOR – Knives have been made illegal in NYS since 2004-5.
      Any knife with a locking device or opening assist is illegal to carry…includung Bucks.

      Ant-14… your .45 and my Walther are more legal in NY than a Boy Scout Knife…
      any the law was not published in any paper.

      Check it out on the web.

      Wolverine

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:34am

    And since it‘s close to Halloween I’ll say “IF YOU DARE, Bwaaa,haahaha

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:32am

    @ASPIRE2BBEST, got a couple of other things you might want to check on also, Johann Friedrich Gerbart, Hegelian philosophy, Anthony Sutton, former research Fellow at the Hoover Institution Stanford University as well as California State U. Los Angeles, Adam Weishauph of the University of Ingolstadt. amd “Chapter 322” of a German secret society. Meetings are annually on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River at Bones Temple on campus for initiation ceremony.

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:18am

    @MIDAMERICN, it worked, sure got my attention.

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:29am

    @MIDAMERICAN, Is that for real? MSNBC said he was a tea partier and was ranting about Bush? I missed it. I was surfing around to see what everybody was saying. Looking for the ED show. If so, who did they say was their source for this information, or was it speculation?

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    • MidAmerican
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:43am

      I was being facetious about MSNBC. But, they need all the attention they can get. ;-)

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  • aspire2Bbest
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:24am

    Check on Wikipedia about the “Fabian Society”, beck is really uncovering the roots of the worlds problems! Socialist, progressives, marxists, all uniting to put us under “their boot”.
    AND our Attorney General is in cahoots with the whole lot.

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:13am

      I really hate to tell you this, but it goes waaayyy deeper than the Fabian Society, and a lot further back in time. These are just some in major establishment law firms: Lord, Day and Lord, Simpson, Thache, Bartlett, especially the Thacher family, Daivd, Polk, Wardwell, and Debevoise, Plimpton, the Rocefeller family law firm, now for communications: Henry Luce of Thim-Life, William Buckley or National Review, Alfred Cowels, pres of Cowles Communications, Des Moine Register & Minneapolis Star, Emmert Bates of Litton Educational Systems, Richard Ely Danielson of Atlantic Monthly,Russell Wheeler Davenport of Fortune, John Chipman Farrar of Farrar, Strauss, the publishers. The most prestigious award in journalism is a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. The first director of the Nieman Fund: Archibald McLeash. Now the Federal Reserve: Pierre Jay 1992 previously Vice President of Manhattan Bank, became First Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve was most noteworthy one, but a dozen others can be linked. Politics: Taft, Bush, Stimson, Chafee, Lovett, Whitney, William Bundy(CIA), Clinton, ect. Percy Rockefeller the Council of Foreign Relations chairman, Winston Lord, William F. Buckley (editor National Review), Johnathon Bingham congressman. I could go on and on but just look up The Russell Trust, The Order, Skull & Bones, Illuminati. Look up Terry L. Cook, Walter Isacsson and Evan Thomas “The Wise Men” Dwight L. Kinman. But if you do, you won’t sleep much eighter. Been knowing all this stuff for years. Been watching it play out for years. Hince the 40 day challenge.

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:18am

    You know years ago, if someone spoke of, or acted in any way whatsoever to try to overthrow the US, it was called treason, and punishable by death.

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    • aspire2Bbest
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:27am

      When was the last time that was enforced?

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    • MidAmerican
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:27am

      He won’t succeed…………because “Watchman”……….are many……and capable.

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  • MidAmerican
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:07am

    “In America, you can sleep safely and soundly in your bed at night, because rough men are willing to do great violence on your behalf.”

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:23am

      Don’t sleep much anymore, too informed. As my pawpaw WWII vet. used to tell me, “I sleep with one eye open, with my gun beside me”. And, I wasn’t afraid of anything eighter.

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  • aspire2Bbest
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:03am

    Well it‘s November elections and we are still trying to vote for the ’LESSER OF THE EVILS”!
    We must change this somehow, someone who deceives the electorate in any form, to be posted in government to represent us and commits any form of crime should be EXILED, never to return with penalty of shot on sight! No trials, no courts, forget the lawyers and judges, they will only make excuses for some sort of pardon. AND why would Barak and Michelle give up their law degrees?
    Research that a little, it answers a multitude of questions.

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:13am

      He went to Harvard? Wonder if he too was a member of the skull and bones society, as was Bush, both Bushs. Curious little thing, as were a lot of other presidents of this US.

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  • aspire2Bbest
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:52pm

    The LIARS SCHOOL, wouldn’t Obama, and Clinton be the best of professors to teach all the other government employees this heinous activity. Someone has, or is it learning by example?
    They are developing the next generation of “FABIANS” anything is fair if it furthers the objective of enslaving the U.S.A.

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  • Race
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:30pm

    Get used to it folks. This is what happens when laws, supposedly passed for the “common good”, are passed that create free-fire zones for bad guys. Can’t have guns on school or college property? Best wear your bullet-proof undies kids.

    When will people realize that laws will only be obeyed by the good guys, and that said laws are both ineffective and nothing more than a sop by politicians to look like they’re “doing something” about the problem????

    BTW- GUN CONTROL is hitting what you aim at, every time.

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:49pm

      Just ANOTHER good reason to home school. Many others.

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:06am

      Their whole thing is about getting our guns. They know that’s the only way they would even have a chance. Why else would they talk about taking our weapons, then allow people to produce a video game (headed for virtual reality), whose objective is to shoot and kill US soldiers in Afganistan, and killing Pres. Kennedy? Just what do you think that’s all about. It’s like GB said, it doesn’t make any sense, until you step back from the picture and look at it through their agenda. They are training our children, a form of propaganda, and a very dangerous one. With little parental supervision, no teaching of morals, changing our history, reality shows, and even cartoons, that portray children being disrespectful and disobidient and even vulgar and insensative, no church, no prayer, these are just some of the reasons we see our children going absolutely biserk, today, and a spike in these kind of things happening. If people don‘t take their children out of their hands before it’s too late, it’s gona get much worse. The schools are not going to get better, I don’t care what they tell you they are doing on better education. They’re bettering education alright. Better for them. The Nazis targeted the children also and turned them on their parents.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:29pm

    If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words? Do spoons make Rosie O’Donnell fat? Do cars run over people? I could go on an on. I’ll restate my original point; our guns, beiing an armed populace, is the only thing between our being a free country, and a fascist/dictatorship. It is the only reason that the Japanese & Germans did not try to cross our borders to attack us. Period. End of statement.

    So, Broker, define why it would be a good thing for us to become liberals? How would that make America better?

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:42pm

      Well said DAGNEYT. Although Bloomburg and Michelle do agree probably, that spoons make you fat, that’s probably the next thing on their list to ban after soft drinks and meat.

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    • Jamestown
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:43pm

      OMG….SPOONS MADE ROSE FAT….OPRAH NEVER SAID THAT…

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:26pm

    Naw, he’s probably going to be, mentally ill, bad childhood, previously abused, homeless victim of some sort. DON’T CARE! And making guns illegal will not solve anything. That’s what protects us all. They don’t need guns anymore anyway, they have thought of a million ways to do damage nowadays. True story: Last year in the notorioulsy dangerous section of College Park, in Atlanta, Ga, 2 armed criminals entered a house party of several students celebrating a birthday party at the end of the semester. After taking all the valuables, they discussed if they had enough amminution to kill them all, then they seperated the boys from the girls in seperate rooms. The students say they knew they were going to rape and then kill all of them. One of the students however had the forsight to be prepared for a night in College Park with his personal handgun. While the one criminal was distracted, the male student pulled his gun out of his backpack and threatened the criminal, he jumped out the window and fled. Then the student went to the girl’s room, where the other criminal 23 yr old Calvin Lavant was just preparing to rape his victim. There was an altercation, and shots were exchanged. Lavant jumped out the window but was fataly injured and died in front of his apartment bldg. only 1 block away. Thanks to the forsight and bravery of this young man several innocent lives were saved. The hero was unnamed. report by National Association of Gun Rights. 10-2-10

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  • MidAmerican
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:24pm

    If one of those construction workers were armed, the second gun on the scene would have solved that problem. News Flash – 21,397,364 gun owners did NOT commit a firearm crime today. I wonder if that guy had a propane tank license????? They should be outlawed you know. I would hate to die senselessly before my New York strip is medium well.

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  • SaraGolden
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:22pm

    A man with a gun and ranting about the president… let’s see, I’m guessing MSNBC, CNN, and the Huffington Post already have drafted plans to pin him as a Tea Partier. SIGH.

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:35pm

      More than likely, espically on the Ed show. No, the Ed show will blame it on GB & the tea party.

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:35pm

      Yep I see it coming after all we are the violent extremist dangerous people .

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    • MidAmerican
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:50pm

      Not only was the shooter a “Tea Partier”, MSNBC reports that it was President BUSH he was ranting about. Just wanted to clear that up.

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    • Jamestown
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:34pm

      Are you trying to say Bush didn’t do this?

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  • watchmanonthewall
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:01pm

    I wouldn’t be suprised to find that he is a “cult” follower of the NAACP guy that was at the polls, seen at another location screaming “I hate crackers, you gotta, kill some white babies”.

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  • CYBERFOX
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:44pm

    Oh God, I Bet Either Jack Thompson or that @$$Clown Leland Yee will blame “Violent Video Games” for this shooting just like they did with Columbine and Virginia Tech

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    • watchmanonthewall
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:06pm

      While I do believe that is partly true, that violent video games do desensitise people, espically the most impressionable, nothing is an excuse for doing these kinds of things, I don’t care what kind of homelife, childhood, mental illness, whatever. No sympathy here! Good thing I’m not on these jurys.

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  • Red Blooded
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:23pm

    Mama, I wouldn‘t be surprised to hear this guy’s lawyer use that argument…

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  • angrymob
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:56pm

    It‘s a shame that in today’s world this is happening but I want to raise one important question: Where is campus security when things like this happen?

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:08pm

      I work sometimes @ LAUSD you can’t control everything in campus , all high schools have Police presence 4 cofficers max. & they can’t cover all campus .

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    • Capitalist Mama
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:10pm

      @AngryMob,

      I am not aware of too many *elementary* schools with routine campus security. Even if they did, the most important thing to remember is that this person CHOOSE to start shooting children. Thank God for those brave construction workers.

      Let‘s not blame one person’s criminal actions on another person NOT stopping them. That’s not fair! It’s like saying: “It’s not my fault that I shot at those children, the campus police didn’t restrain me!”

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  • RobertCA
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:54pm

    Send him to Gitmo .

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  • krjones
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:52pm

    broker, why don’t you come confiscate mine?

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:51pm

    I believe in gun control as should everyone ……………hold gun with both hands, gently firmly pull trigger. …………………and for all those nuts committing crimes with and without guns……….firing squad

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  • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:22pm

    and I know its an old saying but, guns don’t kill people, People kill people

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  • broker0101
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:10pm

    If only there could be some manner of law enacted that forbade guns altogether, we could solve this problem once and for all…………….

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    • FreedomOfSpeech
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:17pm

      @broker0101 Then the criminals would be the only ones with guns.

      FreedomOfSpeech  
    • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:21pm

      lol if only it were that easy. But like my granddad use to say. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

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    • Capitalist Mama
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:21pm

      Yes, I agree. If only there could be a law that would prevent people from doing illegal things, such as shooting children…

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    • broker0101
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:32pm

      Take Bank Robbery for example. Since it was made completely illegal, there has not been a single attempted bank robbery………
      Seriously, you hangers-on here are DENSE. I suspect you may be Desperately Seeking a new (cult) leader as Mr. Beck’s unraveling progresses. (These are not his first “seemingly mysterious” “health” issues. I suspect it will not end flatteringly. Be prepared. And I don’t mean by stockpiling food and gold.)

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    • RichardSaunders
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:34pm

      Second Amendment? The Constitution? Let’s just guarantee the individual rights that YOU think people should have, huh? You want guns outlawed? Start the process for the Constitutional Amendment … otherwise you’re just another liberal who wants to selectively allow or not allow the rights that YOU “agree” with … That’s the problem with the Constitution … It’s an all-or-none kinda’ thing … Otherwise you’re just another Mayor Bloomberg … AND YOU “Know” better than the individual what’s “good for them”…

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    • broker0101
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:41pm

      RICHARDSAUNDERS, You could not have possibly illustrated my point for me in a better, more timely manner. Thank you!

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    • justsayin
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:43pm

      Sorry Broker but you proved Freedom’s point with that last comment. You are the dense one. And please tell me who is the “old cult leader” that we “dense hangers-on” followed? There ain’t nobody. We are not a cult because we happen to value Beck’s opinion and his quest for truth.

      I am guessing that you yourself worship at the feet of almighty Obama (or is it Olberman/Schultz?). That’s a cult if I ever saw one, given all his lies and BS. God bless you, danglin’.

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    • LoisLane1951
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:46pm

      While we’re at it, let’s outlaw five-gallon buckets since children drown in five gallon buckets every year.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:47pm

      Mark my words, JUSTSAYIN, Glenn Beck will turn out to be the most catastrophic embarrassment for the Conservative Movement in the history of the Conservative Movement. I‘m just sayin’.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:49pm

      I’m embarrassed to have most of you on my side. Please become liberals.

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    • DagneyT
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:51pm

      Our guns are the only things between freedom & facism, moron!

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:53pm

      Broker
      I don’t own a gun. but respect the right of careful gun owners to have them. Seems most of the gun probs happening in my location to be in the city’s(New Haven, Hartford, ) I’m embarassed to have you on our side. If he carried a knife would you ban all knives??
      Sailor

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    • Firefang
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:53pm

      I agree with freedomofspeech, criminals will always have access to the weapons they need and that’s unfortunate if it was that easy to get rid of guns people would have done it a long time ago, but if the bad people have guns it doesn’t do us much good to have sticks

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    • emilyyyjanelle
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 12:26am

      @FreedomofSpeech: Amen and Amen.

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    • CoFX
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:09am

      Hey Broker, if you want to get rid of guns in America, just start going door to door and take them away from the people who shouldn’t have them. You can start with my house in fact – just come on in anytime, don’t bother knocking.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 3:37am

      I’m not a gun owner nor a big fan of guns. But I believe in the Constitution and support the right to “keep and bear arms” (with limits, I don’t think that includes nuclear arms). In my opinion the problem with gun violence isn’t the guns, it’s the culture your raised in. Some countries, such as Israel and Switzerland, almost every household has guns.and yet, compared to the US, they have relatively low levels of gun related violence. Gun ownership in Japan is illegal, and they also have very low levels of gun violance (and sorry bumper sticker philosophers, the criminals don’t have guns either, or they don’t kill people with them in any case).

      For whatever reason, in the US as well as some other countries, there’s just a disproportionate number of people who view murder as an acceptable solution to problems. I love this country but for whatever reason, we raise more children to adulthood with the idea that sometimes it’s okay to kill another human out of hatred, jealousy or greed.

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    • Eagle07
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:56am

      Broker Beck will never be as embarassing to the conservatives as Obama is to the dimwits

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 9:25am

      Uh, Broker0101 – One of our constitutional rights, in the First Amendment is freedom of assembly. Now, that means if you don’t like the comments on The Blaze or are as you say in your own words “embarrassed”, you, my friend, are free to post elsewhere or not cruise the ‘Net at all.

      Have a nice day.

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    • mamaduck27
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:36pm

      JZS, could it be that so many young people thing murder is a viable solution because so many of their generation have been murdered by abortion? When society cheapens the lives of the weakest, it cheapens the lives of us all.

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    • kindling
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:47pm

      If it was not a gun it may have been a bomb. These nuts will find a way.

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:07pm

    Very sad. We live in a violent world. So young to have to face the horror of being shot by a lunatic.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 2:36am

      Glad the children are alright, and the men grabbing this madman (the gunman) are among the bravest of all people – anyone normally can disagree about almost anything, yet all people charge to the aid of even one child in danger regardless of the source.

      For Broker0101 I have a simple solution to the gun control subject, do as Sweden, Switzerland and Israel do – all men and women of military age carry guns or rifles and know how to use them. So, in this case man tries to kill kids – he goes away for good.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mixed art)

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 3:46am

      That sees to happen a lot lately – seems that shooting are more doing hard economic times.

      http://wp.me/pYLB7-cd

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:04am

      “He probably has some mental health issues.” Ya think?

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