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Here is today's new story. Another school shooting
TAFT, Calif. (AP) — A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into a rural California high school on Thursday, shot one student and fired at others and missed before a teacher and another staff member talked him into surrendering, officials said.
And the school follows the NRA advice about an armed guard. But he was snowed in.
WASHINGTON -- Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., normally has an armed guard on campus to help officials with problems that go "beyond the scope" of the administration.
But on Thursday morning, as a student showed up with a shotgun and fired two to four shots at a teacher and a classmate, the officer was nowhere to be found.
"He couldn't get there because he was snowed in," Sheriff Donny Youngblood of the Kern County Sheriff’s Department said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile the NRA still feels we do not have enough firearms and wants no additional gun regulations
The National Rifle Association met with Vice President Joe Biden's school safety study group on Thursday and afterward said the participants spent most their time on proposals to limit gun rights. The NRA says it, quote, "will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen."
You know, they are talking about those career criminal 16 year olds who take their law abiding family gun to school to shoot people.
We should tax firearms and make the tax proportional to the U.S. firearm death/injury rate, to give an incentive to the gun industry to promote policies to reduce the high U.S. firearm death/injury rate. The U.S. firearm death/injury rate is about 10.2/100,000 people per year which is about 100% higher than Canada's firearm death/injury rate which is about 4.8/100,000 people per year. Meanwhile the gun industry makes about $1 billion in profits annually but it is estimated that the healthcare costs run anywhere from $40 billion to $100 billion per year.
So try to help decrease the shootings and sign the White House petition for a firearms tax at
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