PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia preacher, (click here) a teacher and police
helped persuade a 14-year-old boy to free 27 fellow students he held at
gunpoint in a high school classroom Tuesday, a standoff that ended
without a single shot fired, authorities and the pastor said.
No one was hurt in the hostage-taking drama that
rocked Philip Barbour High School on the ninth day of the school year in
the small Appalachian town of Philippi, home to about 3,000 people some
115 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ultimately, the boy's pastor convinced the boy to drop the gun and walk away. The pastor said his daughter is a senior at the school, and she had recently stepped in when she saw the boy being bullied.
Guns are the way the people of the USA settle ill will. Guns are the definitive method of revenge for injustice. It is called anarchy, it just doesn't feel that way because most Americans don't own guns.
"He's a child who's been bullied to the point where he just snapped," said Pastor Howard Swick with Haven of Hope Ministry in Philippi. "And I'm watching this 14-year-old child with a gun, crying. He looked completely hopeless and didn't know what to do, and realized he had taken this farther than he had ever wanted to go. He didn't know how to retreat."
After 1 p.m. Tuesday, the boy pointed his pistol at a history teacher and her students during a tense 45 minutes holed up in the classroom....
Oh, it isn't anarchy?
Hm.
Does a day go by there isn't gun violence in the USA? When 30 thousand people die every year in a country because of gun violence it is called anarchy.
By Henry K. Lee
San Francisco Chronicle
BERKELEY, Calif. — The loaded gun, badge and ammunition taken from a car (click here) at a popular East Bay shoreline park belonged to the UC Berkeley police chief, authorities said Monday.
Margo Bennett, head of the campus police force, lost her gun, police badge, ammunition, department-issued laptop, iPad, cell phone and diamond ring when her unmarked Ford Escape was broken into while it was parked near the Mudpuppy’s dog grooming business at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, officials said.
Bennett had gone for a jog before work Friday morning and returned about 8:15 a.m. to find her left rear window smashed, according to university officials and Carolyn Jones, spokeswoman for the East Bay Regional Park District, which manages the shoreline.
Bennett joined the UC Berkeley Police Department as a captain in 2002 and was named chief two years ago....
August 26, 2015
By Dan Diamond
...1. Gun-related deaths in America (click here) wildly outpace our peer nations
More than 32,000 people per year are killed by guns in the United States — at least.
The total number’s incomplete because some gun-related deaths are left out of CDC statistics, Adrienne LaFrance wrote at The Atlantic earlier this year. That’s partly because of privacy concerns, the mystery over some police-related shooting data … and the political consequences of taking on the gun lobby, LaFrance points out.
Notably, the CDC has avoided some research into gun-related injury, and the Washington Post suggests that “fear and funding shortfalls” are to blame....
2. More people now die by guns than by cars (click here)
For decades, the most dangerous piece of machinery was an automobile.
But now, it’s a gun.
That’s according to LaFrance’s article and a Center for American Progress report from 2014 that looked specifically at the mounting burden of gun deaths among young Americans....
Ultimately, the boy's pastor convinced the boy to drop the gun and walk away. The pastor said his daughter is a senior at the school, and she had recently stepped in when she saw the boy being bullied.
Guns are the way the people of the USA settle ill will. Guns are the definitive method of revenge for injustice. It is called anarchy, it just doesn't feel that way because most Americans don't own guns.
"He's a child who's been bullied to the point where he just snapped," said Pastor Howard Swick with Haven of Hope Ministry in Philippi. "And I'm watching this 14-year-old child with a gun, crying. He looked completely hopeless and didn't know what to do, and realized he had taken this farther than he had ever wanted to go. He didn't know how to retreat."
After 1 p.m. Tuesday, the boy pointed his pistol at a history teacher and her students during a tense 45 minutes holed up in the classroom....
Oh, it isn't anarchy?
Hm.
Does a day go by there isn't gun violence in the USA? When 30 thousand people die every year in a country because of gun violence it is called anarchy.
By Henry K. Lee
San Francisco Chronicle
BERKELEY, Calif. — The loaded gun, badge and ammunition taken from a car (click here) at a popular East Bay shoreline park belonged to the UC Berkeley police chief, authorities said Monday.
Margo Bennett, head of the campus police force, lost her gun, police badge, ammunition, department-issued laptop, iPad, cell phone and diamond ring when her unmarked Ford Escape was broken into while it was parked near the Mudpuppy’s dog grooming business at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, officials said.
Bennett had gone for a jog before work Friday morning and returned about 8:15 a.m. to find her left rear window smashed, according to university officials and Carolyn Jones, spokeswoman for the East Bay Regional Park District, which manages the shoreline.
Bennett joined the UC Berkeley Police Department as a captain in 2002 and was named chief two years ago....
August 26, 2015
By Dan Diamond
...1. Gun-related deaths in America (click here) wildly outpace our peer nations
More than 32,000 people per year are killed by guns in the United States — at least.
The total number’s incomplete because some gun-related deaths are left out of CDC statistics, Adrienne LaFrance wrote at The Atlantic earlier this year. That’s partly because of privacy concerns, the mystery over some police-related shooting data … and the political consequences of taking on the gun lobby, LaFrance points out.
Notably, the CDC has avoided some research into gun-related injury, and the Washington Post suggests that “fear and funding shortfalls” are to blame....
2. More people now die by guns than by cars (click here)
For decades, the most dangerous piece of machinery was an automobile.
But now, it’s a gun.
That’s according to LaFrance’s article and a Center for American Progress report from 2014 that looked specifically at the mounting burden of gun deaths among young Americans....
