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Comment by j fredenburgh on January 31, 2013 at 9:29pm

NRA VINDICATED" ARMED GUARFD STOPS SCHOOL SHOOTER AFTER HE OPENS FIRE ON CLASSMATES.... No gun-grabbing bill in the world would have done this. Atlanta, Georgia (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. ... Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown around 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said. The wounded boy was taken “alert, conscious and breathing” to Grady Memorial Hospital, said police spokesman Carlos Campos. He was expected to be released Thursday night. Police swarmed the school of about 400 students after reports of the shooting while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were kept at the locked-down school for more than two hours before being dismissed. Investigators believe the shooting was not random and that something occurred between the two students that may have led to it. Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis said the school does have metal detectors. “The obvious question is how did this get past a metal detector?” Davis asked about the gun. “That’s something we do not know yet.” The armed resource officer who took the gun away was off-duty and at the school, but police didn’t release details on him or whether he is regularly at Price. Since 20 children and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December, calls for armed officers in every school have resonated across the country. Update: Biden last week… Putting armed guards in schools would be a “terrible mistake.” Vice President Joe Biden figuratively slapped the National Rifle Association in the face on Thursday during a Google+ Hangout by indirectly slamming its suggestion to put armed guards in every school in the nation. “We are not calling for armed guards in schools…we think that would be a terrible mistake,” the VP said during a PBS “Fireside Hangout.” “The last thing we need to do is be arming school teachers and administrators,” he added. The Vice President did talk about allowing schools to hire more mental health professionals and ‘resource officers.’ Biden said the current proposal — some $40 million for schools to hire these individuals — will not fully cover the cost of implementing these strategies nationwide, but it is a “way to begin the process.” Via: Weasel ZippersSee More

Comment by j fredenburgh on January 16, 2013 at 2:50pm

Disagree with the 45 age...

Comment by Joanne C Daley on January 16, 2013 at 2:43pm

YOU ARE THE MILITIA!!!!

Comment by Joanne C Daley on January 16, 2013 at 2:42pm

As I am looking at the AZLEG.gov website to see what the Legislature are up to, I happened to find this which is  being amended to fix archaic language.....

26-121.  Composition of militia; persons exempt

The militia of the state of Arizona consists of all able bodied citizens of the state between the ages of eighteen and forty‑five years and all residents of the state between such ages who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, except:

1.  Persons exempted by the laws of the state or the United States.

2.  Idiots, lunatics The seriously mentally ill, totally blind persons and persons convicted of infamous crimes.

3.  Judges and clerks of courts of record.

4.  State and county civil officers holding office by election, and members of the legislature.

5.  Ministers of the gospel.

5.  Members of the clergy.

Now, how exactly are we to do that if this state follows the Pres edicts?????