Report: At least two people shot at Taft High School

[onehandle]

Source: ABC

TAFT, Calif. - Officials have said that at least two people were shot at Taft High School. The shooting happened at about 9 a.m., and reports indicate that at least two people were shot.

The shooter was taken into custody at about 9:20 a.m. 23ABC news received phone calls from people inside the school who were hiding in closets.

Kern County Sheriff's Department officials are going room-by-room to secure the school.

Reports indicate that the first person shot was airlifted to Kern Medical Center and the second person denied medical treatment.

Read more: http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/report-at-least-one-person-shot-at-taft-high-school

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This is near Bakersfield California.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Oh, crap.

[marmar]

2. Where is this?

[Stuart G]

3. Bakersfield California............nt

[Brother Buzz]

6. Or is it the city of Taft....

West of Bakersfield.

[onehandle]

7. Yes. Updated. nt

[Floyd_Gondolli]

8. Taft is supposed to be the safest place in America

IN the event of a nuclear attack. It's because of the winds.

[Brother Buzz]

17. I can think of better places in California I'd choose to be during a nuclear attack

Lost Coast area comes to mind; I like the way the wind blows there.

But I guess the prisoners in Taft can be rest assured their stay will not be impacted much. The oil wells will be safe, too.

[DryRain]

9. Yes, Taft, the city and HS there

Reports indicate that the first person shot was airlifted to Kern Medical Center and the second person denied medical treatment.

The shooter was taken into custody at about 9:20 a.m.

[Stuart G]

10. Taft is about 30 miles southwest of Bakersfield...pop, 9300 approx. nt

[Tempest]

15. And very poor. n/t

[valerief]

4. Another day, another semi-automatic gun nut. nt

[brooklynite]

21. Unrec

...this happened an hour ago; we know nothing about the weapon used or the suspect

[Enrique]

22. semi-automatic unrec

[brooklynite]

25. ...and not every nut with a gun is a "gun nut"

[Hassin Bin Sober]

27. pew pew pew unrec

[Nanjing to Seoul]

5. is it time yet to talk about gun control? How many more children need to die?

[leftyohiolib]

11. HOW MANY DEAD CHILDREN WILL IT TAKE B4 THE LEAD-HEADS WILL AGREE THAT SOMETHING

NEEDS TO BE DONE

[jillan]

12. I have on msnbc and they have not mentioned anything about this. wtf?!????

[LoisB]

43. Not important enough, I guess: No one died, not enough were shot. I think we've reached the

point where shootings are only "news" if we have more than 10 victims. Sad.

[Chorophyll]

13. OMFG. Enough already.

We do not have to live like this anymore.

[Tempest]

14. My county

Highly conservative and has a high level of gun ownership.

[Pachamama]

16. Well, 30,000 deaths by guns a year - that's about 75 per day.....

Hey - Got to kickstart the day somewhere in America....

Good Morning Bakersfield!!!!

[Hugabear]

18. Fuck you, gun lovers.

I am sick and tired of gun lovers defending their precious guns when kids can't even go to school anymore without worrying about getting shot.

Too many gun lovers are more concerned with quibbling over semantics and wording, dismissing anybody out of hand who isn't an expert on various types of assault weapons and assault rifles.

I'm tired of hearing people say that getting rid of guns wouldn't solve anything, that there are too many guns, that it's pointless to even do anything now.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

[CountAllVotes]

20. +89,000,000+

One vote for every child in America!!!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!

[Chorophyll]

23. + zillions

This is fucking ridiculous now. If there are guns around, people are gonna get shot. Nobody needs a damn gun in 2013. People need to find a new hobby.

[rightsideout]

28. We all pay at the expense of their paranoia

[brooklynite]

19. Yesterday: Bakersfield school officials take part in shooting survival training

KBAK News:

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials from Southern California colleges and schools are being trained in how to survive an attack by a campus gunman.

A two-day seminar concluded Tuesday with a simulated gunman stalking a dormitory at San Diego State University. About two dozen participants from school districts and universities in San Diego County, Los Angeles and Bakersfield, along with some police and private security personnel, took part.

They practiced barricading doors, hiding, escaping and confronting the gunman.

The seminar was planned months before December's Connecticut school massacre.

[JoePhilly]

32. I think that's probably more useful than arming the teachers.

[Blue_Tires]

24. Disregard the story, people, it's all a hoax

[Hugabear]

26. That damn Obama, he'll stop at nothing to take our precious guns!

Although your post is dripping with sarcasm, I'm sure there are already plenty of gun nuts claiming that this is just another Obama hoax (along with last month's shooting) in an attempt to drum up support for gun control.

[JoePhilly]

34. YUP ... he had ACORN make it all up.

[Hugabear]

40. Seems to me that you're the one who is illiterate.

Read my post again.

I was referring to gun nuts who claim the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax orchestrated by the Obama administration in an effort to drum up support for gun control.

Seems like you just made a knee-jerk response to my post title without even bothering to read the post.

[mojowork_n]

39. "Nothing to see here, move along," you mean.

...It sure seems to be true, or at least I haven't seen a denial or correction, yet.

But be that as it may...

Something has to change. 2 more individuals added to the body counts, plus or minus, still aren't going to change the profile of the United States, compared to other developed countries:


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/gun-deaths-a-familiar-american-experience/

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left: 1em; border: 2px solid #6600cc; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 6px 6px 6px #999999;"]...the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a non-profit organization, points out that Americans still kill each other with guns at a level that is staggering compared to the rest of humanity.

A study in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery found that the gun murder rate in the U.S. is almost 20 times higher than the next 22 richest and most populous nations combined.

Among the world’s 23 wealthiest countries, 80 percent of all gun deaths are American deaths and 87 percent of all kids killed by guns are American kids....

[judesedit]

29. Background checks, a waiting period and INSURANCE. They can have all the guns they want.

[judesedit]

31. Assault weapons and clips not allowed. Period. You want an assault rifle, join the Army.

[DryRain]

36. I like the way you think, I'm "borrowing" that line of yours..

the next time I hear someone say, "I must have my guns, any guns I want to buy".

[liberal N proud]

30. How many more must be sacrificed before we do something?

[NCthraxman]

37. Do what?

It's already illegal to take a gun on a school campus. That does not seem to stop the problem. So, what are more laws going to do to really help this???

And, no, I'm not a gun nut.

[crim son]

47. Illegal is not enough.

The guns are out there and should not be.

[DryRain]

38. Thankfully no one died in this incident. But it makes no difference..

no one should ever be wounded by a gun, either, outside of war and criminals who bear weapons.

[rightsideout]

33. It was just a drill

Everyone back to their bunkers.

[backtoblue]

41. live report at your link now

[DryRain]

42. Any bets that the dad or mom or both of this shooter is...

a gun rights advocate, a solid middle class, (although poor) example of who allows their teen child access to guns?
Someone who thinks their own chilld would NEVER do something like this?

Yeah, about 10 million American parents have guns and teen or young adult children, think about it.

[Cleita]

46. Apparently, there was an armed guard there according to Thom Hartmann

who was just discussing the incident with Sheriff Arpaio.

[hack89]

44. Looks like a shotgun was the weapon used

The suspect is believed to be a student, Kern County sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt told the Associated Press, and police believe the weapon used was a shotgun.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/taft-high-school-shooting_n_2449261.html

[Cleita]

45. Kevin McCarthy is the Congressman for this district.

I wonder how he feels about guns now? btw This is just over the hills from where I live and in a Republican dominated district.

[klook]

48. "Teacher talks down student with shotgun, police say"

"Police: Suspect put gun down after teacher and someone else talked to him; wounded student airlifted to hospital."

Amazing work by these people who intervened.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/10/two-reported-hurt-in-california-school-shooting/?hpt=hp_t1

From another source -
The teacher in the classroom, along with a campus supervisor, "engaged" the shooter with conversation as students were evacuating, according to Youngbood. At one point the shooter put the shotgun down, and officers were able to take him into custody. The gunman's identity has not been released, however he was described as a 16-year-old male student who lives near the school, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.

"We want to commend the teacher and a campus supervisor to bring this to a quick resolution," Taft Police Chief Ed Whiting said. "They did a great job in protecting the kids."
- http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/10/16449709-student-shoots-two-at-california-high-school-sheriff-says?lite

[onehandle]

49. ...and once the student's guard was down, the NRA armed teacher blew him away...

...is how that sentence would be finished if gun nuttery had its way.