2 Shot in New Hampshire Town, School on Lockdown (Polling place, voting suspended)

[shadowrider]

DEVELOPING: New Hampshire State Police say one person is in custody after two people were shot in the North Country town of Pittsburg.

There's no immediate word on the condition of the victims.

State Police Major Russell Conte of the field operations bureau confirmed one suspect was in custody, but he didn't know if more than one suspect was being sought.

The kindergarten through grade 12 Pittsburg School was locked down after the 11 a.m. shooting and voting at the school was suspended.

School Public information officer Sheli Aldridge says all 130 students are safe and no one is coming or going.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/02/shot-new-hampshire-town-school-lockdown/

UPDATE: Shooting took place elsewhere, school went on lockdown according to procedure.

[de novo]

1. Nevemind, I saw where it said polling was suspended.

Most schools that operate as polling places don't have students in them.

[shraby]

4. Ours does, and the kids are having a little bake sale for their

band..it's an elementary school

[Bluerthanblue]

5. here in rural NH we have many schools in session and voting going

on.

I just voted at our school, and it was in session.

:shrug:

[X_Digger]

10. Our schools in VA closed on election day, as well. n/t

[onehandle]

11. They are being allowed to vote again.

Fox News left that part out.

[DrDan]

2. gun violence in the U.S. is a daily occurence

[lawodevolution]

19. Violence is also a daily occurrence in the UK

In some countries with gun bans like Mexico and Russia violences is an hourly occurrence.

[RSillsbee]

20. Is gun violence somehow different

than say, baseball bat violence or sexual violence?

[DrDan]

24. yes it is

[PavePusher]

25. Expound, please.... n/t

[DrDan]

26. sure - I have yet to see a bat-throwing drive-by

accidents by way of a gun greatly exceed those of bats

[RSillsbee]

27. acidents by way or car greatly exceed those of guns

what's your point.

[DrDan]

30. a simple point, really - but one made often

guns have one purpose . . . . to kill

can't say the same about cars.

[RSillsbee]

32. Guns have other uses

No gun I own has ever been used to kill since I've owned it.

[DrDan]

33. and those uses would be what?

[PavePusher]

34. You really need to stop playing the disingeuous fool.

They've been listed here many times, as you well know.

Besides, if cars are only intended for transportation, why do they seem to be used to kill so often?

[RSillsbee]

36. Uses for guns

Target shooting , self defense ( I have used a firearm in defense of myself w/out firing a shot)as a former machinist I like to take my guns apart and try to figure out what kind of tooling was used to make them, I was especially impressed when I bought a "used" S&W and found that the cutter marks on the slide were still sharp. They certainly hold their value I purchased a Mini-14 for 475$ before the election it's worth 800$ now.

Need I go on?

[rrneck]

37. Who were guns made to kill? nt

[PavePusher]

28. Firearms accidents are quite rare.

And I've heard of few bat-violence incidents were the bat-ist stuck around afterward. Does that make them drive-by's or simply get-aways?

Either way, the "drive-by" label is a red herring.

[DrDan]

31. weekly?

[oneshooter]

35. Vehicles kill on a daily basis. Lets ban them. n/t

[Glassunion]

38. No they don't.

They kill on a minute-ly basis.
They injure on a second-ly basis.

Car accidents kill someone every 12 minutes.
Car accidents injure someone every 14 seconds.

In the time it took me to type this, 2 people were injured in a car accident.

Every hour 4 people die
Every hour over 250 people are injured

2 more people were injured while I continued to type...

Every year over 42,000 people die in car accidents
Every year almost 3 million people are injured in car accidents

2 more people were injured...

[shraby]

3. That's one way to discourage the vote...unfortunately.

We are officially a third world country.

[onehandle]

8. Fox News left out the Fact that voters were being allowed to vote again.

See my post below.

[PavePusher]

22. No, we are not.

Unless, of course, you completely ignore reality.

Hyperbole helps no cause.

[PavePusher]

29. P.S. For the record...

I've lived in and visited a number of third-world countries.

I'm really tired of that utterly ignorant, stupid, fabricated fucking claim.

Show me evidence or retract your statement.

[onehandle]

6. Your Fox News link left out: 'voters were again being allowed into the building'

They left this out of the AP article. Another reason to never link to Faux News.

'But she said voters were again being allowed into the building.'

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2010/11/02/2_shot_in_northern_nh_town_of_pittsburg/

[shadowrider]

7. As with any breaking story, not all the facts are present other than the

immediate situation.

CNN and MSNBC do it too, it isn't just limited to Fox.

[Bluerthanblue]

9. it didn't happen at the school- the school went into lockdown

because of it's procedures.

Here's another link-

http://www.wmur.com/news/25605453/detail.html

[shadowrider]

12. Ok, so it's now being clarified. Thanks for the update n/t

[madmom]

13. using their 2nd amendment options?

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Nice strawman you've built there.

"Didn't someone here not long ago say this stuff never happens?"

By all means, point out someone who did.

[shadowrider]

15. Someone did say it, it's no strawman. However

since this shooting took place elsewhere, and NOT the polling station, I removed the comment and inserted an update strictly to be fair about the whole thing.

[dgibby]

16. MSNBC also reported it as a shooting at school, with voting suspended.

I haven't heard an update yet, but was away from the tv, so they may have corrected it by now.

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Who said it?

I don't like guessing games.

Edit: I don't actually doubt some idiot may have said something, but I doubt the person was credible enough to warrant a thread.

[shadowrider]

18. I don't call out people by name. It's agin DU civility rules.

All you have to do is to through the active threads on weapons in polling places to find it.

And they didn't get their own thread. I made a comment off the cuff and was wrong. The comment has since been removed.

[Katya Mullethov]

21. It isnt a person , singularly

It is about a widely held attitude .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=346067&mesg_id=346391

The attitude that those whom would carry a weapon of any type "into a chuckee cheese etc" are paranoid cowards and shivering nebbishes wallowing in their own fear and racism yada yada

[oneshooter]

23. Not Carry with a CHL, but "Tote" their weapons.

Personally I conceder the term "tote" or "toter" to be insulting.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas