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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAZENOVIA, Wis. - A ninth-grader shot his principal three times in a rural school just before classes were to start Friday, after a custodian wrested from the boy one of the two weapons he had carried into the building, the sheriff said. No one else was hurt.
The custodian took a shotgun from the 15-year-old before the student shot Weston Schools Principal John Klang with a handgun in the hallway near the school’s main entrance, Sauk County Sheriff Randy Stammen said. The student was in custody, he said.
Klang was in critical condition when he was taken by helicopter from Reedsburg Area Medical Center to UW Hospitals in Madison, hospital spokespeople said.
Authorities did not know the student’s motive and did not know if Klang was the intended target, Stammen said.
You might never know what caused this ? Maybe the principle got what he deserved,maybe this is just a disturbed child? I do know the world is just going to hell in a hand basket.
Where is school security? We need metal detectors and screening at all entrances to schools.
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Posted by David D. Weaver, New Tampa, FL on 09/29 at 09:50 PM
What we need are political leaders with a modicum of backbone to stand up to the neanderthals at the National Rifle Association. I believe in gun ownership but the abject proliferation of semi and automatic weapons that fire dozens of rounds a minute are ludicrous! Also, the sheer number of guns we have per capita is almost unprecedented. If I hear “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” one more time...No, “People WITH GUNS kill people”. It is incredible that we are the only industrialized nation that just sees school shootings as another typical daily news blurb. Question: How do you scumbag, lowlife gun lobbyist sleep at night? The most inane thing is that someone will follow my comments by saying something like “If you liberals would allow school teachers to pack heat, the gunmen would have been killed before anything happened...”. Yeah, let me know the first time that trite scenario actually comes to fruition.