I just received a phone call from Colleen telling me that there has been a school shooting in a middle school in Roswell, New Mexico. I Googled it and found that a 14-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been critically injured, and there may have been other victims. The shooter, reported to be a 13-year-old boy, has been captured.
Colleen added, "It's time for a grassroots movement to ensure that every school has one or more big burly armed deputies ready to respond to intruders!"
Here is a photo posted at the LA times of parents waiting at a Roswell mall parking lot to pick up their children.
Update: The shooter was 12, a 7th grader. He put a shotgun in a school band instrument case and went into the school gym, bumping into a girl in the hall on the way to the gym and saying "excuse me." Once in the gym he took the gun out of the instrument case and opened fire, hitting a boy in the face and a girl in the arm, according to witnesses. Then he shot up into the ceiling and dropped the gun, whereupon a teacher grabbed him. The two victims were treated at a local hospital and then airlifted to Texas Tech University Hospital, where they are in critical condition. Pray for them.
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