Two Days Of Deadly Gun Violence Nationwide
Apparent Murder-Suicide At La. College Is Latest Of Four Incidents, Leaving 15 Dead
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Play CBS Video Video 6 Dead In Council Rampage A lone gunman opened fire on a city council meeting near St. Louis Mo. When the rampage was over, six were dead, including the gunman. Cynthia Bowers reports.
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Video Gunman Had A Grudge The gunman who killed 5 people in Kirkwood, Mo. City Hall before being killed by a cop had been involved in a dispute with the city council. Jennifer Miller reports.
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Video Six Dead In Council Shooting "CBS News RAW": Six people, including two police officers, died after a lone gunman opened fire on a city council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo. Charles Lee Thornton was then shot and killed by police.
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Jean Gutchewsky places flowers outside Kirkwood City Hall , Feb. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Undated photo of Michael Layne, who charged into his estranged wife Christi Layne's fifth-grade classroom Feb. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Portsmouth Police Dept)
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Scene of siege that ended in the deaths of a SWAT officer and four members of a family on Feb. 7, 2008. (CBS)
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Elizabeth Reilman, left, hugs Louisiana Technical College staff member Buffy Brinkley after Brinkley left the campus Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 in Baton Rouge, La. A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students then killed herself Friday morning police said. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller)
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Interactive School Shootings A look at major incidents at U.S. schools in the last decade.
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Interactive Guns In America State-by-state gun laws and death rates, maps of recent school and workplace shootings and facts on who's at risk.
In the latest incident on Friday, a young woman killed two female students in a college classroom at a Louisiana vocational college, then killed herself, police said.
The students apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Sgt. Don Kelly said.
The incident came on the heels of three other deadly attacks nationwide. In a St. Louis suburb, six people were killed when a gunman stormed a city council meeting. In Ohio, a man fired a gun and stabbed his wife in a school classroom, before killing himself. And in Los Angeles, a gunman killed four people before police shot him to death.
In Friday's Louisiana shooting, officers ran into the building within four minutes of the first 911 call, which came at 8:36 a.m., Kelly said.
"There was mass pandemonium, people running," he said. "One officer - the first into the classroom - told me he could still smell gunpowder."
One of the victims, 27-year-old Taneisha Butler, was a mother of three. Her husband, who arrived on the scene, told Anna Adair of CBS affiliate WAFB that his wife was a nursing student. The couple's three children are 4, 9, and 12 years old.
The school offers classes in a dozen subjects including early childhood education, practical nursing, drafting and welding.
Students had to stay in their classrooms for about two hours before being released for the day, said Louis Davis. He said he was taking a test for an automobile technology class when a teacher "said to stay in the classroom because there's been an incident."
He said they were allowed to leave after a police officer asked them brief questions.
School administrators and campus police did not return calls or e-mails.
Meanwhile, in Greenville, S.C., a student was shot in the leg at Greenville Technical College, but told police it was a self-inflicted accident, a campus official said. The wound was not life-threatening, said Brad Majors, the college marketing director. Majors said campus police and city police would continue to investigate.
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See all 441 CommentsWhy thank you and you are most certainly welcome!:):):)
Hmmm, gee, that''s weird because anyone that I have ever spoken to has always found Canadians to be very friendly and nice. Maybe they were just reacting to YOU.:)
''Hell, yes. I actually find it quite funny sometimes when a person, out of desperation to get back at you, will say whatever, even if it doesn''''t make sense.''posted by erasmus6
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I truly am not worthy to post in the same blog as you two. You are both brilliant. I commend you on your sound reasoning and awesome perception. Thank you for opening my eyes to the truths of your points of view.
Never, never would I think to laugh at either of you.
(cough.) I admit that asking a question is the same as making an accusation. (cough.) Your wisdom shall be remembered through the ages. (cough, cough.)
Farewell, 72-hour mavens - your words ring loud through the Hall of Sages. No, really. They do. Now don''t be modest, you scalliwags !
I don''t know if anyone has told you this yet, but in America the law of the land is called the CONSTITUTION.
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"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
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Hell, yes. I actually find it quite funny sometimes when a person, out of desperation to get back at you, will say whatever, even if it doesn''t make sense.
One of the reasons why the terrorists hate the U.S. is because they interfere with their countries and push their immoral ways on them. Canada on the other hand tries to mind it''s own business.
I have no doubt that what happens to you will effect us but you are wrong about them hating us as much as you.
When you travel to other countries it is a well known fact that Canada is well liked and the U.S isn''t. We are always told to make sure we wear a Canadian pin or something so people know we aren''t Americans.
There is one thing that I have learned from reading the articles and comments on this website and that is Canada and the U.S. are totally different in the way they think and do things.
Hahahaha, are you telling me that you just noticed that? You actually thought that it was just our posts? You obviously are not very observant because it has been doing that for many months.
"Has anybody noticed that erasemouse and schoolbird both use quote marks in place of apostrophes?..."
Well lookie me - my posts ALSO use a quote mark instead of an apostrophe. What''s up with that, CBS???
it''s her''s Mike''s the country''s
ok they look like apostrophes on my draft - do they show up as quote marks on the post?
Even stranger
sorry to digress
pardon moi, dear Madam rascalmoose, shouldn''t have ***-u-med you are a sir.
Strangely enough, the term "common sense" has been a pet peeve of mine since one of my college professors proved that it is a non-phrase. Define common. Define sense. Read Thomas Paine''s book to find the origin of the phrase, which he coined and defines as a cause espoused by a group of people.
Having written that, I have found that people whose facts and sources are misrepresented many times employ the phrase "common sense" when unable to reply logically.
So since this is about GUN CONTROL -- "common sense" would not explain one''s strident anger toward America and its flaws. Why do you even care? You have a lovely Queen and many fine countrymen. Do you belong to an anti-America faction? Are you fearful that our prez will bring the wrath of the middle east into your homeland? News report: they hate you as much as they hate us.
Just trying to understand your, shall we say, vitriol towards us down-home folks.
I find it useless to try and give a gun lover any data at all. It is a waste of time because they don''t read it. I now try to use the COMMON SENSE approach which is just as useless because there ain''t any gun lover that has any common sense!:)
e you look like one of those canadian slacker you weighs heavy on bloggers..try this site..
http://www.immigrationwatchdog
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Typical American that believes everything they read on non-reputable sites.
"*here is a tip...learn spanish..they love to take over like a virus..before you know it you would be knee deep in gangs, grafitti, garbage and overwhelemed welfare system.."
Ahh yes, another American racist.
Like I said we really don''t have the same problem as you Americans for letting in immigrants. If they come in illegally and are caught the are returned. Your problem is when they get in you are too lazy to find them and return them.
Hmmm, everybody is innocent until proven guilty, are they not? And do you not have a trial to prove that? The fact that all the bones were found scattered throughout his property and a number of other reasons should be more than enough to accuse him of murder. Seems to me they didn''t have any DNA on the Peterson case in the U.S. did they? Are you saying that they can''t arrest a person without DNA? They did it for YEARS.
"funny you said that..after 8 years under an "idiot"..canada is still this country''''s bi tch..you guys are like an arse tick that lives off a leviathan.."
Are you kidding me? We aren''t living of you so much as you are living off us. Where do you get most of your lumber from? Who do you think is supplying you with water?
AND how many trillions of dollars are you in debt with China and Japan for???
"Please do not judge my country by what yours does or doesn''''''''t do." posted by erasmus6
What I meant by this statement is I don''t like it when someone thinks because they are a certain way that others are that way too.
For instance, I had a neighbor that constantly told what she called, "white lies". She figured because she did it that everybody did it. She was wrong. Lying is lying and I don''t.
Do not assume that because your country has certain problems that my country also has those problems.
I have read many times on this site and other sources as well that Americans know little about their own country and some can''t even find it on a map. If this is true then how the hell could you possibly know anything about mine!!
No it isn''t. Some of you Americans just talk to hear yourselves. When you state something it isn''t because you actually have researched it and know it to be fact. You just say whatever, even if it isn''t true.
When I say something I know it to be fact. I do research it plus I get it from this site and all the posts. I also have relatives in the states.
"those *** king canadians are so fu cking lazy that they would welcome anybody who would want to work.." posted by libsrweak
Now this statement is an absolute lie.
The U.S. is the one that has a problem with immigrants coming and taking their jobs and it IS because you have too many lazy people and employers need to hire immigrants to do the jobs.
Well, to me it is paradise. Especially when I see what your country is like.:)
If you are looking at Toronto then I can see it may not look it. But the rest of Canada is great!
"do cadadiian cross the border by the 1000''''s to by products here cloths cars and cigarettes even sell some back home????"
Canadians stopped going across the border so much for awhile but now that our dollar is worth more they have started again. About buying stuff there and then selling it here, I don''t know. Years ago I heard that some people would buy cigarettes and then sell some.
About the pig farmer, as far as I know there has been no confession.
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