Student Shot At Memphis High School

Police: Boy In Critical Condition After Class Dispute Turned Violent; Suspect In Custody

(AP)  A feud between two high school students that began off campus culminated at a gym class Monday when one student shot the other twice, then handed the gun to a coach, saying, "It's over now," authorities said.

The victim, a 19-year-old senior, was in critical condition at a hospital, authorities said. The suspected shooter, 17-year-old sophomore Corneilous Cheers, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment and carrying a gun on school property, said police spokeswoman Monique Martin.

The teenagers got into a confrontation off campus over the weekend or last week, police said. Investigators were trying to determine whether it was related to gang activity, Martin said.

A detention hearing was scheduled for Tuesday in juvenile court for Cheers, who did not yet have a lawyer. Calls to listings for people named Cheers either went unanswered or were answered by people who said they did not know him.

The shooting erupted in a morning gym class being held in the cafeteria at the 1,050-student Mitchell High School. About 75 students were in the class, but no one besides the senior was hurt. The gunman gave no warning, Principal John Ware said.

"He walked up to him, shot him, and made a statement to the coach that 'it's over now,"' Ware said. "He did not run."

The school was locked down, and parents were notified by an automated phone alert system, spokeswoman Rita Cooper said. Many parents picked up their children though classes resumed within a few hours.

Christopher Bright, 17, was in a classroom in a different part of the school when workers in the front office made frantic calls over the school's public-address system for the principal and security officers.

"They were screaming — yelling really fast," he said. Students were told to stay in their classrooms but did not immediately know what was going on.

Memphis high schools have access to metal detectors, but they are not used each day.

"We had a metal detector (screening) last week," Ware said. "We did not find any indication that we had any problems with weapons on campus."

Memphis schools periodically use metal detectors to check students for weapons, and each high school and middle school must conduct at least nine screenings a year. The school board is debating a proposal to require daily or weekly checks, which officials say would cost at least $4.5 million a year.

It was the second shooting in a week at a Memphis high school. On Feb. 4, a 16-year-old student was shot in the leg in a classroom at Hamilton High School during an argument with another student over music. The student suffered non-critical injuries and the suspected shooter was charged.

[gunownerdan]

I think anyone can agree that it should be common sense that you don''t leave guns and ammo lying around for anyone to pick up.
The dumb people that do this are proving Darwin''s theory to be correct.
Blaming guns will never address the reasons why people are choosing to harm themselves and others.

[gunownerdan]

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
- SIGMUND FREUD, Austrian psychoanalyst (1856 - 1939)

[gunownerdan]

the solution is REDUCING the prevalance of guns. Posted by schoollord

This means banning guns and you know it.

[gunownerdan]

Schoollord why don''t you just admit that you want a total ban on civilian gun ownership?
You''ve said it before, now you deny it.

[gunownerdan]

Thanks for proving my point.

[gunownerdan]

"...unwilling to compromise..."
Posted by schoollord

Schoollord is not looking to compromise one bit.
It''s either schoollord''s way or no way.
Schoollord is always right and everyone else is always wrong.

[gunownerdan]

Gun owners like gunownerdan, who are unwilling to compromise to save lives, are the worse enemies of the Second. said schoollord.

My guns are not "unlocked or poorly locked".
You advocate disarming all citizens with tanks.
Why on earth would I or an other gun owner want to "compromise" with such foolishness?

[gunownerdan]

"MOST gun deaths are related to legally owned guns by the so called law abiding gun owners!~
...guns at home increase the chances of suicide, homicide, and accidental death or injury in all homes with guns!~"
Posted by schoollord

You are NOT a "law-abiding gun owner" if you use guns illegally! Period.
Only a tiny fraction of gun owners ever kill themselves or others.
A vast majority of gun owners never use their guns to kill anyone in their whole lives.
Schoollord seems to think all gun owners are criminals.
How totally ignorant and bigoted.


Life is full of dangers.

[gunownerdan]

"guns at home INCREASE the chances of suicide, homicide, and accidental death or injury."
Posted by schoollord

Let''s be clear please.
Responsible gun ownership can and does save lives.
Irresponsible gun ownership(especially by those who are suicidal) can and will increase the chances of suicide, homicide, and accidental death or injury.

[gunownerdan]

Schoollord is so obviously consumed by his(?)irrational hatred of an inanimate object that that''s all he can talk and think about.

[gunownerdan]

schoollord,
Do you have any life outside of statistics, studies, and picking on people who don''t think the way you do on message boards?

[gunownerdan]

Of course everything I say is false because being self righteous like schoollord means she will not accept any opinions that differ from her own.

[gunownerdan]

But they weren''t protecting themselves. They were protecting property!~
Posted by schoollord

Stop lying to yourself and everyone else.
You know good and well that the rioters were out for blood. You also know good and well that the Korean business owners used guns to protect their lives AND their property.

[gunownerdan]

Did you know that rioters and looters outnumbered police better than 20 to 1?
Posted by schoollord

If that''s the case, the only way to be protected was to protect yourself.
Self defense is the most basic of human rights.

[gunownerdan]

I made a mistake.
I meant to say that many of the Korean businesses that were protected by the armed were saved from being destroyed.
Korean businesses were targeted and many were in fact destroyed becuase the police simply would not help.

[gunownerdan]

assault weapons are not that good at saving people!~
Posted by schoollord

I clearly remember those Korean business owners in L.A. who in 1992 used "assault weapons" to protect their lives and businesses from mobs of hundreds of dangerous looters and arsonists during the Rodney King riots.
Why don''t you ask them how effective guns can be for self defense?
While many black and white owned businesses were looted and destroyed, I don''t think even one Korean business was destroyed even though they were also targeted by the angry mobs.

[gunownerdan]

Most of the Americans killed are killed with the guns people like YOU have!~
Posted by schoollord

Relying on stereotypes, generalizations, and childish insults doesn''t help your side.

[gunownerdan]

If "assault weapons" are only good for killing, shouldn''t the President be worried about the Secret Service?
If the Government doesn''t trust us with our guns, why should we trust them with theirs?

[gunownerdan]

Free people can own guns, slaves can not.
To enslave a nation, disarm the citizens.

"Tyrants mistrust the people, hence they deprive them of arms."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them."
- George Mason

"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
- Justice Alex Kozinski, US 9th Circuit Court, 2003

"Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."
- Congressman Ron Paul, June 27, 2006

[gunownerdan]

PATHETIC!
posted by schoollord

You know everything there is to know about being pathetic, that''s for sure.