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Title: Breaking News: Shot fired At Memorial Middle School : Student Begged, ‘Not To Make Me Do This’ - Armed With An AK-47
Source: www.joplinglobe.com
URL Source: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_282101951.html
Published: Oct 9, 2006
Author: joplinglobe
Post Date: 2006-10-09 10:51:02 by Mind_Virus
Keywords: None
Views: 1654
Comments: 46

Breaking News: Shot fired At Memorial Middle School
October 09, 2006 08:43 am
9:18 a.m. Student Begged, ‘Not To Make Me Do This’
A Memorial Middle School student, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, pointed the gun this morning at two school administrators and begged them, ‘not to make me do this.”
A 15-year-old student walked into the east side of Memorial Middle School about 7:45 a.m. where he was spotted by Memorial Principle Steve Gilbreath and Assistant Superintendent Steve Doerr.
School officials say the student pointed the gun at the two men, asked them “not to make me do this” and then raised the gun and fired a shot into the ceiling of the school, breaking a water pipe.
After firing the shot, he said again, “Please don’t make me do this.”
Doerr and Gilbreth persuaded the student to go outside the building where he was confronted by two police officers who had their weapons drawn. The student dropped the rifle and was taken into custody.
Joplin police Officer Curt Farmer said officers found a note in the student’s packpack indicating that he had placed an explosive device in the school.
Students in the school were moved to Memorial Hall where they are awaiting their parents.
School Superintendent Jim Simpson said the school will be closed for the day while police make a search of the building.
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#2. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
This is really some dumb shit. What do you want to bet this kid has been on Ritalin, or something stronger, for a number of years, just like those kids in Colorado at Columbine?

BTP Holdings posted on 2006-10-09 10:57:48 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#2)
You have no idea what the hell's going on. Nor do I. Do you really put it past the government to be behind this in some way?
Are AK47's that readily available?

angle posted on 2006-10-09 11:02:42 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#8. To: angle (#6)
Are AK47's that readily available?

That is if it was an AK. There are tens of thousands of the semi-auto version in the country.

BTP Holdings posted on 2006-10-09 11:04:21 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#9. To: BTP Holdings (#8)
They sure are. I should know, one of my assault rifles is one of the versions made for paratroopers.

Ferret Mike posted on 2006-10-09 11:06:42 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#9) (Edited)
one of my assault rifles is one of the versions made for paratroopers.

I once had a FAL paratrooper rifle in .308. I traded it for another rifle. Damn, that sure was little with the stock folded up. I wish I still had it. The barrel length was only 20 inches so it was really only good for shorter range. But that cartridge packs a real wallop. ;0)

BTP Holdings posted on 2006-10-09 11:11:24 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#16. To: BTP Holdings (#12) (Edited)
No bicyclist should leave home without one. One of the reasons I moved back to Eugene from Portland was how out of control people have gotten. I had two gutter punks come up to me in a popular park on a Friday night.
One grabbed my handlebars and said, "That's my bike (It was my Bridgestone MB- 1 which is worth a pretty penny). I tried prying his hand off and his friend slapped me.
When I pulled my snub nosed S&W out though, both got polite and said they must be mistaken about the bike being theirs'.
Guns can be a hell of a great truth serum. (Yes I do have a concealed weapon's permit.) ;-)

Ferret Mike posted on 2006-10-09 11:19:15 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#42. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
Guns can be a hell of a great truth serum. (Yes I do have a concealed weapon's permit.) ;-)

That's fine.
They don't sell you real bullets, do they? ;)

HOUNDDAWG posted on 2006-10-10 12:11:21 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#43. To: HOUNDDAWG (#42)
About the time this happened, an informal "family," as they called themselves beat up a large number of people. They would wake up homeless people down there (this is Old Town, the place in Portland and the U.S. the words 'slid row' first came into use) and ask for cannabis or money then beat them up and they called it "charging the homelessness tax."
They beat up people at the Max train stop on SE 1st and were arrested in a felony stop fashion with many police cars while crossing the Burnside Bridge to get to their camp under the I-5 and other highway bridges on the Eastside.
That is just the centerpiece incident for that area that month. People i that area with all the new clubs and thousands upon thousands of homeless people - most of them quite young make where I was working at Saturday Market up there dangerous to be on foot of bicycle, so I went home to Eugene.
I do not like pulling guns out, and I was a hair away from using it as I never unholster unless I do it to shoot. I had said, "wait, take my money," when pulling it out as they were so in my face I wanted to motivate them to allow me to get something from my pocket and not fear a weapon was coming out.
Years earlier I had a guy do a round-house kick to my throat on NW Stark as I was walking to my car. He has waved and said, "Hi!" and went right into the kick. I anchored into a back stance and took the kick and went inside his longer reach and was going to start in on him when three guys with him started in on me.
I was rescued by bouncers from the nearby Bar and pulled inside. It turned out they were guys kicking and fighting people looking harmless as they walked down the street, also on a Friday night.
I saw the guy on Ankeny Street a few months later alone and took off my bicycle messenger helmet cover and red shirt and planted my mountain bike wheel into his crotch at a good speed, probably 15 - 18 MPH.
I admit I can be less then a nice guy if I am pissed off, but I feel leaving a mega sized city was a wise thing to do because sooner or later, you lose.
Eugene is much safer, and having lived here since 1971 minus some years in the Army, I have a network of friends and superior familiarity of this smaller city that I now prefer to Portland.
I have visited my old state of Connecticut and don't want to live back there either. It has gotten much worse since I grew up there and you can have it.
Guns are just a tool and there was nothing glamorous about pulling one out. Dead or screaming blood spurting people make life way too complicated. I am just glad it is so easy to get a concealed permit in Oregon, as some states just do not allow this sort of permit to be issued quite that easily.
I do have a conviction on my record for carrying a conceal S&W model 15 early on when I first got to Oregon and lost it as I was under 21 and had to pay a 50 fine and had one year unsupervised suspended sentence.
I had stuck the gun under the seat as did my friend who had been target shooting at the waste transfer site i the boonies with me to go into the store there in Noti, Oregon.
The cop had asked about the brass in the backseat having snouted around my Pinto suspicious at the two long hairs and had asked where the guns were and I told him. I was promptly arrested and charged with the misdemeanor I speak of.
I plead guilty as I was.
Since then I've kept informed about what's legal with guns and stay in that envelope. I have been stopped for running a red light and as I was on a bike the first thing I always say to a cop walking up to me is what I have on me and where it is and let them grab it.
Cops are testy about someone they stop and don't know who they find out has a gun on them and I don't want any more trouble from them then I have to put up with.
I have other less lethal items I prefer to carry in Eugene if out at night, and it is safe enough here I don't tote very often. Which is why I am back here and not in Portland any longer.

Ferret Mike posted on 2006-10-10 13:44:26 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#45. To: Ferret Mike (#43)

Here's my model 19 snubby .357 with Bianchi Lightning grips. It also has a BULLSEYE spring kit installed

HOUNDDAWG posted on 2006-10-10 14:10:27 ET (1 image) Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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#46. To: HOUNDDAWG (#45)
Nice. My friend I spoke of earlier has one of those real nice 357 magnums, but he hasn't had the same work done on it. He's had the sights modified similar to yours' and has the same barrel length though.
I replaced the Model 15 'combat masterpiece' -- as they are named -- as when I was a crew chief I didn't want to vary from the organizational ammunition type for the issue model 10s of the time for obvious reasons, but if I was going to war, I wanted zeroed sights.
I still have it. It was owned by a police officer originally and has the action improved too, a four inch barrel and grips large enough for my hands which I recently got for it as the ones on it when I got it had problems with them.
I don't ever plan on getting rid of it. S&W products are rugged and machined well. They last, and I've had the best luck with their product and they hold their value.
A little six shot 38 is no where near as glamorous as a model 29, and it doesn't have the stopping or penetration power of other weapons I own, but I like it.
I get good results at the range with it, and actually I got into shooting as a boy because I always had better aim then most people I shot with.
I find when teaching people about small handgun use, fire control and aim are the two things people need the most work on. In fact, anyone I go to the range with who screws up and points a loaded gun unthinkingly at me finds out quickly just how annoying I can be when really upset.
Eugene is very very liberal and I have experienced people getting highly upset with me for merely owning rifles and handguns. I am also amused when anarchist or activist friends speak of insurrection in any form. I always point out that initiating that sort of business when people politically to the right of them are trained and armed in far greater numbers is mud dumb, as they would be more likely be the winners in that sort of brinkmanship, not them.
But of course in those fantasy land ruminations they don't want to listen to that. I guess the truth hurts.

Ferret Mike posted on 2006-10-10 14:59:07 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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