Page last updated at 20:45 EST, Thursday, 10 January 2013 US teacher stops school shooting A teacher at a high school in California has been praised by police for averting a serious shooting incident. The teacher and a campus supervisor talked a gunman into putting down his weapon after he had shot and injured one pupil at Taft Union High School. Police said the gunman had enough ammunition to kill many people. The injured student was taken to hospital in an air ambulance and is in a critical condition. The drama started after 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) when the gunman, also a student, arrived late, armed with a shotgun, at the school in the small town in California's central valley. Students and staff telephoned police, but before officers could arrive, the suspect had shot at two people in a class in the science block. One shot missed its target. The teacher, who had been grazed by a pellet, then intervened. He and another school official who entered the class...

Families grieve as Chicago killings increase Community organiser Darius McGraw was one of more than 500 people killed in the US' deadliest city in 2012. Matthew Cassel Last Modified: 10 Jan 2013 04:57 inShare1EmailPrintShareFeedback Matthew Cassel reports from Chicago, where killings went up 15 percent in 2012 Chicago, US - A stack of glossy images showing an active and smiling young man is all that's left for Darius McGraw's family to remember him by. On a cold morning in November 2012, 22-year-old McGraw was gunned down while walking to the home of his fiancée on Chicago's Southwest Side to pick up the couple's two-year-old daughter, Harmony. "You could tell he was a loving father," said 58-year-old Arthur McGraw, remembering his son. "[Harmony] was his life." The McGraw family said they weren't sure who killed Darius, but they were not alone in being forced to mourn a loved one slain in the US' third largest city last yea...

KOMO NEWS 2 Hours Ago Shooting victim: Tougher gun control not the answer SEATTLE -- A woman who survived the Jewish Federation shooting in Seattle says tougher gun control will not put a stop to gun violence. A gunman shot Layla Bush twice and put a bullet in her spine in 2006. Bush still suffers from her injury, and walks with a cane. While she welcomes the national debate on gun control, she is a firm believer in the right to bear arms. "I think if anything, we need more education about guns as opposed to more bureaucracy and controls," she said. "I think it's great that it's actually making people reconsider and re-look at gun control laws." Bush also does not believe in banning assault weapons or limiting high-capacity magazine clips. "I got shot by a man who bought his guns legally, who did not have high-capacity magazines. And six people still got shot, and one killed," she said. Gun control advocates say the deadly school sho...

OFFGRIDSURVIVAL.COM 1 Hour Ago Wyoming’s Firearms Protection Act: Wyoming Proposes Jail time for Feds who Enforce Gun Laws Tweet Wyoming legislators are telling the Federal Government that their Unconstitutional Actions will not be tolerated in the State of Wyoming. In response to the coming Federal Gun Control Proposals, Wyoming Legislators are proposing the Wyoming Firearms Protection Act (HB0104) The Legislation, sponsored by Rep. Kendell Kroeker, attempts to nullify all federal laws made after Jan. 1, 2013 and states that they will be unenforceable within the borders of Wyoming. If the bill passes, it will allow Wyoming Law Enforcement to criminally charge any federal agent who attempts to take away a Wyoming resident’s 2nd amendment rights. The Proposed Legislation states: No public servant as defined in W.S. 6-5-101, or dealer selling any firearm in this state shall enforce or attempt to enforce any act, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government r...

NEWS BUSTERS 2 Hours Ago Fareed Zakaria Begs 'Courage' From Lawmakers to Enact Gun Control by Matt Hadro Piers Morgan isn't the only CNN host pushing a ban on semi-automatic guns. Fareed Zakaria hammered "anomalous" U.S. gun laws on Thursday afternoon and pointed to other countries for the strict gun control that America should strive for. "And I think that Sandy Hook has been a huge turning point and there is a shift of consciousness. We are becoming more aware of just how anomalous the U.S. is," said the host of CNN's foreign affairs show Fareed Zakaria GPS. "So the real challenge here is going to be to take this shift in national consciousness and actually drive it through to make it a shift in policy." What's the "policy" Zakaria wants? "It's not very complex," he maintained. "Australia put in place a ban on all automatic and semi-automatic weapons. Gun homicide in Australia has gone down 60 perc...

MEDIAITE 4 Hours Ago Limbaugh Asks CNN: How Would You React If Bush/Cheney Tried To Use Executive Order On Abortion? by Andrew Kirell On his radio show this afternoon, Rush Limbaugh challenged CNN to ponder how they’d react if President George W. Bush had invoked an executive order on abortion, in contrast to what he sees as a supportive attitude towards President Obama‘s invoking executive order on gun control. “If George Bush, and Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales got together and decided too many people were dying because of abortion in this country, and said that they were looking at ways to curb abortion, and one of the things they were doing was using executive orders on abortion,” Limbaugh said to CNN in particular, “what do you think your reaction would be? I’m telling you: outraged panic would set in.” Limbaugh continued on to say that if Cheney had gotten up, the way VP Joe Biden has, and advocated for the use of executive orders as a means to mitigating a problem, CN...

BREITBART.COM 3 Hours Ago Media Ignore Story of School Gunman Stopped By Armed Employee by John Nolte by John Nolte 10 Jan 2013, 12:25 PM PDT post a comment Via Ace: “He pulled out his gun and started pointing it at people,” Thacker said. Cowan trained a .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol at Riden’s face, said Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson. Carolyn Gudger, the school resource officer, drew her gun, then shielded the principal’s body with her own. Thacker remembers Cowan shouting something – possibly including the words “10 years” – but she isn’t sure. She turned and ran out the set of public doors to the mulch pile in the front of the school, and hid behind bushes. “He might shoot someone,” Thacker remembered thinking. “I just wanted to get out of there.” Riden fled and Gudger inched back into the school, leading Cowan through the scattered pastel chairs in the empty cafeteria. It was a tactical move, meant to lure the gunman into a more contained place, Anders...

FOXNEWSINSIDER.COM 8 Hours Ago Would Obama Be Violating the Constitution by Using Executive Action to Address Gun Violence? 11:09 am ET January 10, 2013 In meetings yesterday on gun violence in America, Vice President Biden said that the president might bypass Congress to make sure that new gun control laws get enacted. Can the president do that or would it violate the Constitution? Judge Andrew Napolitano believes that because the president doesn’t have the authority to put a gun control law into place without the approval of Congress, Biden’s suggestion would involve some sort of excessive tax on bullets which would preclude many from buying them. “In my view he doesn’t have the authority to impose the tax though the EPA has done this in the past without Congressional authorization,” Napolitano said. In his column on FoxNews.com, the judge further tackled the issue, writing, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an extension of the natural right to self-defense...

DAILYCALLER.COM 3 Hours Ago Obama signs bill giving himself lifetime Secret Service protection by Alex Pappas President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Thursday guaranteeing himself Secret Service protection for the rest of his life. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama signed the “Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012” on Thursday. The law affects Obama, former President George W. Bush and future presidents, who under current law would only be protected for 10 years after leaving office. According to the press secretary’s office, the law “restores lifetime Secret Service protection of former Presidents who did not serve as President prior to January 1, 1997, and their spouses; and provides for protection of all children of former Presidents until they become 16 years of age.” Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy introduced the bill in the House. Follow Alex on Twitter

PAT DOLLARD YOUNG AMERICANS 3 Hours Ago Wyoming Lawmakers Propose ‘Gun Protection’ Legislation To Thwart Obama by Chuck Biscuits Jan 10, 2013 Chuck Biscuits Excerpted from K2 Radio: Several Wyoming lawmakers are proposing legislation designed to protect gun-owners from any potential federal firearm ban. The “Firearms Protection Act” bill, introduced this week, would make any federal law banning semi-automatic firearms or limiting the size of gun magazines unenforceable within the state’s boundaries. Anyone trying to enforce a federal gun ban could face felony charges under the proposal. It also includes a provision allowing the Wyoming Attorney General’s office to defend any state resident against any federal firearm ban.

PATRIOT POST 6 Hours Ago Assault on the Second Amendment "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." --Second Amendment to the United States Constitution Patriots, I call on you to pledge: "We, the People, affirm that we will support and defend Liberty as "endowed by our Creator," enshrined in our Constitution and empowered by its Second Amendment, against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Though tens of millions of American Patriots have already said it, the time has come for one of us to go to the mountaintop and shout it so the whole world can hear it. I hereby make this public declaration: I will "support and defend" Liberty as "endowed by our Creator," enshrined in our Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I will NOT comply with any executive order, legislative action or judicial diktat, which violates...

GUNSSAVELIVES.NET 6 Hours Ago Father of Aurora Theater Shooting Survivor Speaks Out AGAINST Gun Control One might think that the father of a survivor of the Aurora Theater shooting would be in favor of more gun control. However, Guy Bennett, does not agree. His son survived the shooting as well as his son’s girlfriend, although she did suffer a gunshot wound. Bennett, who recently relocated to GA, spoke at a GOP breakfast. Bennett, carrying a .45 caliber handgun on his hip, speaking to a panel discussion of eight current, outgoing and future Republican state representatives and senators at the Cobb GOP’s Legislative Breakfast, said his son had a concealed handgun license in Colorado, but wasn’t allowed to take his gun into the movie theater. “We need to abolish the defenseless victim zones,” said Bennett, who recently moved to the area from Colorado. “I’m tired of explaining to him why his girlfriend was shot and he could not defend himself — a God-given right.” We tend t...

January 10, 2013 Student Shot at California High School By IAN LOVETT LOS ANGELES — One student was shot at a California high school Thursday morning and another student was taken into custody, according to law enforcement officials. Around 9, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office received calls about a gunman on campus at Taft Union High School, in a rural area of the state about 120 miles north of Los Angeles. One student, a male, was shot in the chest area and airlifted to the hospital in Bakersfield, according to Ray Pruitt, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office. Another male student was taken into custody, and a shotgun was found at the scene, Mr. Puritt said. No more information about the victim’s condition was immediately available. Initially, the sheriff’s office said two students had been shot. But Mr. Pruitt said officials now believed the second student was not hit by gunfire but had a “stress-related reaction to the shooting.”

THERIGHTSCOOP.COM 4 Hours Ago Biden hints at outlawing unregulated ‘private’ gun sales Posted by The Right Scoop on January 10th, 2013 in Politics | Leave a Comment Biden said today that there have been a ‘surprising recurrence’ of recommendations that all gun sales be regulated with universal background checks, including private sales: “There’s an emerging set of recommendations, not coming from me but coming from the groups we’ve met with. And I’m going to focus on the ones that relate primarily to gun ownership and the type of weapons can be owned. And one is, there is a surprising — so far — a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks. Not just close the gun show loophole but total, universal background checks, including private sales.” (via Weekly Standard)

DAILYCALLER.COM 1 Hour Ago The guy who wants to grab your guns will be protected for life by men with guns, on your dime, for life by Jim Treacher First, let’s look back at the demented ravings of a gun-worshipping lunatic: Get a load of this idiot. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”? Yeah, whatever. Nice try, wingnut. Everybody knows that more guns can only mean more crime. Duh! Oh, you need proof? Alright, teabagger, read the following. It’s okay, you can sound out the words if you need to. Alex Pappas reports: President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Thursday guaranteeing himself Secret Service protection for the rest of his life. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama signed the “Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012” on Thursday. The law affects Obama, former President George W. Bush and future presidents, who under current law would only be protected for 10 years after leaving office. And do you think t...

EXAMINER.COM 1 Hour Ago Statistics contradict claims of gun control advocates by Anthony Martin In the mass hysteria whipped up by liberal politicians and the mainstream media over guns, some wildly erroneous claims have been made concerning gun violence that calls into question the trustworthiness of the sources. A new report issued today by Science 2.0 highlights these errors and attempts to set the record straight. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., stated in an announcement Wednesday that gun violence is the single most crucial issue of our time. Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who now leads a gun control advocacy group, stated that gun violence has consumed the nation and that it is time to say enough. Others in the media who have written numerous op-eds for various publications have claimed that America is overwhelmed by gun violence and that it must be stopped at all costs. The statistics, however, show the exact opposite of what is being claimed by each of these ...

BREITBART.COM 1 Hour Ago Cincy TV News Calls Out Piers Morgan's False Anti-Gun Stats by Todd Huston by Warner Todd Huston 10 Jan 2013, 2:25 PM PDT post a comment With his January 8 "Reality Check" segment, WXIX's Ben Swann completely undermined Morgan's gauzy claim that Britain's gun banning makes his countrymen safer compared to the wild west that is the U.S.A. During the interview with Alex Jones, Morgan kept blathering about how Great Britain only had 35 murders with guns in 2011. That is compared to 11,000 murders with guns in the U.S. Morgan piously maintained that this made Great Britain's laws better. But Swann used real statistics to show that Morgan's claims are misleading in general and just plain wrong in specifics. Swann not only showed that the U.S. has a lower violent crime rate than 28 other countries, but that it is also safer to live here, despite that we are number one in the world for gun ownership, than it is to live in ...