Guns Saves Lives:
This story focuses on the Pearl High School Shooting of 1997, possibly one of the earliest mass murders committed by a student at a school in the US.
Sixteen year old Luke Woodham was distraught due to the fact that his girlfriend of the time had broken up with him, so he started by beating and stabbing his mother to death at their home. Woodham then took a lever action .30-30 hunting rifle with him to his school, Pearl High. He made no attempt to hide or conceal the rifle. He entered the school and began shooting students. Two people were killed and seven others wounded. The first person killed was Woodham’s ex-girlfriend. After she was shot Woodham began shooting indiscriminately at anyone in the area.
Woodham knew that the police would soon be on their way, but he had no plans to allow himself to be captured or kill himself (as is popular with many mass murderers). Woodham had planned to drive to nearby Pearl Junior High School and continue his shooting spree while police were occupied with the confusion at Pearl High.
Woodham successfully made his way to his car well before police arrived. However, Woodham would never make it to Pearl Junior High.
Assistant Princiapl Joel Myrick heard the shooting when it began and immediately went into action. After getting several students to safety and figuring out what was going on Myrick knew what he had to do. Myrick had a Colt .45 handgun in his truck. Due to gun laws Myrick was not allowed to carry his gun on his person. Myrick ran to his vehicle, retrieved the gun, loaded it, and headed back to the school.
I used to know a widow who kept a tape recording of a shotgun being loaded as her warning to people lurking around her doors and windows.
The web is a wonderful place.
Here is a similar tape:
http://soundbible.com/1403-Loading-Shotgun.html
Funny how you forget those many cases where having a gun stopped a crime.
Good story, but the gunman appears to have done his deed, and stopped, and appeared to be leaving, when he was apprehended by the principal. A heroic story, but a little too late to succeed in stopping the carnage. But what if he’d had his gun with him? That would have been interesting—showdown at the OK Corral.
But from my experience, most people would not carry a gun, let alone kill somebody with it. Keeping in mind that killing someone on a one-to-one basis is a very difficult proposition—even for combat veterans, most of whom have never even seen their target.
Typical libtard reply! The principal may have not been able to stop the little bastard from killing the two kids, but he sure as hell prevented him form going to the other school and killing more, you dumb SOB!