Murder/Suicide At UCLA Shows Pointless Futility of “Gun Free Zones”

By Bob Owens

A UCLA professor was gunned down in a small office by a former PhD student who then took his own life yesterday, triggering cries of an “active shooter” on campus and a mad panic to effect a lockdown in a school where classroom doors can’t be locked.

Investigators in Los Angeles are still searching for a motive in Wednesday’s murder-suicide at the UCLA campus.

Sources identify the gunman as Mainak Sarkar. He used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill 39-year-old engineering professor William Scott Klug in an office, before taking his own life.

UCLA officials are also reviewing safety protocols as the shooting revealed a problem with the doors on campus, reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans.

Students in the midst of finals week filed out of classrooms and buildings with their hands raised.

“Then there was a police officer and he was like yelling at us to get out, get out, with a machine gun,” said a witness.

One student posted images of police inside the building, going door to door with guns drawn.

Students and staff were instructed to find a secure place as hundreds of LAPD officers, the FBI and the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms