Update On California Shooting

By Tom Knighton

Now that things have settled down a bit, we have some more information regarding the shooting in Northern California yesterday morning. First, four are dead, not five as reported by the Los Angeles Times and repeated here. That’s still four more people that should have been killed, mind you, so this is still a tragedy.

One student at Rancho Tehama Elementary School was shot. Other students were injured due to broken glass.

The killer has been identified, but Bearing Arms has a policy of not naming mass shooters so as to not feed into the pathology that creates these fame-seeking miscreants.

Individuals on the scene believe that it could have been much worse.

“This individual shooter was bent on engaging and killing people at random. I have to say this incident, as tragic and as bad as it is, could have been so much worse,” [Assistant Sheriff Phil] Johnston said, applauding the quick thinking of the school staff.

The gunfire that triggered the alert at the school came when the shooter fired from his vehicle into others while on his way to the school, about 2 miles from his home.

The gunman’s precise motives were unclear, but a dispute with …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms