Two people critical in hospital as officials in Bend say 16-year-old suspect shot dead by bystander
A 16-year-old shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher before he was shot dead by a community member, authorities said at an evening news conference.
The dead children at Silver Rail elementary school were aged five, eight and 11, officials said.
A seven-year-old and a 54-year-old were also hospitalized with critical injuries, according to police.
Oregon’s “strict” gun laws are basically a rumor. Measure 114 passed in 2022 and has never taken effect, lawsuits and lawmakers keep kicking it down the road.
So what we actually have is background checks. Now put 2+2 together and realize a 16 year old was never buying a gun legally in the first place. Whatever he used started as somebody’s legal purchase… let that sink in.
Meanwhile, the story everyone wants to sell you, once again, is the armed bystander. Which is exactly the kind of story that sells more guns, especially out here in Oregon. More guns sitting in trucks and closets where a teenager can get to them, a teenager who never got a background check, or a thief who can steal them and sell them to someone nobody background checked either.
Four people are dead. Three children. One teacher.
I’ll keep waiting for the part where the system and our “stricter” gun laws worked.
They clearly need more security in schools.
I imagine the kid could have probably passed a background check.
Well like you said. There are more guns. So why haven’t Dems put forward more laws to encourage gun lockers, safes, safe public storage locations and more laws to criminalize reckless storage, actually enforce those? More encouragement and incentives for training, education that doesn’t cost $300+
Keep in mind the states on the West Coast have been heavily controlled by Dems for years now, so why not move forward instead of stuck in the ideals of banning firearms? Why move forward with the stereotype of taking away firearms?
Seems to only embolden and encourage more firearm purchases if you ask anyone with a brain.
perhaps instead you should ask why republicans block every attempt at federal gun regulation? Especially after SandyHook… you’d have to be a heartless monster not to support gun control after that. Which, Yeah, I’m pretty comfortable calling all elected republicans heartless monsters.
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Compare the practicality and effectiveness in legislating and enforcing what people do with weapons inside their homes, vehicles, sheds over limiting access to the kinds of weapons people (“We the people” is inclusive of the most careless among our population) can obtain.