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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Rather your point was. Obviously the colonists didn't comply, they revolted.

    The states were soverign. The laws were inacted by states and not the crown. The laws were enforced by the states not the crown. Do you also believe the differenct states religious laws were enacted and enforced by the crown?

    I asked you to check into, if you are unwilling...that's ok.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1751_Texan View Post
    The states were soverign. The laws were inacted by states and not the crown. The laws were enforced by the states not the crown. Do you also believe the differenct states religious laws were enacted and enforced by the crown?

    I asked you to check into, if you are unwilling...that's ok.

    Uh, colonists were under British rule. Start by getting history right. Then criticize me.
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    School shooting in Mexico...

    Mexico youth shoots teacher, classmates, then kills himself
    Jan 18,`17 -- A 15-year-old student opened fire with a gun at a private school in this northern Mexico city Wednesday, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself. Another student suffered lesser injuries in the shooting, which was captured on a video posted to social media.
    Nuevo Leon state Gov. Jaime Rodriguez said the shooter died at a hospital and the other three victims with head wounds were "fighting between life and death." The boy wounded in the arm was out of danger. A video, apparently from the school's surveillance camera, shows a female teacher handing out materials and students seated at their desks when a boy opens fire with a pistol from a sitting position, hitting a boy sitting in front of him, who immediately slumps to the ground. He next shoots the teacher, who was looking in another direction, and she falls to the ground. The boy rises from his seat and walks around, firing shots at his classmates, before turning the gun on himself.

    His first shot apparently misses his head, and then he runs out of bullets. The shooter runs to his backpack, apparently to reload, as his classmates cower at their desks. He appears to say something to the surviving students, who begin to rush for the door, and then he shoots himself in the head and falls to the ground. The crowded classroom was left with a jumble of overturned chairs, blood and fallen students.


    Balloons and candles stand at the entrance of the American School of the Northeast after a school shooting in Monterrey, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. A 15-year-old student opened fire with a gun on Wednesday, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself.

    State security spokesman Aldo Fasci said four of the injured, including the shooter himself, had bullet wounds to the head and were in extremely serious condition. He said the student shot the 24-year-old teacher, a 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy in the head, and a 15-year-old classmate in the arm. He then pointed the gun at classmates before shooting himself in the head. "The classes were going perfectly well, the student stands up from his desk and pulls out a gun," Fasci said.

    He noted that photographs of the shooting had been posted to social media and said the person responsible would be punished. He also appealed to the news media to avoid using the images, which show minors. Fasci said the shooter had been under treatment for depression, but that the motive was under investigation. The spokesman attributed it to "the situation that is happening everywhere. The children have access to the internet. This has happened in other countries." The website of the American School of the Northeast says it offers bilingual education for students from preschool through ninth grade.

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    SRO saves day at Illinois high school...

    Illinois School Resource Officer Stops Shooter
    May 16, 2018 - School Resource Officer Mark Dallas, who was working at Dixon High School on Wednesday, shot and wounded a former student who fired a gun near the school’s gym on Wednesday.
    The incident began about 8 a.m., according to officials speaking at a late-morning news conference. Students had gathered at the gym for graduation practice. Dixon police Chief Steven Howell said the suspect, a 19-year-old male, “fired several shots” near the gym. The school resource officer, identified as Mark Dallas, confronted the suspect, who then fled from the school with the officer in pursuit, Howell said. During the pursuit, the suspect fired several shots at the officer but did not strike him. The officer returned fire and struck the suspect, who was then taken into custody just west of the school, Howell said. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one else was injured. An earlier news account said the gunfire exchange took place in the gym.

    Howell and other officials praised the officer for saving lives. “From the angle I’m looking at right now, at lot of things went right today when a great many of them could have (gone) wrong,” Dixon Mayor Liandro Arellanno Jr. said. “Things could have gone much worse.” “He saved an enormous amount of lives,” Lee County Sheriff John Simonton. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, in a statement credited “school resource officer Mark Dallas for his bravery and quick action to immediately diffuse a dangerous situation.” Authorities have not provided the gunman’s name.


    School Resource Officer Mark Dallas, who was working at Dixon High School on Wednesday, shot and wounded a former student who fired a gun near the school’s gym and later tried to shoot the officer Wednesday.

    Devin Scott, 18, a senior, said he and 150 others students were in gym at 8. They heard what sounded like firecrackers. Gym teacher Andrew McKay came running into gym and shouted that everyone should get out, Scott said. “We all got up and everyone started running toward the doors,” Scott said. “Some people didn’t take it seriously. They thought it was firecrackers. Some people did. They started crying as they were running.” The students ran out of the building and went to a National Guard armory a short distance from the gymnastium. They didnt know if the shooting was real or not until other students started pouring into the armory. Scott said that the experience didn’t begin to sink in until his adrenaline began to wear off. “I almost started crying,” he said. “It was scary. My life could have ended.” He and his brother, Skylar, 16, a junior, credited Officer Dallas and their teacher, Mr. McKay, for preventing what could have been a horrible tragedy. “I feel like he (Dallas) is a hero. I feel like Mr. McKay is a hero,” Devin Scott said.

    Russ Shuck, 65, owner of Russ’ Automotive Service & Towing, said he began to notice something was amiss when students started pouring out from between the houses that separate him from the high school. “I was sitting here in the office with a couple of other guys drinking Pepsi and shooting the bull,” he said. “We were wondering what was going on. Then we heard the sirens.” Shuck expressed surprise that a school shooting could happen in a town like Dixon. “It’s just kinda of shocking that it happened in Dixon,” he said. “Never thought I’d see it around here.”

    Authorities say students did exactly as they were trained to do in such situations. Officials said they were pleased to discover that students had barricaded themselves into classrooms by blocking doorways with chairs, desks and other furniture. Police have not said why the former student came to the school. Police said they believe the gunman acted alone and that there was no further threat to anyone in the area. Howell declined to discuss why the former student brought a gun to the school. According to the city of Dixon website, the school resource officer position was started by the Dixon Police Department in 2000 to help prevent school violence. Officials said all schools in Dixon, which is about 80 miles west of Chicago, were placed on lockdown in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The other schools re-opened after officials determined the gunman acted alone.

    https://www.officer.com/tactical/swa...tout-on-campus
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    Off-Duty Officer Stops Gunman Targeting School Children in Brazil
    May 16, 2018 - A Brazilian mother's police training suddenly kicked in as a gunman rushed at her and a group of parents waiting for their kids to get out of school.
    A Brazilian mother's police training suddenly kicked in as a gunman rushed at her and a group of parents waiting for their kids to get out of school. Katia da Silva Sastre, 42, was outside a school in Sao Paulo when the man charged at them. Sastre can be seen drawing her weapon and firing multiple shots.

    https://www.officer.com/on-the-stree...dren-in-brazil
    Last edited by waltky; 05-16-2018 at 06:46 PM.

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