The Face of the 2nd Amendment

[Ben Kenobi]

They also draped a swastika. You can't get further apart in the meaning of those symbols.

Treading on the bodies of the dead is disrespectful.

[Uncle Sparky]

TROUTDALE, Ore. - A teenage gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a student Tuesday and injured a teacher shortly after classes started at a U.S. school and was later found dead as police arrived, authorities in Oregon said.

Authorities have tentatively identified the gunman but weren't ready to release the name, Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson said. Anderson said the teacher suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at the scene.

Police said the gunman was found dead in a school bathroom, slumped on a toilet, and likely killed himself.

The attack panicked students, and a lockdown was ordered.

Morgan Rose, 15, said she hid in a locker room with another student and two teachers.

"It was scary in the moment. Now knowing everything's OK I'm better," she said.

Daniel DeLong, 15, said he saw a physical education teacher at the school with a bloodied shirt.

"It just, like, happened so fast, you know?" he said.

The first reports of shots fired came at 8 a.m. on the next-to-last-day of classes. Police initially seemed uncertain about whether there was a live shooter in the school.

Students were eventually led from the school with hands on their heads. Parents and students were reunited in a supermarket parking lot.

The shooting follows a series of attacks at or near school campuses across the country.

On June 5, a 19-year-old man was killed and two other people wounded when a gunman opened fire in a building at Seattle Pacific University. Police said the 26-year-old suspect had no connection to the university but apparently was planning to kill as many people as he could before killing himself.

Gun control is a fiercely divisive issue in the United States, where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution, alongside such basic rights as free speech and freedom of religion.

President Barack Obama's plan for broader background checks on gun purchases, along with proposals for a ban on military-style assault rifles and limits on ammunition capacity, failed last year in Congress.

That was despite the December 2012 killings of 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, that shocked the nation.

[DaShi]

It's hardly news anymore in America.

[MrFun]

I guess things in our country have gotten so bad that now a company is going to market bullet-proof blankets in the event of a school shooting.

[MRT144]

Only thing that kills a bad guy with a gun is himself.

[Dr Strangelove]

Only thing that kills a bad guy with a gun is himself.

...or in the recent case in Las Vegas, his wife with a gun. In the end the wife fired several rounds into her hubby then topped herself with a single shot. I'm wondering what she would have said if she had discovered if she had wasted her last bullet on making sure her better half was taken care of:

"Oops!"

"Silly me!"

"THANKS OBAMA!!!!!!!"