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1 of 4. Children look for their parents from a school bus near Price Middle School following a shooting at the school in Atlanta, Georgia, January 31, 2013. One student was shot and another arrested in the latest string of school shootings.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A 14-year-old student was wounded on Thursday in a shooting outside a middle school in Atlanta and police said another student was arrested in the latest outbreak of gun violence in a U.S. school.
The afternoon shooting occurred outside Price Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia. Neither the wounded student nor the suspected shooter were identified by authorities.
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis and Police Chief George Turner said at a news conference that multiple gunshots were fired from a small-caliber handgun outside the main school building.
One of the gunshots grazed the 14-year-old on the back of the neck but his injury was not life-threatening. He was expected to be released from hospital by Thursday evening, Davis said.
The shooter was disarmed and taken into custody minutes after the incident by an off-duty Atlanta police officer, Turner said. He said the off-duty police officer, who was armed, works at Price Middle School as a so-called resource officer, providing security.
Davis said a teacher's aide was slightly injured in the confusion that followed the shooting, but he offered no further details.
Police said they did not know how the shooter got his gun or what his motive was, but Turner said charges would be filed against him.
A national debate has raged over gun control in the United States since the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school in December.
(Reporting by David Beasley; Additional reporting by Kevin Gray; Editing by David Adams, Tom Brown and Cynthia Johnston)
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30,000 people die from guns
and
+650,000 are saved from guns
And Rueters only post stories that only focus on the bad part, i question there Journalist intergrity
Please provide us with one, at least one, credible source for your claim that +650,000 people are saved from guns?
Let’s pretend your made up numbers are correct:
How does that help the 30,000 people killed from guns? When will it be a problem for you? When as many or more people are killed by guns than are saved by them?
What kind of logic is that???
An idea. Outlawing guns looks like it is too hard, so just tax them. Smokers get taxed in order to pay for treating the diseases it causes, why dont we do the same for guns. Say $2,000 per gun per year, moving to say $10,000 for a semi-automatic. The tax may even be used to pay for security guards in every school. The gun lobby cant argue about that. It was their idea, unless they are putting commercial considerations before public safety. Sorry… just being cycnical.
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