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Deadly Shooting Puts School on Lockdown (Pittsburgh)
KDKA ^ | 3/16/05 | KDKA

Posted on 03/16/2005 12:51:41 PM PST by HereComesTheGOP

Pittsburgh (KDKA) A deadly shooting outside Carrick High School this afternoon has put the school on lockdown.

Officials have confirmed that one student is dead and two others were wounded in the shooting around 2pm.

According to authorities, police stopped a car outside the school and were running a check on its license plate when another vehicle pulled up and started shooting at the car.

One juvenile in the car was shot in the head and killed; a second juvenile was critically injured by gunshots. A third juvenile in the car was injured by flying glass. Authorities believe all three were Carrick High School students.

Police say the shooting may have involved an AK-47.

As a precaution, students have been kept inside the building past their normal 2:17pm dismissal while police officers swarmed the area; but they're expected to be released within the hour.

More than 1300 students in ninth through twelfth grades are enrolled at Carrick High School, which is located on Parkfield Street.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; pittsburgh; schoolviolence; shooting
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To: HereComesTheGOP

241 posted on 03/16/2005 6:46:25 PM PST by Eastbound
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To: Gilbo_3
Oh really, although you call someone else an idiot

Because their response to a post where I talked about possible limits on military-grade weapons and had previously indicated my support for most gun rights, was to immediately accuse me of being a total gun-grabbing nut like Sarah Brady and Al Gore. Completely ridiculous. Like when someone calls a long-time conservative a commie socialist RINO just because they disagree on a single pet issue. Get a grip.

242 posted on 03/16/2005 6:47:55 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Bear_Slayer

In one of my previous responses I stated that obviously a 6-shooter (yes, I did use that exact term) was not adequate for self-defense in all situations.


243 posted on 03/16/2005 6:49:42 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Spktyr
Good selection, Spktyr.

Here's another double-take:

My kind of ugly gun. Yes, it's an AK-47, but a 22-cal trainer.

244 posted on 03/16/2005 7:14:33 PM PST by Eastbound
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To: Heartofsong83

look at the date this one 'came aboard'--another stupid liberal trying to sneak his/her 2 cents into Free Republic--down with trolls/back to DU


245 posted on 03/16/2005 7:21:01 PM PST by cmotormac44
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To: Eastbound

Yup. It's a plinker, not real suitable for any other use.

Now let's see if he can figure out which one's which.


246 posted on 03/16/2005 7:22:50 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ctdonath2
Good evening.

If a musket is all the statists have left me it will have to do until I can get something more appropriate.

In the novel "Unintended Consequences" John Ross describes how Jews in Warsaw used an old revolver to kill Nazi soldiers. They would take the dead soldier's weapon and pass the revolver on to someone else to repeat the process.

That might not have been necessary had the citizens owned and been competent in the use of modern military arms. That is what the Second Amendment is all about.

Michael Frazier
247 posted on 03/16/2005 7:23:14 PM PST by brazzaville (No surrender,no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: RayBob

RayBob, I grew up in Oakland. South Oakland to be exact...my neighborhood consisted of 16 foot wide, shotgun houses (no pun with this being a 'shooting thread'--a shotgun is a narrow row house where the back door aligns with the front so you could fire straight thru.) Today, in Shadyside, they would be considered 'townhouses' but I digress...there were two kinds of homeowners there...the 'natives' who lived there since their grandparents got off the boat...and real estate 'developers' who would buy one of these little houses and subdivide the he## out of it (6 small rooms = 4 minuscule apartments) stuff four or five foreign students into each apartment and recoup their original investment in about an hour and half. Home values plummeted, and my dad would just pray that Pitt would expand south of the Boulevard of the Allies for any reason...just to take that house off his hands...Oakland!!!


248 posted on 03/16/2005 7:45:57 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: RayBob

LOL...I know where Indianola is too...okay, how about Star Junction?


249 posted on 03/16/2005 7:47:16 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: HereComesTheGOP
IE; The Hill District, Northside, East McKeesport, etc etc etc.....

The Hill is black, by choice. Are you suggesting that whites should be forced to move in or a few Asians and Hispanics?

The Northside is the largest section of the City of Pittsburgh. Geographically, it covers more area than any other and more than many combined. Within that area, there are numerous all white, all black, and mixed race neighborhoods. How would you change that and why?

East McKeesport is a mostly white middle class neighborhood. It's not a part of Pittsburgh and is actually quite far away. Why would you include them in 'Pittsburgh'?

Are you from the 'burgh? Are you familiar with the layout? Do you know why almost every neighborhood name ends in 'Hill'? Pittsburgh self segregated since the beginning as immigrants for the same part of the old world moved close to others who spoke the same language and shared the same values and culture?

Are you suggesting that there is something wrong with that, then or now.

250 posted on 03/16/2005 7:58:14 PM PST by Badray (Quinn's First Law -- Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.)
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To: Badray; HereComesTheGOP

And I'll add, many of the neighborhoods are geographically defined by rivers, streams, hills, mountains, hollows, bridges, railroad tracks. The topography more than anything dictated the design (or lack of) for the Burgh and Allegheny County.


251 posted on 03/16/2005 8:03:18 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: HereComesTheGOP
(Needs residential downtown aka Center City)

No. The city needs a fiscally sound manager to draw people and business back anywhere within the city limits. In the last 30 years, Democrat 'leadership' has cut the population in half. Pittsburgh was also a leader in Corporate HQs being located in Pittsburgh.

Now, where exactly downtown do you want people to live? And why is that a necessity?

252 posted on 03/16/2005 8:08:23 PM PST by Badray (Quinn's First Law -- Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.)
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To: SE Mom
There is NO good reason for AK-47's to be "on the streets".

Yeah, they can be a bit ornery and skittish, so you must keep 'em on a leash. B-)
253 posted on 03/16/2005 8:09:14 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("Borders, Language, Culture!" - Michael Savage)
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To: HereComesTheGOP

We also had a house blow up in a gas explosion as well, it was a mile away from where I live. I even felt the shockwave hit my house.


254 posted on 03/16/2005 8:10:34 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("Borders, Language, Culture!" - Michael Savage)
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To: jmc813
Would you feel better if these people got shot with a 9mm?

Good one but I like my hero Archie Bunker's reply much better, "would you feel better if they fell out of buildings?"
255 posted on 03/16/2005 8:12:50 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("Borders, Language, Culture!" - Michael Savage)
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To: R. Scott
But then again, the Brown Bess had that nasty evil ugly bayonet lug.

Best chuckle I've had all day!

256 posted on 03/16/2005 8:13:20 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Bogey78O
You deserve to get flamed considering the "AK-47" sold in America isn't anything more dangerous than what was sold 50 or 75 years ago to anyone over 18.

A little futher than that, I saw a Winchester SLR (Self Loading Rifle) of 1907 in a 1908 Sears Catalog. It was in a .351 caliber IIRC, sort of looks a little like an M-14 from the drawing. I think Denmark was the first to use semi-auto rifles in their army back in the 1890's
257 posted on 03/16/2005 8:18:53 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("Borders, Language, Culture!" - Michael Savage)
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To: SE Mom
There is NO good reason for AK-47's to be "on the streets".

Correct.

They should be in *every* home's closet, not in the streets.

258 posted on 03/16/2005 8:33:37 PM PST by Lazamataz (Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
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To: Just another Joe
The police were THERE when this went down. And they still haven't caught the shooters?

Right. And they cannot even identify the firearm.

MIGHT have been an EEEEEvil "assault weapon".

259 posted on 03/16/2005 8:34:41 PM PST by Lazamataz (Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
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To: mountaineer
I could count on one hand the number of times I've ventured to the North Hills - strictly a "Sahth Hills" girl here!

But I know that you've been dahntahn more than once. ;-)

260 posted on 03/16/2005 8:35:20 PM PST by Badray (Quinn's First Law -- Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.)
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