01-24-2013, 12:22 PM
You guys may be right. If it looks like this is just another shooting over a personal dispute which simply happened to occur on a campus, it doesn't really further the gun control narrative for either side. Fade out...
The LA times did however interview the police spokeswoman after the late press conference yesterday. She confirmed that police have not found the gun, which might also explain why details and follow up are scarce. Police reportedly arrived on the scene within 4 minutes of the first 911 call and found the two men and the custodian shot, but no gun. Bullets indicate that all shots came from the same gun. The man being charged with the assault was shot in the upper leg and ass. The police spokeswoman stated that they are trying to figure out if he shot himself. Highly unlikely that they were self-inflicted given the location of the wounds, imo. More likely that the other guy involved in the dispute got ahold of the gun and shot his assailant at some point, or that the assailant was shot with his own gun by a third party.
Police are looking into the possibility of an accomplice being involved. I think it's also possible that an unassociated third party could have jacked the gun and fled. Somebody's running around with that gun and I don't think either of the two men involved in what is being called an "adolescent idiotic dispute" are giving up much to police although it doesn't appear that either is unconscious or has life-threatening wounds.
Ref:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/natio...7228.story
Relation to Concealed Carry on Campuses: A bill was introduced last week by a Texas senator to allow concealed carry for all college students in the state. The major opposition is coming from college presidents who have defeated similar proposals in the past. The president of the Lone Star College has been quoted a few times in the media using this incident to support objection to armed students. Still haven't seen confirmation as to whether anyone involved in the shooting was actually a student.
The LA times did however interview the police spokeswoman after the late press conference yesterday. She confirmed that police have not found the gun, which might also explain why details and follow up are scarce. Police reportedly arrived on the scene within 4 minutes of the first 911 call and found the two men and the custodian shot, but no gun. Bullets indicate that all shots came from the same gun. The man being charged with the assault was shot in the upper leg and ass. The police spokeswoman stated that they are trying to figure out if he shot himself. Highly unlikely that they were self-inflicted given the location of the wounds, imo. More likely that the other guy involved in the dispute got ahold of the gun and shot his assailant at some point, or that the assailant was shot with his own gun by a third party.
Police are looking into the possibility of an accomplice being involved. I think it's also possible that an unassociated third party could have jacked the gun and fled. Somebody's running around with that gun and I don't think either of the two men involved in what is being called an "adolescent idiotic dispute" are giving up much to police although it doesn't appear that either is unconscious or has life-threatening wounds.
Ref:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/natio...7228.story
Relation to Concealed Carry on Campuses: A bill was introduced last week by a Texas senator to allow concealed carry for all college students in the state. The major opposition is coming from college presidents who have defeated similar proposals in the past. The president of the Lone Star College has been quoted a few times in the media using this incident to support objection to armed students. Still haven't seen confirmation as to whether anyone involved in the shooting was actually a student.