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Two teens injured in Philadelphia school shooting

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Two teenage American high school students were shot and injured Friday by a student gunman who whipped out a handgun at the end of the school day, police said.

Police said both the injured 15-year-old students, one girl and one boy, were in a stable condition in the hospital.

They said the shooter initially escaped, but a police spokeswoman later told AFP a suspect was taken into custody.

The shooting happened just before 3:30 p.m. at the Delaware Valley Charter High School in Philadelphia, three days after a pupil shot three people at a school in New Mexico.

The two Philadelphia students were both shot in the arm in the gym, police said.

"The school was placed on lockdown. Our SWAT team is in the process now of still clearing the school, but all the students are being released one at a time," one officer told reporters.

The motive for the attack and the identity of the suspect were not immediately disclosed.

Friday's attack was the latest in a long and frequent line of U.S. school shootings that have inflamed a nationwide debate over gun control in the United States.

But even the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 young children and six adults were shot dead, ultimately failed to tighten American gun ownership rules.

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What horror.

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According to CBS3 this is now starting to look like it was an "accident", basically one of the students, obviously the one with the gun, was in the gym sitting next to several other people and apparently the gun discharged by "accident" causing him and apparently two of this friends to flee, the teenage girl has already been released from the hospital(most likely her injury was caused by being grazed by the bullet). One of the boys arrested his family and friends are stating he was not the one who shot the gun, police currently right now are looking attempting to get a warrant to get arrest the other ones.

So for now it is starting to look like it was a gang member who brings a gun to school, most likely on a daily basis concealed, and the guns goes off on him by accident.

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Dollar to donuts, NoLiving is probably correct. We'll soon learn that the shooter was a "troubled youth" with gang affiliations.

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The school was placed on lockdown.

Military-ish jargon is simply another facet of America's glorification of violence and helps perpetuate it. Can't they just say the school was closed, students sent home, and that police are guarding entrances, if that is what happened? Its not like the word "lockdown" clearly communicates any such details anyhow. Its a just a "cool" sounding buzzword that makes people feel more under siege than they actually are.

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@funnycar, to clarify "lockdown", its meaning is closer to "lock in", where all students locked into classrooms by their supervising teachers, a police/ security guard/ administrator check of the school, and after the all clear message a resumption of the school day or the release of students to go home. A scary sounding word helps convey the seriousness of the situation: a potential threat awaiting the arrival of armed police in a possible SWAT-type situation in the midst of hundreds of kids.

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How do kids get guns? Oh, that's right, they are everywhere....just what gun nutters want.

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Noliving: "According to CBS3 this is now starting to look like it was an "accident""

Even if that's the case, him having the gun was no accident. Him NOT having the gun would have meant the accident would never have occured. So he either intentionally shot fellow students, or happened to have a gun and mistakenly shot them. Either way, had he not had the gun, they would not have been shot.

Yet ANOTHER school shooting in less than a week!

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That's right, Torafusa. Growing up in L.A., we were drilled in how to react to earthquakes. Apparently, the "lockdown drill" has replaced this, and for good reason - earthquakes are few and far between, while school shootings are occurring almost weekly. Teaching kids to react quickly and find a place to hunker down has become a tenant of American education.

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Him NOT having the gun would have meant the accident would never have occured.

That is true with everything Smith.

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According to CBS3 this is now starting to look like it was an "accident"

And that's OK then?

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Okay, how does a kid get a gun.....Steal it, or buy it from another who stole it.

Look into the legal consequences for this. Probation!

No! Serve time, no cable TV, no video games, no internet. Just sports and a library for in cell entertainment. Make it un-pleasureable! A deterrent! it drifted away from that.

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Again????

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And that's OK then?

No it is not, I am just simply pointing out that the headline and this outdated article body make it sound like this shooting was on purpose and malicious when in fact that was not the case. There is nothing wrong with me pointing that out is there?

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It sounds like you are trying to say it's not as bad, because it wasn't on purpose.

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NoLiving: "That is true with everything Smith."

What are you talking about here? Please tell me you're not suggesting had he had another weapon like a knife this 'accident' would have occurred. Unless you believe it wasn't actually an accident.

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How about the thug gun culture? Before rappers, Hollywood and all the article highlighting and glorifying this behavior how often did it happened? It didn't!

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Another mass shooting coming soon to a town near you. Wait for it, wait for it. May sound a little negative, but my goodness, there have been how many shootings just this past weekend?

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The anti-gun lobbyists have the same misguided concept as anti-drug activists; They believe prohibiting them will remove them from the society. As we all know from the four-decades-old "war on drugs", not only has that not succeeded in its stated goals, it has produced a huge black market run by the worst people with its high levels of violence, putting literally billions of dollars into the hands of modern day Al Capones. As a secondary effect, outlawing something that was previously legal suddenly puts otherwise law-abiding people in a position of either acquiescing to yet another liberty-destroying collectivist ruling or become outlaws and put their livelihood and family at risk, neither of which are consistent with the concept of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

Prohibitionist thinking is tyranny of the populist/collectivist minority.

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2 teen age Americans?? And in Philly?? Wow!!

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