A student believed to have opened fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Friday morning is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to two law-enforcement sources.

Police have not released details, but there are reports of as many as six other people injured.

Ambulances are staging around the school and police are searching room to room with guns drawn, leaving tape to mark the doors of the rooms that have been cleared.

Some students were being evacuated from the school, walking out and across the fields with their hands up. Some were being bused to a nearby church. Others were being told to stay inside classrooms.

The shooting was reported about 10:45 a.m.

We’ll update this post with more information.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/shooting-reported-at-marysville-pilchuck-high-school/

Another mass shooting brought to you by the NRA and the spineless politicians they purchase with blood money.

Prayers for all that were injured and condolences to the victims families.

Prayers that their deaths won't be in vain.

if Congress couldn't even pass a UBC after the horror of Sandy Hook, what makes you think there'll be any legislation this time around?
God, I hate being a realist.

But I won't stop complaining about it.

how about doing what I do?
I write my lawmakers, both state and federal, I personally visit my lawmakers when I can, I donate money to the candidates that I think wil do the best, things like that.
Now, I don't know you, you may very well do all these things, so if you do, then, kudos.

tell politicians it's OK to pass tough laws, they will be enacted.

shoot people, support Zimmermans, promote them, support NRA, and are more often than not right wingers.

I'm fine with you not "trusting" me.

Nothing that comes from this, on the pro gun or the gun control side, is worth the deaths of these children.

"I've got to stop asking people if they're really that stupid. They take it as a challenge."

but not right now, there's plenty of time later for the blame game.

I imagine many people pretend to know when the appropriate time is or isn't.

I don't do cartoons.
Want a serious conversation? Lose the cartoons and then I'll respond.

See post #34.

I said I don't respond to cartoons.
Big difference.

then complementing it with visual aids. But you rejected
without considering what he was saying/asking, simply
on the basis of the cartoons. Therefore I presumed you
disliked toons or at least were indifferent to them.

but you dont want to hear that.

Maybe we should start figuring out why this shit is happening instead of blaming the gun?

Welcome to DU!

He was using a simple lever action deer rifle, a Winchester .30-30.

Imagine how much worse that could have been if he'd been armed with an ar-15 with 30 round mags?

We have to put an end to this violence.

We should know in the next few days or so.

They freak the fuck out about Ebola, which has not killed anyone infected here, but guns that actually kill people? nope, can't even pass basic safety and sale regulations. Can't even have a Surgeon General to help with the ebola "crisis" because the nominee says that guns are a health and safety issue (which it is) ...........

We are a seriously fucked up country.

someone wasn't responsible
What a waste of life. Hope all wounded recover.

Looks like it was over a girl.

It's twitter, so who knows if it is accurate.

Edit: Nate Hatch and an Andrew Fryberg according to friends/family via twitter.

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RIP

Both the shooting and the fact that BOTH sides are already rushing the politicize it.

Have some respect for the families, at least give them a few days to grieve for their loss.

FWIW, I agree with you.

On many levels.

For now the only level that matters is the victims and families

...so easily available.

Which is both sick, and sad, when you think on it.

How about with respect for the families we come up with some possible solutions?

We are not teaching our children well. The easy access to firearms has to be dealt with.

Somehow we need to light a fire under Congress to change some of the laws to reflect what the majority of people want in this country.

I remember back in the day (1980) being able to buy a firearm (a pistol) from a friend for 60 bucks. In High School! Some things need to change...and need to change ASAP.

All you can do is hold someone responsible if something happens.

not securing their weapons around children, it'll have a ripple effect and more people will safe store them.
At least it's something.

But I am concerned that some people don't understand that you can't sent police into homes for "compliance checks" on laws. I've encountered a few here.

My thoughts and prayers go out to all the parents at that school. Oh, how I hope I-591 fails and I-594 passes.

Is this true?

He didn't say a word. He stood up and shot 5 people, two of which were his cousins.

What would have stopped this would be if all you NRA-types kept your guns where your kids CANNOT get them. AND stop giving your children deadly weapons.

accidentally shoot themselves and others. so. no thank you. taking the risk that some do gooder with a gun, ooops, kills my kid. whether anger or accident, dead is dead.

We don't let them drive until a certain age or drink alcohol or smoke. Sure they will try but the adults who are careless or who enable them usually pay a price for it whether in money, lawyers, or even having their licenses taken from them. So I think we need to make adults responsible for their guns by making any minor possessing a gun illegal and punishing the adults who allow them to, a seller, a parent or other adult.

The Washington Universal Background Checks for Gun Purchases, Initiative 594 is on the November 4, 2014 ballot in the state of Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature.

If approved by voters, the measure would require background checks to be run on every person purchasing a gun in the state of Washington, even those who are doing so via private sales. However, transfers of antique guns and those between immediate family members would be exempt from the background checks. The measure also requires that dealers who are facilitating gun transfers, be they through the licensed dealer or a private seller, receive confirmation in writing from the chief of police or sheriff that the purchaser in question "is eligible to possess a pistol [...] and that the application to purchase is approved by the chief of police or sheriff." Furthermore, the initiative would render it illegal to hand off a firearm to people outside a person's immediate family, though exceptions are mentioned, including situations in which people are at a shooting range or hunting.[1][2]

I will bet that was his parent's unsecured weapon.

elected "Prince" of the school by other students. So it seems it's up to us to keep guns out of the hands of minors, period. Legislators, it's time for you guys to work for a change.

This guy killed a girl because she rejected him, I really want to know why he thought he could take her life. What in his upbringing did he see that gave him this idea.

I'd love to see the thinking that women are possessions eliminated.