BREAKING: Active shooter at Arapahoe High School in Colorado

[Are_grits_groceries]

@mpoppel:
KUSA-TV: Police calling incident at Colorado high school an "active shooter situation"; at least 2 people believed injured
Arapahoe High in Centennial, CO

@mpoppel:
KMGH-TV: Sheriff says gunman still believed to be inside high school where gunfire has been reported; at least 2 injured

Kids running from the school:


@mitchellbyars:
RT @ryanparkerdp: Students tell me 2 students were shot about 30 minutes ago. Shooter also shot, they say

[Blue_Adept]

1. The price we (others) pay

for freedom.

[malaise]

5. No the price paid for irresponsible gun laws n/t

[dhill926]

35. The hell does that mean?

[SummerSnow]

2. :( not again

[malaise]

3. Good fugging grief

Live coverage on CNN

[JEFF9K]

4. The only way to stop an active shooter is with an inactive shooter. Does that sound right?

[seabeyond]

9. are you starting a stupid yea gun thing again? here? cause, i do not play this stupid ass game

but when in the middle of something like this it is such poor taste to do the whole stupid gun argument.

and if you are not cause i do not do the stupid gun thing, then .... my bad

[HappyMe]

27. NOT NOW.

You are welcome to express that in the gungeon.

[JEFF9K]

60. It's a prediction of the right-wing defense.

[villager]

6. The gift of gun nuts and ammo apologists everywhere, just in time for the holidays.

Thanks again, fetishists.

[raccoon]

38. The gift that keeps on giving! nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

55. Yes, because "collective guilt" is logical.

Oh, wait...

[seabeyond]

7. why colorado. it came up the state where people are happiest. shooting people is not happy. nt

[Pretzel_Warrior]

12. Apparently "Happiest State" award didn't mean 100% are happy

Not to mention some are deranged (such as the ones who recalled their state legislators over new gun laws).

[seabeyond]

16. true.

i am looking to move there and putting son in a high school. we tell ourselves the odds are so very very very low, but the image of Columbine and the theater are very powerful.

[Laffy Kat]

18. I live in CO and there are so many guns and so many rednecks.

Not so much in my county (Boulder) but Littleton is notorious. Arapaho High is in the same district as Littleton (Columbine, of course).

[seabeyond]

20. i jsut saw where it was not far from columbine.

thanks laffy. it is that colorado has a couple that leace such a powerful image. that is what i reacted to. it does happen all over the country of course.

[Laffy Kat]

42. I know. Actually, I was wrong about the school district.

Columbine was Jefferson County School Dist. and Arapaho is in Centennial, but it is just a line; the two schools are close to each other.

[DevonRex]

25. We just have some nuts. And nuts come here

from other places.

[seabeyond]

29. ya.... and

did you read i was looking to move to colorado and were you implying....

i tease.

i didnt know you lived there. yea. beautiful. hate the mountain roads though.

[TBF]

8. Here we go again.

Someone be sure to remind the NRA to send their usual "debriefers" immediately ...

[get the red out]

47. Those guys never seem to get a day off

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Dammit!

The local Denver stations are showing their regular programs, little crawl across the bottom of the screen...

Okay, ch7 now discussing; Littleton area schools on lockdown; now ch9 -- two victims, no details on condition or identities.

Ch4 on scene down the street from the school; 300 kids evac'd from school library; view from outside LE perimeter

[politichew]

11. 15 miles from Columbine...

WILL IT NEVER STOP?!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Godammit. nt

[stevenleser]

14. But guns make us safer. Gun enthusiasts say so. nt

[madamesilverspurs]

15. follow television coverage:

http://www.9news.com/news/article/368628/71/2-injured-at-Arapahoe-High-School

[big_dog]

17. update

Shooter still believed to be inside Colorado school, sheriff says
By CNN Staff
updated 3:21 PM EST, Fri December 13, 2013

(CNN) -- Authorities believe at least two people have been injured in a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, on Friday, Sheriff Grayson Robinson told CNN affiliate KMGH.
The shooter is still believed to be inside the school, Robinson said.
Schools in the area, part of the Littleton Public Schools system, have been put on lock down, authorities said. http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/us/colorado-school-shooting/

[madamesilverspurs]

19. Unconfirmed: one shooter down inside school

waiting for more

[darkangel218]

21. Yah, the price we pay for "freedom".

Allow anyone, ANYONE! own a gun!! What kind of fuct up freedom is that, if we disregard our own people's safety????


Fuck this shit!!!

[rollin74]

22. police scanner link

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/44/web

sounds like they're clearing the school room by room now

[DevonRex]

23. Three miles from my house. A few miles

from Columbine as the crow flies. Swat is there. ATF, FBI. Littleton PD, Arapahoe & Douglas County LE.

[darkangel218]

28. WTF!!!!

[Skidmore]

30. Tom Costello just reported on this story on MSNBC. He said he was a graduate of this high school

and has strong ties in that community.

[abbeyco]

43. I'm about 2 miles away

The helicopters above have been the giveaway.

Disgusting that this would/could happen again in this community.

Peace and prayers - so many of my local friends have kids at Arapahoe now.

[DevonRex]

58. At least this time I don't know any kids or teachers hiding

In janitor closets. With Columbine I knew a lot of the kids. And the ATF & FBI agents in charge at the scene, one of whom had a son inside.

I'm so happy this one ended quickly and without large numbers of dead students/teachers. With Columbine the kids who weren't hurt physically were scarred emotionally just because they had to hide for so many hours. Most people don't realize just how many were still alive in that school, some right alongside their dead friends. Others alone or with 1 or 2 others in tiny cabinets or closets, anywhere they could squeeze themselves into.

They've never been the same. An event like that changes a person for life, even though life goes on.

[madamesilverspurs]

24. Aerial view

students being evac'd with hands up, looks like they're getting patted down, precautionary protocol

[seabeyond]

31. thank you for keeping us updated coloradians... nt

[spanone]

26. just another ho hum day at school in america....

[mfcorey1]

32. Oh no not again!

[Rambis]

34. and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.......

[alp227]

33. Colorado's Progressive Talk AM 760 has interrupted Thom Hartmann

to carry running coverage of this shooting from sister station KOA 850 (which is supposed to have a delayed presentation of Rush Limbaugh right now).

Listen live: http://am760.net/

Colorado Public Radio should have an update the top of the next hour: http://www.cpr.org/

[DisgustipatedinCA]

36. 2 politicians were recently recalled in CO for supporting common-sense gun legislation

Those who voted for these recalls, and those right-wing groups that pushed for these recalls, have blood on their hands. They need to roast in a hell I don't actually believe in. Short of that, they need to have blame laid directly at their feet, and they need to be made to understand that they're unacceptable in our society.

[rdharma]

51. The apathy of Democrats in the recall was also shameful!

"not so angry voters"

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-11-2013/not-so-angry-voters

[TheMastersNemesis]

52. The Recallers Were Essentially Rednecks, White Supremacists, & Survivalists Not Necessarily From D19

My sense was that much of the recall was driven from out of Senate District 19. It was mostly driven by money and people who did not even have the right to vote in that districts. Most of the signers were white crackers. A good number of them were low income people who are angry at taxes and being broke. There are a lot of deeply racist pockets in that district. Faith Bible Chapel, the local nut case church supported the recall from what we know.

Something is wrong when you cannot pass sensible legislation and are recalled for it. And the rumor is that a new recall of the new appointee is planned. But you have to wait 6 months otherwise we would be on the street by January. The recoilers are saying recall is the new normal.

[madamesilverspurs]

37. SHOOTER IS DEAD

Apparently, self-inflicted.

Shotgun.

Male, student at the school.

[herding cats]

41. Did they say if they were they one of the two who were listed as injured? nt

[LeftyMom]

45. No, the two injured are separate.

One has a gunshot wound and is in a condition described as serious, the other has a minor injury which may not have been a gunshot wound, per whoever was doing the press conference (somebody from the PD I think.) Both are students.

[Johonny]

48. I believe the correct term is that the shooter has been deactivated

[malaise]

39. Suspect dead per press conference

Two others shot.

[Skidmore]

40. Reporting now that gunman committed suicide.

[B Calm]

44. Gun man was a student at high school. He shot and

critically wounded another student.

[Are_grits_groceries]

46. Tweet from a reporter there:

@mitchellbyars: RT @ryanparkerdp:
I have to hug every student I interview, I can't help it. #arapahoehigh

It's hard to remain detached when reporting these stories.

[mwrguy]

50. military-style pump shotgun, just like the DC shipyard & aurora theatre massacres

These things should not be on the streets any more than assault rifles.

[HereSince1628]

53. What does military type mean, and how do you know that?

The sheriff was pretty tight lipped about details in that last press conference

[Lizzie Poppet]

57. Um...you do realize one pump shotgun is just like the next, right?

Nothing that might make a pump-action shotgun "military style" has anything to do with how the weapon actually functions: folding stocks, accessory rails, plastic stock instead of wood, etc. They tend to have shorter barrels, and since magazine capacity is directly tied to barrel length on a pump shotgun (the shells go in a tube underneath the barrel, which for obvious reasons can't extend past the muzzle), they don't tend to carry more ammo. The basic gun remains exactly the same as the one Uncle Bill shoots at ducks with.

[Vashta Nerada]

54. Aw geez.

[nadinbrzezinski]

56. Ah yes, the shooting of the month

Jaded I am

[Paladin]

59. Go into your dance, DU Gun Enthusiasts.

C'mon, give us one more chorus of that "You Can't Get Emotional About School Shootings" rag. And really put yourselves into it, given that tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Newtown massacre. Afterwards, you can pat yourselves on the backs about the sort of society you've helped to create, the one the rest of us have to live in.....