Active shooter at Delta State campus, 1 victim dead

[brooklynite]

Source: Clarion-Ledger

A professor is dead and an active shooter is allegedly loose on the Delta State campus near Jobe Hall.

Bolivar County Coroner Dr. Nate Brown said the professor was shot, but could not give any further information at this time.

Cleveland Police Department confirmed the victim was taken by ambulance, and the suspect is on the loose.

Authorities are asking that students and faculty please take immediate lock down action.

Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/09/14/active-shooter-delta-state-university-campus/72254712/

[turbinetree]

1. Just in two days...................

a state trooper in Missouri, and now this---------------heh, NRA, your policy is a complete and utter failure, just like your backers in Congress----------------how do you spell failure--------I know .............. NRA------------GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA and the MANUFACTURES







Enough is Enough

[YoungDemCA]

2. For me, Newtown showed that nothing will change any time soon

If approximately 30 young children and their schoolteachers can be gunned down in cold blood at an elementary school, and no gun control legislation could be enacted even after that, then nothing will change any time soon.

America as a society has accepted this as the new normal.

[samsingh]

3. more human sacrifice at the alter of gun propoents

more guns = more deaths by guns.

now had the professor been armed and able to look 360 degrees at all times, perhaps he could have shot first - and possibly killed suspicious students along the way.

[47of74]

6. Or if all the students were packing heat at all times as the GOP gun worshippers want

[samsingh]

8. there would be shoot outs and people would claim they felt threatened

[47of74]

10. Exactly

[David__77]

4. This just happened here in Sacramento earlier this month.

At Sacramento City College...

[deurbano]

5. My parents attended when it was "Delta State Teachers College"... and segregated.

[Joe Nation]

7. We had 5 students killed in 2008

This country has decided that education is only for the wealthy and the States are no longer funding public education with any meaningful budgets forcing students to take on massive debt, lowering the quality of education, decreasing diversity on campuses, and it is happening in every single state.

I don't know the motive for this recent attack on a college campus but I have heard from students that all of the financial pressure and all of the uncertainly is causing many to dropout, act out, and even consider suicide. Higher education is under assault not just by gun wielding crazies but by the State Governments, by their administrations, and by billionaire governors that have power over these institutions.

I fear shootings like this one, if it turns out to be a student, are just the tip of the iceberg. Education isn't failing students, we are failing to educate students and this type of shortsighted behavior will be our undoing.

[ancianita]

9. So sorry, brooklynite, for my redundant OP. I must have missed it as I looked around.