Vigil draws hundreds after New Mexico shooting

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Source: AP

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A 12-year-old New Mexico boy used a shotgun to shoot and wound two classmates at his middle school Tuesday morning before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon and he was taken into custody, officials and witnesses said. A boy was critically injured and a girl was in stable condition following the shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell.

Gov. Susana Martinez said the students were in the gym, where they typically hang out before classes start during cold and inclement weather. The 12-year-old opened fire with the shotgun there at about 8 a.m. However, he was "quickly stopped by one staff member who walked right up to him and asked him to set down the firearm, which he did," Martinez said.

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On Tuesday night, hundreds of people poured into the Roswell Civic Center for a prayer vigil, including elected officials and law enforcement officers from various agencies. There were many hugs and tears. "We really need this," Roswell resident Maria Lucero, 35, said of the vigil. "We need to pray for the families of the victims and the little boy that did the shooting. I'm going to pray for them all."

Eighth-grader Odiee Carranza said she was walking to the school gym when the shooter bumped into her as he rushed past. She told him to be careful, and he apologized and continued on. The boy ran to the gym, where he pulled a gun from a band instrument case and fired at the students. "Then he shot up in the sky, then dropped the gun, and then some teacher grabbed the kid that had the gun," Carranza said.

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Responsible gun owners are responsible up until their gun is used by a kid in a crime.

Right?

[valerief]

1. Alas! If only ALL the 12 year olds had guns. And grenades, too.

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. "I want to make sure the community knows there's really nobody else out there." -Police chief

If only if only.

[rurallib]

3. the thought of sa prayer vigil makes me think of that old saying

"God helps those who help themselves."
I am no longer religious.
If all those people who think that a prayer is going to do any good without some effort on their part, they are really deluded.
If you want God or some other supernatural being to put an end to this national nightmare, help them out by removing guns from our daily lives.
What is that old definition of crazy? Doing something over and over and expecting a different result? That is pretty much what we have here. It is almost a constant in American life - senseless shooting, prayers, no action to limit firearms, outrage by gun nuts followed by another senseless shooting, prayers, lack of action, outrage, senseless shooting, prayers, no action, outrage, senseless shooting ----ad infinitum.