Fla. university locked down after gun fired at campus party

[Ghost in the Machine]

Fla. university locked down after gun fired at campus party
Published: 4/30/08, 10:05 AM EDT

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Exams were canceled and students were told to stay in their dormitories Wednesday as authorities searched Florida Atlantic University for a man who fired a gun at a party on campus, slightly injuring one person.

Shots were fired early Wednesday at the party in student apartments, police said.

"An altercation broke out and ultimately our suspect pulled out a firearm and, we believe, fired two shots," FAU Police Chief Charles Lowe said.

One person was slightly hurt but did not need treatment at a hospital, Lowe said. It's not immediately clear if the injured person, who was not a student, was hit by a bullet, officials said. It also was not known whether the unidentified male suspect was a student.

After officers responded to the shooting, sirens, mass e-mails and other announcements over the school's public address system notified students of an emergency and warned them to remain indoors.

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[glowing]

1. Oh no, fear, fear, fear. stay indoors.. lock yourself up.. How many kids

are taking today to throw a kegger.. I know we would have. but then again that was 10yrs ago.

[madinmaryland]

2. Now, if all the student could carry concealed weapons....

:popcorn:

[SteveM]

4. What? In a "gun-free zone?" Surely, that can't happen.

[madinmaryland]

5. Well, we would not need "gun-free zones" if everyone was allowed

to carry a gun!!

[SteveM]

6. Who supports "everyone" carrying a gun? I sure don't. (nt)

[madinmaryland]

7. Oops.

Sorry, I should have had the :sarcasm: smilie on! Not impying anything about you.

[SteveM]

12. Damn! I have a 98.3% chance of catching sarcasm.

[kevinbgoode]

9. But..but how would the wingnuts cream their jeans over visions

of Wild West-style gunfights on all of our main streets?

[SteveM]

11. Why are you obsessed with sperm in your pants? That wasn't the subject.

[Iris]

13. ha! ha! I was just thinking the same thing.

Isn't there some NRA legislation somewhere out there trying to do just that?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Maybe he was testing the proposed law

that would allow Floridians to take their guns to work. I mean, who knows? Maybe the shooter's work is going to parties.....:sarcasm:

[benEzra]

8. Floridians (and residents of most other states) can already "take their guns to work"

if by that you mean, as the Brady Campaign does, having a gun secured in a locked car in the parking lot while you are working elsewhere. The new law you are thinking of only exempts those authorized by the state to carry a weapon from warrantless parking lot searches.

It was prompted by an incident at Weyerhauser in which the corporation conducted a warrantless search of cars in the parking lot on the first day of hunting season and fired everyone who either had a gun in the car, or refused to allow the corporation to search their vehicle.

[LanternWaste]

10. Haven't you heard--

Hey now---

Haven't you heard-- when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will shoot off their guns at parties... :)