Weapons common on Oregon college campus despite 'gun-free zone'

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50. Glad you asked, here's several:

Pearl High School:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20123633,00.html

The school's assistant principal, Joel Myrick, retrieved a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol from his truck and, spotting Woodham attempting to flee the parking lot after the shooting, shouted for him to stop. After Woodham's mother's car got stuck in the grass, Myrick ordered him out of the car at gunpoint and detained Woodham until police arrived at the scene.

Clackamas Town Center:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2037285

Man With Concealed Weapon at Clackamas Town Center

Portland, Oregon
by Mike Benner, KGW Staff

Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:18 AM

Updated Monday, Dec 17 at 11:52 AM

PORTLAND -- Nick Meli is emotionally drained. The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire.

"I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, 'are you serious?,'" he said.

The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.

"He was working on his rifle," said Meli. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."

The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.

"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.

Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.

"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."

The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.

"I don't ever want to see anyone that way ever," said Meli. "It just bothers me."

Parker Middle School dance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Middle_School_dance_shooting

The shooting began on an outdoor patio, about 20 minutes before the dance was scheduled to end, around 9:40. He shot John Gillette after he asked Wurst to come inside. Before running out of ammunition, Wurst proceeded to enter Nick's Place, where the dance had been held, and subsequently fired and wounded Edrye Boraten, a teacher and two students, Jacob Tury and Justin Fletcher.[1] The shooting ended when the owner of Nick's Place, James Strand, intervened and confronted Wurst with his shotgun, ordering him to drop his weapon and later holding him at bay for eleven minutes. Strand later got Wurst on the ground and searched him for weapons, finding a dinner fork in his sock.

Freewill Baptist Church:

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20120325/ARTICLES/120329781/1112

About 11:20 a.m., Jesse Gates returned to the church. The Rev. Guyton's grandson, Aaron Guyton, 26, was in the recreation building separate from the church and saw Gates get a shotgun from the trunk of his car.

“At that point, I knew I had to do something,” Aaron Guyton said. “I wanted to try to contain him outside.”

Aaron Guyton went into the main building and locked the doors.

Henry Guyton said he was in the pulpit, preaching about how Jesus spoke the word of God and healed the sick, when Gates kicked open the side door of the sanctuary and entered with the shotgun, pointing it at the pastor and congregation.

Church members, including Aaron Guyton, a concealed weapons permit holder, acted quickly.

Aaron Guyton held Gates at gunpoint, as church members Jesse Smith and Leland Powers held him on the floor and waited for deputies to arrive.

Austin construction site:

http://kxan.com/2014/04/30/2-hurt-in-shooting-near-downtown/

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Two people were hurt in a shootout just before noon at a West Campus area construction site near the intersection of Rio Grande Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Austin police are not yet releasing the names of the two men involved but said the suspect was recently fired from the construction site and returned with a gun. He opened fire on the site’s foreman, who drew his own gun and returned fire — hitting the suspect.

Police say the foreman has a Concealed Handgun License and was allowed to have the gun with him at work. Police say the suspect had recently returned to the site and had been threatening the foreman, so a police report was filed.

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital:

http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20140808/mercy-fitzgerald-shooting-suspect-out-of-hospital-placed-in-prison

Richard S. Plotts, 49, of Upper Darby, was released from the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania Thursday and is now incarcerated at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility. Plotts was taken to the hospital after he allegedly shot and killed Theresa Hunt, his caseworker, and wounded Dr. Lee Silverman. The doctor was able to return fire against Plotts, critically wounding him.

Plotts is facing charges of first- and third-degree murder, criminal homicide, possessing an instrument of crime, illegal possession of a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license and reckless endangerment as a result of the July 24 shooting. Plotts allegedly arrived about an hour early for a scheduled appointment at the Sister Marie Lenahan Wellness Center on Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital’s Yeadon campus that afternoon. Hunt brought him to Silverman’s office, where Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan said that Plotts became agitated. Whelan said that Plotts was allegedly upset about the ban on possessing guns on hospital property.

Whelan said that Plotts shot Hunt in the head, killing her, before turning the gun toward Silverman. Silverman was struck in the thumb and suffered a graze wound to the head before he managed to shoot Plotts three times with a gun he kept in his desk drawer. Two other hospital employees subdued Plotts after he was shot, and investigators say that Plotts had more than 30 additional rounds of ammunition and was prepared to kill more people.

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