Student Shooting the Morning of the First Day of School

Off to a bad start, how many more school shootings will we have this year because adults do not secure firearms adequately and because firearms are too damned easy to acquire?  There appear to have been 2 shots fired; thank goodness there were not more.

Unarmed teachers successfully disarmed this 15 year old student, who shot another student, 17, apparently at rando. The victim of the shooting is in the hospital; the (alleged) shooter is in custody.

From the AP by way of WLS news:

Baltimore County School Shooting: Student shot at Maryland high school; suspect held

Monday, August 27, 2012

A Baltimore County police officer speaks to a parent as students are evacuated from Perry Hall High School after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes in Perry Hall, Md. ((AP Photo/Steve Ruark))         

August 27, 2012 (PERRY HALL, Md.) -- Authorities say a student who was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at a Baltimore County high school was shot at random.

Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson said at a news conference Monday afternoon that officers believed that the shooter, who was also a student at Perry Hall High School, fired at random and struck the 17-year-old victim.

Johnson says the shooter took out a weapon he had hidden when teachers and a school resource officer immediately rushed him. Johnson said a second shot was fired. The shooter was quickly subdued.
A hospital spokeswoman says the teen who was shot is in critical condition.
Johnson says the shooter acted alone. Police found the weapon he used but would not say what it was.