I didn't know, but it looks like Taft is a community of about 7,000 located 30 miles southwest of Bakersfield, in the San Joaquin Valley.

Probably a shotgun or a smaller caliber handgun, probably well below the threshholds of assault weapons the current administration is looking to ban.

Not all student shootings involve assault weapons and not all issues supporting the second amendment involve hunting.

Looks that way, Elwood.

One report I read somewhere said that the weapon was "a shotgun."

This happened around noon our time, I guess? We should know more in the next few hours, then.

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another Tennessean is making the rounds of promoting violence with guns over gun control. The CEO of Tactical Response comes unglued. (expletives deleted, emphasis mine)

"Vice President [Joe] Biden is asking the president to bypass Congress and use executive privilege, executive order to ban assault rifles and to impose stricter gun control," Yeager explained in his video message. "F*&% that."

"I'm telling you that if that happens, it's going to spark a civil war, and I'll be glad to fire the first shot. I'm not putting up with it. You shouldn't put up with it. And I need all you patriots to start thinking about what you're going to do, load your damn mags, make sure your rifle's clean, pack a backpack with some food in it and get ready to fight."

The CEO concluded: "I'm not f&*%$# putting up with this. I'm not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I'm not letting anybody take my guns! If it goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people."

Is it even remotely possible to have some semblance of intelligence (facts are completely missing in his diatribe) in a gun control debate?

My thoughts exactly, Rachel.

Meanwhile, an update at KNS says the California shooting involved a 12 gauge shotgun. Says one student shot another--and the student shot is in critical condition in a Bakersfield hospital--but that the teacher "distracted" the shooter to allow other students to flee the classroom. Says the shooter then fired at another student, missed, and struck the teacher, instead. It *appears* that the teacher was the injured party who declined medical treatment?

I guess the only thing that can stop a "bad guy" with a gun isn't just a "good guy" with a gun, after all.

Reminds me of the time when an off-duty ER physician was "visited" and harassed (maybe threatened) by Fed authorities hours after he yelled from afar to Dick Cheney that the VP should go f*ck himself.

Keith Ratliff, 'gun enthusiast' producer of You Tube videos with almost 3.5 million subscribers, found murdered in Georgia.

Mr. Yeager now says his lawyer advised against his appearing on the Ed Show.

Yeah, caught that. Maybe this lawyer is a little sharper than his client?

Really good show, though.