Columbine-Style Attack by Armed California Teen Thwarted by 'Heroic' Teachers

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This is why we need gun control! Because guns take over people and try to slaughter...

What? The kid did not have a gun? Just a chainsaw, sword and pipe bombs? So, we need sword control?

Ban all cutting instruments! They are dangerous and need to be only used by licensed professionals. It is the failure of Bush and the Joos to protect our children that have allowed this to happen.

When are the teachers going to be sued for harming the self-esteem of this victim of the Right? This kid was just trying to show his displeasure of the way the Republicans have destroyed America. Pray to Obama that He will free this Victim and punish the Right wing Racist teachers who held him against his will.

Now that I got the insanity out of my system, I can praise the teachers for stopping this kook before he got too far. Praise the Lord for real Americans who refuse to wait for the police to rescue them.

These are Heroes! Good for them!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542481,00.html

A teen armed with a sword and chainsaw who had several pipe bombs strapped to his body was arrested Monday after two explosions rocked Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif., KTVU reported.

Police called the foiled attack that forced the evacuation of more than 1,200 students and teachers a Columbine-style plot, according to the station.

San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer told KTVU that the 17-year-old boy came onto campus with the chainsaw, a 2-foot-long sword and 10 homemade pipe bombs attached to a tactical vest he was wearing.

He detonated two of the pipe bombs in an empty hallway near the library, and the smoke activated a fire alarm, Manheimer said.

Authorities fielded several calls from Hillsdale High School beginning at 8:07 a.m. about a gunman on the grounds, the station said. Shortly thereafter, reports came in of an explosion inside the school.

Two teachers heard the explosions, ran into the hallway and confronted the teen, who then fled, Manheimer told KTVU. A third teacher caught up with the boy and tackled him, according to police Lt. Mike Brunicardi. Another arrived a minute later with school Principal Jeff Gilbert to help hold the suspect down.

Brunicardi called the actions by Gilbert and the teachers "simply heroic," according to KTVU.

"All the while that the teachers and principal are confronting this kid, holding him down and tackling him, he's got eight live pipe bombs attached to his person," Brunicardi said.

No one was hurt in the explosion and no gun was found, according to Manheimer.

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i think that teacher is a hero.

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