{"id":33931,"date":"2013-02-01T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33931"},"modified":"2013-02-01T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:26:53","slug":"resource-officer-in-atlanta-stops-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33931","title":{"rendered":"Resource officer in Atlanta ends school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eggs sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/world\/55742445-68\/shooting-atlanta-police-says.html.csp\">Associated Press<\/a> that, for some odd reason, isn&#8217;t getting much coverage in the news. It seems that one student shot and injured another student before he was disarmed by the resource officer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wounded boy was taken &#8220;alert, conscious and breathing&#8221; to Grady Memorial Hospital, said police spokesman Carlos Campos. He was expected to be released Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police swarmed the school of about 400 students after reports of the shooting while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were kept at the locked-down school for more than two hours before being dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the shooting was not random and that something occurred between the two students that may have led to it.<\/p>\n<p>Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis said the school does have metal detectors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given how much school shootings have been in the news in recent years, you&#8217;d think that one that was nearly thwarted would be headline stuff, but I haven&#8217;t seen it in my travels around the internet today. <\/p>\n<p>So, my take away is that metal detectors aren&#8217;t dependable, or at less dependable than armed resource officers. I&#8217;m sure someone else will take away something completely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eggs sends us a link from the Associated Press that, for some odd reason, isn&#8217;t getting &hellip; <a title=\"Resource officer in Atlanta ends school shooting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33931\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resource officer in Atlanta ends school shooting<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}