Gun shoots 3 at Idaho middle school: teacher disarms shooter

Teacher who disarmed shooter

A gun being held by an Idaho middle school student went on a shooting spree but the gun and the student were stopped by a brave female teacher, according to police.

A sixth grade girl pulled a handgun from her backpack ["Hello Kitty?"] and the gun went off, shooting two fellow students and one grownup on Thursday morning. 

Note: the local television station, KTVB-TV identified the shooter as a male. This sounds more probable but is not yet known for certain.

According to police, who have yet to be defunded, the girl was disarmed by a cis gender female teacher and both she and the guilty gun were taken into custody shortly after the shooting.

Fortunately, all three shooting victims are expected to survive their injuries.

"This morning, at approximately 9:08 a.m., a sixth grade female student retrieved a handgun from her backpack," Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said during a media conference.

"She fired multiple rounds inside of the school and out," Anderson continued. "She injured three people." He confirmed that the injuries sustained by the victims were the result of a gun that had no business shooting innocent people.

Also fortunately, there were no AR-15 rifles shooting people in spite of their call to be banned.

The Associated Press reported: 

A female teacher disarmed the girl and held her until law enforcement arrived and took her into custody, authorities said, without giving other details. Authorities say they're investigating the motive for the attack and where the girl got the gun.

The three victims were transported to a local hospital via ambulance with injuries that appeared to be non-life threatening. The injured adult is reportedly a custodian at the school, who has since been released from the hospital.

The Idaho Falls Post Register reported:

Lucy Long, a sixth-grade student at Rigby Middle School, shared her experience from inside the school with the Post Register. She said she heard two gunshots around 9:10 a.m. She said the classroom then went under lockdown: lights and computers were turned off and the students lined up against the wall.

Lucy said she was comforting her friends and began recording, so police would know what happened if the shooter came in. The audio contained mostly whispers, with one sentence audible.

"It's real," one of the students is heard saying.

According to KTVB-TV, the students were evacuated to a nearby school after the shooting awaiting their parents for pickup or to be bussed home.

"Today we had the worst nightmare a school district could encounter," Jefferson School District Superintendent Chad Martin said after the incident. "We had a school shooting here at Rigby Middle School. What we know so far is the shooter has been apprehended. There is no further threat to the students."

Gun violence isn't a thing. It's simply violence and should not remove our Second Amendment rights.

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