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Subscribe to RSSWILLCOX, Ariz. -- A student was injured by flying glass when a gunman fired a rifle onto the campus of a high school Thursday, police said.
Willcox police said in a statement that a man was arrested and a weapon believed to have been used was seized.
The suspect was identified as Arthur J. Tineo, 40, of Willcox. Police said he would be charged with three counts of attempted murder along with aggravated assault and weapons charges.
Police said they were called about 3:14 p.m. local time when witnesses reported a man was in a field across from the school baseball field shooting on the campus. One 17-year-old youth suffered minor lacerations from flying glass when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by bullets and was take to a hospital for treatment. A second juvenile in the vehicle was unhurt, police said.
Police said they did not know a motive for the shooting. School superintendent Richard Rundhaug told The Associated Press that an adult shot at another adult before a high school baseball game but missed.
Willcox is in southeastern Arizona, about 70 miles east of Tucson.
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If you have to take your gun beyond your front door (unless you're going to a shooting range or hunting), you're a waste of sperm and egg.
So you are saying, the criminals are ONLY in your house? You need your gun there, but not on the streets?
Ban those guns!
Why aren't you allowed to have one?
I don't need one. I am a man.
Now thats funny. LOL
I've been to Wilcox. People are like something out of freaking Deliverence only in the desert.
I take mine with me all the time. I don't want some punk breaking into my house and stealing it, much safer with me.
+1
Unattended guns, even if locked in a gun safe, are still not as safe as they are when worn/kept with the owner. Provided, of course, that the owner isn't a total loon.
What an odd thing to say, considering that police officers, security officers, detectives, body guards, certain jewelers and others are required to carry a firearm as part of their profession. It's also a good idea to travel armed when in the back-country, whether you're hunting or not. Additionally, anyone whose job requires them to transport large amounts of cash or commodities would be well advised to carry, as well as people whose profession requires them to work in unseemly neighborhoods.
So within the locked doors and relative safety of your home you can arm yourself, but when you step outside (where most bad things happen) you are supposed to leave the best tool possible to defend yourself behind?
Sorry, but that logic is absolutely asinine.
Mike757, Arizona Tumbleweed
I think he meant that if you own a gun, it should be for defensive purposes only. Unless you're using it for recreation. Try actually reading and understanding text.
what_the_81...
I don't like to interject like this, but maybe you should try to actually read and comprehend what was written.
I'm reading this as saying, if you're not bad enough to handle yourself and protect yourself without a firearm, you're a waste.
My answer to that is, I'm in my 60's. I DO carry all the time, in my home and outside where legal. I'm not as nimble and spry as I once was, and contrary to what Toby Keith says, not even once.
However, as I said, I have a wonderful equalizer or two as a partner(s) when I go out.
well said weusall. I'm pro gun rights, but you hit the nail on the head.
So, if he didn't have a gun he would have thrown a rock through the window and there would have been glass flying anyway gun nuts? How about the guy who shot at another person and missed? If he hadn't missed and killed the guy instead, you gun dummies would all be saying that he would have killed the guy some other way if he didn't have a gun. So why didn't he? Why didn't he shoot again or go after the guy with a bat if he didn't think he could get away with shooting again? It's much easier to shoot someone than attack them with a hand tool and many if not most shooting victims would never have even been attacked if the attacker couldn't access a gun. Most gun attackers are cowards who lack the courage to attack in a more personal way. No morons, I'm not saying that no one should have a gun, just that your "the attacker would have killed in some other way if he didn't have a gun" argument is idiotic as is anyone who uses it.
Arizona is a big state. Half of us are armed ALL the time. This is all you got?
The shooting was done by a criminal, who was NOT allowed to have a gun. The same happens everywhere. Just a lot less here.
Half are on drugs.
I will make sure I detour around your state, taking my tourist dollars with me.
Is that a promise?
Arizona, that's tooo funny!!!! @gbgentlemen stay away from fl. they sell a t-shirt that says "Welcome to the Gunshine State......and yes there is allot of us armed including myself, but i do promise if I see you getting robbed or mugged i will not interfere so as i do not infringe on your opinion of gun control.
I all for gun rights, but that's the same weak argument used by bank robbers: "Everybody does it, so why shouldn't I."
The guy's a whacko, and too many Arizona politicians (many of whom are whacko themselves) are complicit in stirring up violent crimes.
I would visit Arizona again, gun nuts or not. When I drove down to California from Saskatchewan back in the 80s, Arizona was what I remembered most, beautiful country. I'll never forget the red river flowing right beside the highway...
Arizona Tumbleweed
Why do you think you need to prove that you are a badass? Why do you think Arizona should be feared? People like you are the reason why the rest of the country hates the state. Settle down, nobody is going to take your gun away to shoot at beer cans with.
what_the_81
Nope, don't need to prove anything.
And I'd be real careful talking about "badass" in a costume like you're wearing....
Oh and personally I prefer a nice single malt 25yo Scotch... straight up.
81: You and gb are the only persons I ever heard talk about being scared of Arizona. All us oldsters scare you?
Arizona Tumbleweed
It takes more than trigger happy psychos like you to scare me.
The "well regulated militia" is having a busy school year......
The right of the people to keep and bear arms allows for a militia, it doesn't mean that everyone who carries a firearm is a member of the militia. Learn your history.
He should have stood on the hill with a line of started cars aimed at the school and one by one put them in gear..........(cause a car is a weapon, right?)
Had he driven into the school he would have been more successful. Turns out we're lucky he used a gun and was a terrible shot.
When you lose the Second Amendment you will lose the First
When we lose the 2nd Amendment, we are in danger of losing them all, Diz.
BTW, the headline is misleading; it makes a casual observer believe there was another shooting in a school, rather than some nutjob who was shooting outside the school. Abuse of the 2nd Amendment should be met with the harshest penalties, as should illegal trafficking in weapons, including the dim-witted "Fast and Furious" debacle perpetrated by our own government. Some of those weapons, and who knows how many, because the idiots in charge lost track, will wind up in the hands of sociopaths and criminals. Brilliant move, BATF!
It's not about guns, or the 2nd Amendment, it's about stupid, irresponsible people. We can't stop illegal drugs from coming into this country, what makes anybody think that we could stop the flow of illegal weapons, many of which originate here in the first place. While we're at it, I'd like to see an audit of how many weapons are missing overseas, ostensibly destined for our troops or "allies"?
It's not enough to be angry, frightened, or disgusted over the issue, which is not going away any time soon. What matters is that we are fed up to the point where we demand that our government put its own house in order, and begin educating the public, starting at an early age, about the benefits and dangers of freedom. The Bill of Rights is not rocket science, but all freedoms have attached responsibilities. We fail as a people in understanding and fulfilling those responsibilities. Childhood's end; time to grow up and shoulder the burden of freedom, or just give all our power to the State, and take what comes for ourselves and our children.
Brilliantly stated, sir.
I think anyone who wants to buy a gun should be able to buy as many as they need to blow their own brains out.........happy hunting...........
Isn't it convenient there are soooo many shootings so we can all get together (pro-gun & anti-gun) on this comment board and visit (civilly?) on a daily basis?
No, it is not convenient. This sucks.
They tried to ban booze with no luck and it only made the mob more powerful. They tried to ban abortion and women got them anyway with horrible results. Drugs are illegal and look around. What in the world makes you think banning guns will work? I hate stories like this-nobody wins, sounds more like a flake winged out about a basketball game anyway.
What makes you think people who want more gun control are simply trying to ban guns.
"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed. "
"I don't believe gun owners have rights."
"We must get rid of all the guns."
--Sarah Brady of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Just a note for the 2nd Amendment bashers: During the US government's inept and patently criminal "gunwalking" operations, the latest of which was "Operation Fast and Furious", over two thousand (2000) weapons were allowed to "walk" across the border into Mexico. Less than one third (1/3) have been accounted for to this date, and very little has been done to those who are responsible. Hundreds of Mexican citizens have died, and we really don't know when or if one of the illegal weapons will show up in the hands of a criminal who might put a round through your kid's head in a drive-by shooting.
The past two POTUS' are responsible, because this nitwit scheme happened on their watches. Where's the outrage? Where's the demand for accountability? Where are the prosecutions and the prison sentences?
This is the problem in a nutshell. We don't hold those who break the law accountable, and whether it is a citizen who abuses the 2nd Amendment, or a government official who allows a law to be broken, they need to suffer the consequences of their actions. If we don't collectively demand this, we have no one to blame but ourselves when bad things happen.
Hey there, anti-gun fanatics, I figure I'll do you a favor and end your inane ramblings once and for all with a dose of reality chock full of truth:
Society in the US does not function optimally right now. We are allowed to legally own and carry firearms to protect ourselves and others from those meaning to do us serious (fatal) injury. In a world where nobody meant that kind of injury to anyone else, where we were all articulate and able to "use our words" instead of lashing out, guns would not be necessary. Nobody would want them, because they would have no practical value. Who needs instruments of war in a world of peace, right? Well, here's a reality pill: That's not the case! So in my opinion, if you are responsible enough to purchase, and learn to handle a firearm, then by all means do so if it makes you feel better, and so if you're ever in a situation where someone is committing a crime against you or someone else, you're in a position to put a stop to it. That's what justice is all about. It's not guns that kill, it's ignorance, and I'm seeing plenty of that on BOTH sides of the argument, so how about you hone the one weapon against injustice that everyone is given at birth, your BRAIN!