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Yet another shooting in Colorado. This one in a high school.

Courtesy of the LA Times:

A student at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., opened fire at the school, then killed himself, officials said Friday.

At a televised news conference, County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the student entered the building armed with a shotgun looking for a specific teacher. At least one student was injured in the shooting, he said. Hospital officials reported one student in critical condition.

A second student sustained minor injuries, but authorities were unsure if it was related to the shooting.

The latest attack comes as the nation prepared to commemorate the first anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children were killed by lone gunman Adam Lanza. Six adult educators also died in that shooting before Lanza committed suicide.

Centennial is roughly 15 miles south of downtown Denver and less than 10 miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, the scene of a shooting rampage in 1999, when two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher.

This school is also within fifteen miles of Aurora which is where James Eagan Holmes killed 20 moviegoers and wounded 70 more.

For whatever reason Colorado has been the location for a number of America's horrific gun murders, and yet after the Sandy Hook shootings, when two Colorado lawmakers voted for stricter gun laws to protect their constituents, they lost their jobs.

I wonder if this will be enough to get Colorado to stand up against the NRA and finally do something for their community to protect them against gun wielding lunatics?

And what about the rest of the country in general? Have we finally had enough?

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