Students Shot at University as Landmark Second Amendment Case Unfolds

Reuters
February 14, 2008

At least 17 shot in Illinois university class

A man opened fire with a shotgun in a crowded lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, wounding at least 17 people before killing himself, authorities said.

Witnesses said terrified students, some of them bleeding profusely from neck and other wounds after being hit by buckshot, fled the classroom after the gunman began shooting seemingly at random from near the front of the room.

“Some girl got hit in the eye, a guy got hit in the leg,” George Gaynor, a student who was in the hall told the Northern Star, the student newspaper on the campus.

He said “a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on” began shooting about five minutes before a class on ocean science was to have ended. Another witness said the man suddenly appeared at the front of the auditorium carrying a shotgun and perhaps another weapon and began firing into the audience and at the teacher.

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SAF Files Amicus Brief in D.C. Gun Ban Case Before Supreme Court

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PR Newswire
February 12, 2008

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed an amicus curiae brief in District of Columbia v Heller, the appeal of the landmark case that overturned the district’s handgun ban on the grounds that it unconstitutionally violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Written by attorney Nelson Lund at the George Mason University School of Law, the brief has already earned praise of veteran Second Amendment authority David Kopel, who noted in remarks on a popular Second Amendment website, “If you want to read a model Supreme Court brief, this is the brief to read.”

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This article was posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 5:19 pm

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