Gotta love gun access

[Topspin]

TACOMA, Wash. - A man apparently infatuated with a special education teacher he knew from college shot and killed her as she walked into her elementary school Friday, shortly before students began arriving.

The suspect was killed in a shootout with a deputy a short time later about 10 miles away, said Pierce County sheriff 's spokesman Ed Troyer.

The man had been released on bail Monday after being arrested a week ago for violating a protective order the teacher, Jennifer Paulson, obtained in September 2008, said Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum.

The victim's father, Ken Paulson, said she was kind and loving, and that's probably why she was a special education teacher. He described the 30-year-old as a devout Christian .

The father said the man who killed his daughter was Jed Waits, of Ellensburg. The two had apparently known each other since she was in college, when they worked together at a cafeteria at Seattle Pacific University .

In her petition for the anti-harassment order filed in Pierce County District Court, Paulson said she and Waits occasionally socialized with co-workers and friends outside of work as a group but "never had any sort of romantic involvement."

She said she heard from Waits about once a year since she graduated from college in 2003, but on the days she heard from him, he would sometimes call 10 to 15 times in one day.

Then in spring 2008, he showed up at her school, walked into the building and passed the office, where he was stopped by a secretary.

"I never told him where I work and do not know how he found out," Paulson wrote.

He also sent roses and a bear to her at the school. Paulson's principal called Waits' commander in the National Guard to inform him of the harassment, she wrote.

The anti-harassment order banned Waits from going within 1,000 feet of Paulson's home or school. But she saw him as she was leaving work Friday, so she called 911 from her car. Waits was arrested that night, and after he made bail, Paulson stopped staying at her home, at least temporarily, her father said.

Fulghum said there had been no indication that Waits had a weapon or had threatened Paulson with a weapon, but it "sounds like he had a pretty good infatuation with her."

The shooting happened at Birney Elementary, which has about 400 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Classes were canceled for the day, and officials had not made a decision about Monday's classes.

The shooter was waiting for the teacher when she arrived at 7:35 a.m. and shot her multiple times as she was trying to enter the school, Fulghum said.

Omar Moreno , 22, who lives across the street from the school, said he heard three gunshots.

"I heard a teacher screaming at the top of her lungs — just screaming," he said. "I looked out my window and I saw the guy. He started running down the middle of the street and got in his car."

Moreno said the man, wearing a white snow cap and white gloves, drove off in a tan car. Soon after, Moreno said, a custodian barreled out of the school screaming for someone to call the police.

Moreno said he saw the victim laying on the ground, bleeding from the mouth. It was clear to him she had died, he said.

A deputy pulled over the suspect's car in the parking lot of a daycare, and he came out firing a handgun, Troyer said. The deputy returned fire and killed the man.

"We're lucky our guy's OK. The guy did have semiautomatic and did fire a round," Troyer told KCPQ-TV.

School district spokesman Dan Voelpel said Paulson worked in the language resource center helping students one-on-one with reading problems. She had been with the district since 2004 and at the school since 2007.

Paulson's death "knocked everyone flat," Voelpel said. "It's going to hit this community hard."

The shooting occurred three days after a 32-year-old man with a history of mental illness opened fire in a middle school parking lot in Colorado , wounding two students.

[webbway]

Blame the judge that let this nutball out of jail. Probably another bleeding heart liberal

[Topspin]

Sure well say that thouands of times each year.

[SmarterThanYou]

oh my. color me shocked. another shooting in a gun free zone. I guess that guy didn't read the sign that said guns aren't allowed.

to quote archie bunker "would it make you feel better if they was pushed out of windows?"

[Topspin]

Over 10,000 idiots a year find easy access to guns for killing.

[SmarterThanYou]

Originally Posted by Topspin

Over 10,000 idiots a year find easy access to guns for killing.

and if their 10000 victims would get over their own hoplophobic tendencies and arm themselves, they just might still be alive and 10000 idiots would be dead instead. but NOOOOOO, people are 'afraid' of guns and don't want to defend themselves. So in their projection of cowardice, they seek to make the rest of us as defenseless as they feel.

[Threedee]

Its Tacoma. We're talking about the bottom of the barrel in terms of WA society. This is the city that one of the DC snipers came from. In 2003 a Tacoma police chief shot his wife and then committed suicide. Its also best known for its "Tacoma Aroma." That should tell you something.

And Topspin, we will go on loving guns while you go on loving fascism. You keep sucking the fascist cock, and remember not to choke on it.

[Topspin]

Threedork y'all love guns, I love women, money and pot. Why did the wild west salons require no guns in bars.

[WinterBorn]

In this situation, he could just as easily have killed her with a knife or a baseball bat.

The news media loves to blast these all over the nation to perpetuate a sense of fear that keeps the sheeple glued to their TV sets.

[Topspin]

Less guns equals less murders FACT.

[WinterBorn]

Originally Posted by Topspin

Less guns equals less murders FACT.

Only if you ignore all the other aspects and factors in the equation.

Less guns also equals fewer people able to defend themselves and stop or prevent murders.

Less guns also means no hunting, which causes huge ecological damages.

Less guns also has a big impact on the economy, but removing a large number of jobs.





The facts show that places in the US with strict laws preventing access to guns also have the highest crime rates.

[Threedee]

Less guns also means less freedom, which is the ONLY reason why Topspin opposes them!!

[Beefy]

Originally Posted by Threedee

Its Tacoma. We're talking about the bottom of the barrel in terms of WA society.

Nothing's below Fife.

[Threedee]

Originally Posted by Beefy

Nothing's below Fife.

Which is Tacoma area. Since Tacoma is a major WA city (#2, it just overtook Spokane in 2008), its even more sad. Fife can suck cock and no one is going to notice unless they lived there...

[Stupid Superstition]

Toppy, if less guns=less murder then more guns=more murder correct? I mean that's your assertion as to why the American murder rate is higher than the Brits or the French. So let's talk about the Swiss then, who have the highest gun ownership per person in the world. They have a significantly lower murder rate than us and even in fact Britain and France. So what's the cause of that?