<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Perhaps, instead of investing in education, we should be investing in body bags.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of CNN AT:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/oregon-college-shooting/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/oregon-college-shooting/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--twitter" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="twembed" class="el-embed-twitter" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 3.875rem; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.06452; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Oregon shooting: Initial reports of 10 dead at Umpqua Community College</h1><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Preliminary information indicates 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured in a shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday, said Oregon State Police spokesman Bill Fugate.</span></p></div><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Douglas County Commissioner Chris Boice told CNN that the shooter is in custody. It was not immediately clear whether the shooter was injured.</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms. Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralized," Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler told CNN. </span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said that two patients died while being transported to a hospital. </span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ATF agents were also on the scene and canine teams are en route to search for explosives, fire arms casings and ammunition, a spokesman said.</span></p><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Preliminary information indicates 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured in a shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday, said Oregon State Police spokesman Bill Fugate.</span></p></div><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Douglas County Commissioner Chris Boice told CNN that the shooter is in custody. It was not immediately clear whether the shooter was injured.</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms. Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralized," Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler told CNN. </span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said that two patients died while being transported to a hospital. </span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ATF agents were also on the scene and canine teams are en route to search for explosives, fire arms casings and ammunition, a spokesman said</span></p></div><div id="twembed" class="el-embed-twitter" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earlier, authorities told had said they were responding to reports of an active shooter at the Roseburg college campus.</span></div></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-9 cn-zoneAdContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"></ul><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Roseburg is a city of about 22,000 people located about 70 miles south of Eugene, Oregon, and some 180 miles south of Portland.</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The school itself is up on a hill outside the city center, according to Rick Francona, a CNN military analyst who lives nearby. Francona said that logging is a big industry in the region, which is fairly rural but easily accessible from Interstate 5.</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This is so out of character for this whole area," he said.</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A picturesque campus in the North Umpqua River Valley, the school prides itself on a "a peaceful, safe atmosphere, and year-round recreational activities," according to its website.</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's not a traditional institution of higher learning, as the average age of its 13,600 students was 38 during the 2013-2014 school year. Only 740 of those were full time, 2,437 were part time and more than 10,000 fell under the umbrella of "community education."</span></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It first began teaching classes out of rented facilities in 1961. Elton and Ruth Jackson donated 98.5 acres to house the campus in 1965.</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>