The shotgun used Thursday by the alleged Silver Rail Elementary School attacker was given to him by his mother as a birthday present.
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Me entristece ver cómo las protestas en Francia, que comenzaron con estudiantes reclamando más profesores y recursos para la educación pública, han terminado siendo noticia por los incendios y los destrozos. El incendio del Ayuntamiento de Limoges es injustificable, pero me indigna que una minoría radical haya conseguido desviar la atención de unas reivindicaciones que merecen ser escuchadas. Lo que empezó como una movilización por las condiciones educativas se ha convertido en un debate sobre violencia. Mientras tanto, los problemas que denuncian los estudiantes siguen ahí. Es una pena que quienes salieron a la calle para defender su futuro hayan acabado perdiendo el protagonismo frente a quienes recurrieron a la agresividad. Los disturbios no deberían hacernos olvidar que detrás de estas movilizaciones hay jóvenes que reclaman algo tan básico como una formación de calidad.
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New details emerge about Kaylub Giamanco, who went on to elementary school campus and shot Bend suspect dead
New details are emerging about the parent who fatally shot the 16-year-old shooter who killed three children and a teacher in Oregon last week.
In a 2018 Facebook post, Kaylub Giamanco, the 36-year-old carpenter who shot and killed the shooter, said he had gone through “military shooting drills” with veterans who fought in Iraq.
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Last week, not only did Oregon's restrictive gun laws fail to stop a shooter intent on killing innocent people, but a passing good Samaritan had to violate those laws to end the murder spree. Fortunately, authorities don't appear intent on prosecuting Kaylub Giamanco, father to two girls who attend the school, for ignoring the ban on guns on school grounds to save lives. But the law is clearly more of a threat to people with good intent than it is to those bent on doing harm. Such laws should and must be defied, but lawmakers need to remove these legal minefields before they do more damage.
"I want to start by thanking and praising the quick thinking and courage of the Silver Rail Elementary School staff and parents—and the first responders who rushed to the scene," Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek commented in a press release after the attack by a 16-year-old shooter at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. "And to the community member who heroically intervened to stop further loss of life, your actions carry a heavy emotional burden—and my thoughts are with you."
That community member was Kaylub Giamanco, who had two daughters at the school. He was reportedly driving past when he saw the shooter approaching Silver Rail with a shotgun in hand. Giamanco parked his vehicle, grabbed his firearm, and followed the shooter, who had blasted his way through the facility's locked doors.
The shooter murdered four people, but Giamanco was able to kill him before he did any more damage. In the incident, the murderer obviously violated the law. But so did Giamanco.
"Oregon gun laws are rated as the 12th strictest in the nation according to data collected by gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety, but they didn't stop the shooting of four elementary school children and two teachers at a Bend elementary school on Thursday," wrote Lillian Mongeau Hughes of The Oregonian. (Reports say three children and a teacher were murdered, with two others injured.)
The gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety boasts that "Oregon has passed a broad range of gun safety laws in recent years, including a requirement that guns be securely stored whenever they are not in their owner's immediate control, a prohibition on guns at the state capitol, and a law that gives universities the authority to prohibit guns on their grounds."
The similarly restriction-oriented Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gives Oregon an A- for its laws, ranking the state 11th out of 50. The group notes that the state "allowed local governments to limit firearms in government buildings."
Of specific interest in this case, the state adopted a law in 2021 that, among other things, says "the governing board of a community college or a district school board" may adopt policies banning guns on school grounds, even for those "licensed to carry a concealed handgun."
Importantly, the Bend–La Pine Schools, which include Silver Rail, mandate that "no person on grounds of the schools controlled by the Board of Directors for Bend–La Pine Schools (including in school buildings) shall bring to, possess, conceal or use a weapon or firearm at any property under the jurisdiction of Bend-La Pine Schools, any activities under the jurisdiction of the district, or any interscholastic activities administered by a voluntary organization (i.e., Oregon School Activities Association). This prohibition includes those who may otherwise be permitted by law to carry such weapons or firearms."
The prohibition applies to the Silver Rail murderer, though it was unlikely to be a concern to a person already intent on slaughter. It also applies to Giamanco, who stopped the attack and who must now—probably successfully, given the case's high profile—rely on the authorities to not enforce their own laws.
Giamanco is by no means alone in taking the initiative to stop an attack. I've written in the past about Jordan Salinas and others in the Twin Falls incident, as well as Elisjsha Dicken at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana. The actions of bystanders are crucial given the evidence that would-be mass murderers must be countered with defensive force within the first 30 seconds to avoid a double-digit body count.
There were 634 active attacks in the United States between 2000 and 2025, according to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University. ALERRT defines an "active attack" as an incident in which "an individual or individuals is actively killing or attempting to kill multiple unrelated people in a public space." Of those, 374 were resolved before police arrived, with 29 concluded by civilians shooting the perpetrator and another 60 attackers otherwise subdued by civilians.
That's certainly not a full count of actions by armed citizens to defend themselves and others. The 2026 National Firearms Survey finds that "guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 2.2 million incidents per year. In most defensive incidents no shot was fired (76.3%), about half (50.8%) involved more than one assailant, and in 70.6% of incidents respondents report that the defensive use was successful, such that no crime remained to be reported to the police."
Undoubtedly, many of those incidents aren't reported to the police because people who have just averted a threat to themselves or others don't want to get entangled with a legal system that is all too often hostile to self defense. If all has ended well, why risk arrest for violating a law that would have prevented you from defending yourself or that you may not even have known about?
As The Oregonian points out, Oregon's "strong laws" didn't stop the shooting. Those laws ban murder, of course. They also specify that "guns be locked, stored in gun safes or in specialized gun rooms as a way to keep children from accessing firearms," according to the report. "Police have not said if those laws were violated." They also ban guns on the grounds of schools with restrictive policies.
The thing about criminals, though, is that they don't obey laws. That's especially true of those who plan murder sprees they don't intend to survive. The consequences the perpetrators anticipate involve death, and if that's not a deterrent, the potential prosecution of their moldering corpses holds little weight.
Unfortunately, legal peril can be a deterrent to good people who intend no harm. The threat of authoritarian laws and malicious prosecutors who enjoy state protection could convince some people to leave the means of self defense at home. Fortunately, Kaylub Giamanco wasn't one of them.
Giamanco's example at Silver Rail Elementary School is one to be emulated. If we're to protect ourselves, our children, and our neighbors, we have a right and a duty to defy laws that seek to disarm us and put us at the mercy of human predators. But we shouldn't have to suffer the threat of such laws to exercise our natural self-defense rights. Given the inability of weapons restrictions to deter crime and the harm they pose for good people, government officials need to eliminate these embarrassing restrictions and get out of our way.
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Four people, including three children aged five, eight and 11 and a teacher, were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to preliminary information from authorities. Police shot dead the 16-year-old suspected gunman, Sheila Miller, a spokesperson for the Bend Police Department, said.
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Police were first alerted at around 1 p.m. local time to a person firing shots at a car. Minutes later, emergency services began receiving multiple calls reporting an active shooting at an elementary school in the area.
Authorities initially confirmed several victims but did not provide details about their medical conditions. At least two people were taken to hospitals for emergency treatment, Miller said.
⚡️GOOD SAMARITAN with a ‘LONG GUN’ PERSONALLY KILLS the Oregon elementary school shooter
— RT (@RT_com) October 16, 2026
‘The suspect had been shot by a COMMUNITY MEMBER who had seen the suspect enter the school, pursued him into the school, and engaged him’ https://t.co/cIBxSHPop9 pic.twitter.com/xadJ6NsXEL
Silver Rail Elementary School was closed, and authorities established a designated meeting point for family members to reunite with students affected by the incident.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said she was closely monitoring the situation and praised law enforcement for its rapid response in a message posted on her official Facebook account.
The shooting comes amid a year marked by more than 350 mass shootings across the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an organization that tracks gun violence. The group defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people are killed or injured, excluding the shooter.
The incident follows a shooting on Saturday in Erie, Pennsylvania, where at least eight people, including two children, were killed after a gunman opened fire before dying by suicide, according to the press release.
I tre bambini uccisi da un ragazzo di 16 anni nella scuola elementare in Oregon, Stati Uniti, avevano 5, 8 e 11 anni. Lo ha detto la polizia di Bend, dove è avvenuto l’attacco. Secondo il capo della polizia di Bend, Mike Krantz, un passante ha visto l’adolescente entrare nella Silver Rail Elementary School intorno alle 13:00 e lo ha seguito all’interno, aprendo il fuoco e uccidendolo prima dell’arrivo degli agenti. Secondo quanto riferito dalle autorità, un bambino di 7 anni e un’altra insegnante sono rimasti feriti e sono stati trasportati in ospedale.
Una sparatoria avvenuta giovedì in una scuola elementare nello Stato dell’Oregon, nel nord-ovest degli Stati Uniti, ha provocato “diverse vittime”, ha reso noto la polizia; secondo diversi organi di informazione, tre bambini e un adulto sarebbero rimasti uccisi. La polizia ha dichiarato che l’aggressore, un sedicenne, è stato “colpito e ucciso”. Sheila Miller, portavoce del dipartimento di polizia di Bend, ha spiegato che gli agenti sono intervenuti in seguito alla segnalazione di un colpo di arma da fuoco esploso contro un’auto; pochi minuti dopo, sono giunte numerose chiamate di emergenza che riferivano della presenza di un uomo armato all’interno della scuola.
Gli agenti sono arrivati sul posto pochi minuti dopo la chiamata, giunta alle 13:00 ora locale (22:00 in Italia), e hanno ricevuto via radio la notizia che “l’aggressore era stato colpito e ucciso”. Miller ha precisato che non è ancora noto chi abbia sparato al sospettato; potrebbe essersi trattato di una persona presente sul posto. In una dichiarazione successiva, la polizia ha confermato che “tra le vittime ci sono dei bambini” e ha aggiunto che almeno due persone sono state trasportate in un ospedale locale. “Al momento non si conoscono le loro condizioni”.
Secondo quanto riferito da CNN e CBS News, che citano fonti delle forze dell’ordine, quattro persone — tre bambini e un adulto — sono rimaste uccise. La CNN ha riportato che l’aggressore sarebbe un ragazzo di 16 anni, un dettaglio che la polizia non ha ancora confermato. Miller ha riferito che la scuola elementare Silver Rail è frequentata da un numero compreso tra 400 e 450 bambini e conta oltre 40 membri del personale. Dopo la chiusura di sicurezza dell’istituto, il distretto scolastico di Bend-La Pine ha comunicato che le forze dell’ordine stanno scortando gli alunni, a bordo di autobus, verso un’altra sede dove le famiglie potranno ricongiungersi con i propri figli.
Il sovrintendente del distretto scolastico di Bend-La Pine, Steven Cook, ha dichiarato che i responsabili del distretto sono “sconvolti e addolorati per questa tragedia insensata”. “Esprimiamo il nostro più profondo cordoglio alle famiglie e a tutti coloro che sono stati colpiti da questa violenza. Non esistono parole in grado di descrivere adeguatamente il dolore che la nostra comunità sta vivendo”. In una nota, il distretto scolastico di Bend-La Pine ha comunicato che le lezioni di venerdì in tutte le scuole del distretto, così come le attività e gli eventi sportivi, sono stati annullati. La scuola elementare si trova a circa 270 chilometri a sud-est di Portland e accoglie alunni dalla scuola dell’infanzia fino alla quinta elementare.
L'articolo Usa, drammatica sparatoria in una scuola dell’Oregon: muoiono tre bimbi (5, 8 e 11 anni). L’aggressore è un 16enne, “ucciso da un passante” proviene da Affaritaliani.it.
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