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Usually, in school shootings, the bad guys kill themselves, like it happened in Columbine.

Sgt. Scott Fray
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We have absolutely no idea what the motive is. These appear to be almost execution-style shootings. He expended a large number of rounds inside that house.

Gil Kerlikowske
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We appear to be moving in the right direction. There appears to be less and less shootings in the city and we won't stop until the final shot is fired and the individual is arrested.

Jim Letten
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This wave of shootings created a whole lot of tension, and to this date that tension has not dissipated. We hope that this goes to prosecution.

Christian Ramirez
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With all the worries about school shootings, we have a database with maps of schools and the building configurations. Imagine how useful it would be to zap that map to units responding to a school to show exits and fire hydrants.

Marianne Pasha
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Police shootings have decreased dramatically.

Robert Boone
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We have no motive, no witnesses and that's the trouble. It's unfathomable that you could have 16 shootings and no one saw it or is talking about it.

Cmdr. Kim Humphrey
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The ballistics evidence has conclusively linked the shooting yesterday in Spotsylvania County to the other shootings in Virginia, D.C. and Maryland.

Howard Smith
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I couldn't believe when the cops told me. All these shootings by the same person or people. It freaks me out. I hope they don't come back. There's no reason for it.

Timmy Tordai
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You see far fewer accidents and accidental shootings of civilians with the private security than you do with the regular military.

Doug Brooks
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

Carl Levin
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My shooting's been off the last couple games. But I'll get that back.

Jessica Ross
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We are not trying to justify shooting at demonstrators but we cannot rule out that in specific cases, such shootings are justified because there is a threat to life.

Herzl Shviro
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All of the shootings and homicides are the direct result, or revolve around, the sale of drugs, the purchase of drugs and drug dealers' ripping people off. Drug dealers are killing drug users.

Police Capt. Kim Frey
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Most school shootings, 99 percent, are over in the first two minutes. They don't know what they're really dealing with, and they don't know what to expect. They must assess each person.

Sgt. Scott Fray
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There are some additional shootings, some additional threats that have been made that we're looking into, ... Whether or not arrests will be made, I can't guarantee at this point. We believe they're responsible for many more shootings than what they've been charged with.

William Mullen
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Laws designed to control the deer population seem to have had an unintended effect on accidental shootings.

John Pepper
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Anything to get out of L.A.. You come here and it's more perfect, not too much traffic and no gangsters, no shootings — you drive further, but you live better.

Mario Sanchez
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There's some indication [the shootings] may have been gang-related.

Harold Levy
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This evening the forensic laboratory linked the projectile from the D.C. shooting to three of the shootings that occurred in Montgomery County. As a result of that, they're able to tell now that four shootings were done from the same firearm.

Michael Bouchard
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Limited us down to so many shootings per show and so many fistfights, but it didn't seem to affect the show. We kept on ticking; the producers wrote around this new set of rules.

The Others
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We still haven't been able to pinpoint these shootings to anybody.

Joe Ciccarelli
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Well, they said it was in connection with the shootings down on Capitol Hill that happened.

Regina Gray
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It's been one of the most successful safety programs on record, reducing the number of hunting related shootings. Whenever you pick up a firearm, you are picking up a responsibility.

Rod Slings
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We are an intelligence-driven police department using that data to help address the shootings in the city.

Michael Mccarthy
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The police have arrested the perpetrators behind the shootings of American nationals in 2002.

Anton Bahrul Alam
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We've played solid defense all year, but during the losing streak we just couldn't make a shot. Now we're passing a lot better and our shooting's coming around.

Chris Rohlfing
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It takes more than just police. It takes lots of community resources. Hopefully the shootings will be a wake-up call.

James Alan Fox
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We're looking to see if there are bullets, fragments, other things that may tell us if there's any connection between that shooting, shootings here in Montgomery County and the shooting in Washington.

Charles Moose
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Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Steve Morton
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Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.

Diane Abbott
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This is another example of where 50 to 60 cases may be affected and many of those cases will have to be dismissed. Some of these cases are very serious. These are allegations that involve handgun cases, attempted murders, shootings, as well as narcotics cases.

Margaret Burns
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