School bus hit by bullet inches above driver's head
ST. PAUL, Ore. - A bullet hit the driver's side windshield of a school bus less than a foot above the driver's head on Wednesday afternoon, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.
Investigators believe the shot was accidental.
The St. Paul School District bus was westbound on St. Paul Highway at about 1 p.m. when the driver heard the impact.
The bullet hit the windshield about 10 inches above the driver's head but did not penetrate the glass. The impact left a spider-web like crack in the windshield.
There were two elementary school age children on the bus at the time. Neither the children nor the bus driver was injured.
Sr. Deputy David Wagner inspected the damage to the bus.
Wagner determined that the bus was struck in a very open, flat area, but the driver saw no one in the area. Given that it was a single shot, Wagner suspects the incident was non-intentional. It more likely came from someone shooting a firearm in the fields surrounding the area where the incident occurred.
Wagner was unable to identify the caliber of the projectile, but he suspects it was a 22 caliber or a pellet from a pellet gun.
Anyone with information about this incident can call the Marion County Sheriff's Office at (503) 588-5032 or email Deputy Wagner at Dwagner@co.marion.or.us
So no bullet was recovered, how do we know it wasn't a rock, road debris or something flying out the back of the bed of a pickup? .22 caliber bullets will travel (maybe) 800 yards and anything after 500 has very little energy in it. Pellet guns are lucky to get 100 yards and wouldn't even have enough energy, at that distance, to break skin. Wake up people not everything can be blamed on firearms.
OKAY, so we don't KNOW it was a bullet, its just dramatic speculation.Â
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NICE STORY... what a joke.Â
I know it is probably my imagination, but it seems to me that lately there has been an increasing number of news stories published both locally and nationally about the misuse, abuse, and downright illegal use of firearms. Is there some kind of conspiracy? Is some large and influential entity with unlimited resources acting behind the scenes to influence public opinion against gun ownership? Are news sources and news aggregators simply jumping on the gun-bashing bandwagon? I don't mean to sound like some nut case alarmist or conspiracy theorist, but every time I read the news I sense another nail being pounded in the coffin of my gun rights. Even as a gun owner and NRA member, I sometimes think that the pro-gun association's positions sound extreme, but maybe that is just a reflection of the powerful forces that they are up against.
Your suspicion is actually quite correct. In fact, only 6 mega-corporations now own 90% of all the media in this country. If you take the time to research who is who, each of their respective owners and companies' history, you will see a clear pattern of interlocking policy groups, think tanks, and private meeting organizations that openly discuss how to manage society and government policy. This information is out there for anyone to easily discover for themselves. Groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group all have websites open to the public, and you can see their openly stated agenda, but it seems many still fear being labeled a conspiracy theorist for even looking up the info and learning something new.
@Libertarian Revolution: I believe that fear is well founded. Those in power often try to discredit critics first by characterizing them as conspiracy crackpots.
 @mackenzie0158 No, the NRA hasn't changed its positions at all; it's just that the recent mass shootings have shone a spotlight on them, and now more people are paying attention.  The NRA leadership no longer represents the opinions of their own membership regarding specific gun regulations.  See here for percentages:  http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/media-center/pr006-12.shtml
@Baldr Odinson: Thanks for the information. As you may know it is very easy for pollsters to influence the outcome of a poll. They typically decide what outcome they want, and then they phrase the poll questions in a way most likely to get the desired answer. That makes this poll significant because the pollster was GOP pollster Frank Luntz. GOP members usually tend to support the NRA and gun ownership. One would expect that to be reflected in a GOP poll. The NRA leadership seems to have a private agenda, which no doubt includes keeping their jobs.
Bullet-proof glass would be appropriate.
 @Robbie Rainbow Where is Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac when you need it?
 @Robbie Rainbow It's sad that bullet-proofing school buses doesn't seem like such a paranoid idea anymore.  This is at least the fourth case in just the last couple weeks that I've heard of where shootings occurred on or at school buses.
There is a bullet proof school pack in the works. Â Better safe than sorry until we can disarm this violent nation.
Quick, arm the school buses.
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NOPE, we just need to ban school buses.Â
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Lets review. Â I suggested we ban butter knives, cheeseburgers and now school buses.Â
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Just a side note, I DON"T want my (loosely claimed) government protecting me from everything. Â What a TOTAL disaster that would be.Â