Our schools, with the exception of colleges in some states, are gun-free zones. That means it’s illegal for anyone to bring a gun onto the campus, much less fire it.
Of course, shooting people who aren’t trying to hurt you has been illegal since, well, people first had guns, most likely.
None of those laws, however, managed to prevent a shooting at a Texas high school that happened earlier today.
A teenager was shot in the leg after reports of gunfire at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas prompted a large police response Tuesday afternoon, a Dallas Fire-Rescue source told WFAA.
The source said an active shooter call prompted the response, which began to unfold just after 1 p.m. at Wilmer-Hutchins, located on Langdon Road off Interstate 20 in Southeast Dallas.
By 1:45 p.m., the active threat had ended, a source told WFAA. By 2:15 p.m., the campus had been secured, according to Dallas Independent School District officials.
Crews were dispatched to the scene at 1:06 p.m., according to Dallas Fire-Rescue officials.
Dallas Independent School District officials confirmed in a statement that police were responding “to a shooting incident” at the school.
The Dallas Fire-Rescue source told WFAA that gunshots were reportedly heard inside the building, and one victim — a teen male — was shot in the leg. The source said the victim was in stable condition but no more details about his condition was immediately available.
Three people in total were transported from the scene by Dallas Fire-Rescue, the source said, but it wasn’t clear how many of those were shooting victims.
This incident comes a year after another shooting at the same high school, a fact not lost on some people.
BREAKING: Police are responding to a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas.
This comes almost one year to the day after a student was shot at the very same school. Our students are living through constant fear and violence. When will enough be enough?
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 15, 2025
Of course, we don’t know anything right now about the shooter, the motivation, where they got the gun, or anything else.
And when I say we don’t know anything about the shooter, I mean we know nothing. News reports don’t say anything at all, such as whether he’s at-large, was arrested, was later found breakdancing at the top of the Empire State Building; nothing at all.
We know that witnesses report three gunshots, a lot of people screaming, and three people were transported to the hospital, and that, thankfully, there are no fatalities. We don’t even know if anyone other than the one victim mentioned was shot or if they got injured in what was likely a stampede to get out of the line of fire.
This is a developing situation that happened a couple of hours ago, so there will likely be a lot more in the coming hours and days.
Luckily, this is not as bad as it could have been.
However, I never lose money betting on groups like Giffords trying to make a political statement before literally any facts are in. Want to know why I can get political in the immediate aftermath? They’re the reason I do.
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