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We Got This Covered
Fred Onyango

Oklahoma principal took a bullet to take down an armed former student. He’d probably do it again

Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma has just minted a new national hero. Kirk Moore, the principal of the school, recently prevented a tragedy when he tackled and disarmed a former student who was armed with two semi-automatic handguns. Aside from a gunshot wound Moore sustained to his own leg, nobody else was harmed.

Moore had no idea that Apr. 7 would be the day he saved his school from another mass shooting. For him, it was just another regular day. But, as it turns out, according to special agent Meric Mussett of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the morning could not have been more different for the would-be school shooter, Victor Lee Hawkins.

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