Jurisprudence

Silver Rail Elementary. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images

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On Thursday, a 16-year-old armed with a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun that his mother allegedly bought him for his birthday and a backpack full of ammunition opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School, in Bend, Oregon, killing three children and a teacher. A 7-year-old student and another teacher were critically injured.…