Teacher talks armed student into giving up by Andres Munoz

  The teacher stood in the classroom, face-to-face with his 16-year-old student, who was holding a shotgun.

Ryan Heber, 40, talked to the teen, trying to persuade him to end an armed assault in which one student had already been shot.

Heber had no idea whether the student -- whose pockets were filled with ammunition -- would put the gun down or pull the trigger.

Campus supervisor Kim Fields helped distract the teen, allowing other students in the classroom to escape, while Heber talked to him, according to CNN affiliate KGET.

Eventually, the teen let go of the gun, and police took him into custody.

These school shootings are getting more and more common. Which only raises the question; why? Why would anyone feel the need to shoot somebody else? A kid at that. Something must be going wrong in the world. Whether its the media or whatever other social scapegoat we blame it on, something needs to change.  http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/11/justice/california-school-shooting-teachers/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews