University president urges more guns
WASHINGTON – The president of Liberty University urged students during the school’s convocation on Friday to get their permits to carry concealed weapons.
In his remarks, President Jerry Falwell Jr., son of the late religious right leader Jerry Falwell Sr., pressed students at the Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia, to carry weapons on campus following Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
“I’ve always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in,” he said, the rest of his sentence drowned out by loud applause.
London police say stabbing was terrorism
LONDON – A stabbing at a London Underground station is being treated as “terrorist incident,” the London police said Saturday.
The London police counterterror command said in a statement that it is investigating the incident at Leytonstone Underground station in east London in which a man was threatening people with a knife at around 7 p.m. One person suffered serious injuries and two other received minor injuries.
One person was arrested. Police said a stun gun was used.
Plane kills deer during landing in California
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – An Alaska Airlines plane struck and killed a deer while landing at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport.
Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on Saturday the deer apparently wandered into the planes’ path and was hit Wednesday.
Egan says the plane was scheduled to continue on to Los Angeles, but that flight was canceled so the aircraft could be inspected.
She says the Bombardier Q-400 turboprop was not damaged, but the tires were changed as a precaution.
Associated Press & Washington Post
