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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Quotation
At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me.
— Utah elementary school student Isabel Rios. One of Rios’ peers brought an unloaded .22 caliber pistol to school at the urging of his parents, according to an affiliate of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network.