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The Answer Sheet - Duncan: Arizona community college did what it could with suspect

The Answer Sheet - Duncan: Arizona community college did what it could with suspect

Duncan: Arizona community college did what it could with suspect

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said today that the community college that forced out the suspect in the Arizona shooting rampage because he was disruptive did what it could in handling the young man. "If I was the chancellor of that community college, I think that would have been my response," Duncan said in an interview with Washington Post reporters and editors. " ... My question is, lots of folks have mental issues. How's he get a gun?" Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is now charged in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others. Six people, including a federal judge, a Giffords aide and a 9-year-old girl, were killed, and 14, including Giffords, were wounded. Last year, Loughner was asked to leave Pima Community College after campus police were called five times to deal with his disruptions in class and the library, the school said.