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Rifle jammed after first shot, police say
Molly Flowers, 12, a sixth-grader, said she also was eating breakfast when the school was locked down. “We all thought it was a drill until they started shutting the blinds and locking the doors,” Flowers said. Joplin schools Superintendent Jim Simpson said it appeared as if the attack had been planned for some time, and that police were investigating whether others might be involved. He said the district has a plan in place for potential incidents, and that the plan worked. “It was close,” Simpson said. There were 21 weapons incidents reported in Joplin schools in 2005, three times the state average. Unlike Monday’s incident, most of those involved knives and martial arts weapons and not firearms, according to Joplin Superintendent Jim Simpson. In three previous years, the number of weapons incidents reported in Joplin was at or below the state average, according to statistics reported by public schools and compiled by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Statewide, there were 815 incidents involving weapons in 2005, according to DESE. That is a ratio of .10 per every 100 students; in Joplin, the ratio was .30 per every 100 students, according to data reported in October of 2005. A weapons is defined as any device or instrument capable of causing serious bodily injury. It does not include a knife with a blade of less than 2.5 inches. For more on this story return to www.joplinglobe.com throughout the afternoon. 
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