The deputy also escorted the parent and student to their home for further follow up and investigation.
Escorted the parent from where? The school? Their workplace? Did the student bring the gun on their own or was their parent there as well? Bringing a loaded gun is a terrible idea either way, but this is some pretty confusing journalism.
Hmm. Let me think this through.
“You should lock up your guns, because otherwise your child might die”
Nah, I like my guns.
“You should lock up your guns, because otherwise you may end up paying several more dollars a month for insurance.”
Oh, shit. Better keep em secure!
Yup. Sounds about right.
Jeez, you’d think this kids parents didn’t even listen to Anti-Flag:
When I was in HS (mid to late 90s) there were plenty of students and faculty with gun racks in their trucks. Shotguns and rifles. It was the sticks, everyone hunted, the guns just lived there. No one was stupid enough to try and bring them in the school, and the idea of carrying around a handgun was insane.
I remember when the “no knives in school” rule dropped, and everyone was like “WTF, my daddy taught me to always carry a pocketknife in case you needed to help someone”
I still keep a multi-tool on my keys, and occasionally get caught out when going through private security at various places. The guards at the Army base where I work don’t care.
At least at HS, you are old enough to have a hunting license. In many states, the minimum age to own a rifle is 18. My school had a rifle target shooting team.
I knew guy in college who brought his handgun to the dorms. He was old enough to own one legally. It was illegal for a student to have one on campus. Campus security were state troopers, not rent-a-cops. I thought he was a dumbass who was going to get his gun stolen or confiscated.
Why not both?
Whereas in my high school, a student got suspended for having a box cutter in their vehicle parked in the school’s lot - which was there because they needed it to go to work after the school day.
“No Tolerance” polices are better described as “No Common Sense”.
They show a fundamental distrust of one’s subordinates and their judgement. Worse is that the rules are typically overly simplistic, because the kind of person who believes absolutes are the way to go is the one that doesn’t think about the details.
Because the school to prison pipeline needs to be disrupted? Throwing children into jail is not the solution to social problems. We have more people in prison than any other country on the planet. We need to stop treating children like criminals.
Oh I meant more along the lines of lock them up at home (in the general “because many people’s kids suck” sense), not throw them in jail. (My attempt at levity definitely fell flat here.)
Oh! Well, it happens sometime…
I think the problem is less the kids and more the parents, though. If there is a gun in the home, and the parent treats that gun as a toy, plays around with it, etc, pretty much the kid will too.
Roger that!
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