It could have been even more dangerous.
It could have been a marshmallow shooter.
These stories never end.
The Columbus Dispatch– March 3, 2006
A 14-year-old middle school student has been charged with delinquency counts of inducing panic and disorderly conduct for bringing a squirt gun to school this week.
Muskingum County Juvenile Court officials have not set a court date yet for Deondre Crosby, who was suspended for 10 days after school officials and police found a black squirt gun in his locker on Monday. He was charged yesterday.
The boy’s mother has said he forgot he had the squirt gun in his coat pocket and put the toy in his locker. She said the incident has been blown out of proportion and that police shouldn’t have been called to investigate.
The Zanesville district has a zero tolerance policy for guns in schools and locked down the middle school after another student reported seeing what looked like a gun being put in Crosby’s locker, authorities said.
A more extensive report can be found here.
Related Link: Marshmallow Shooter
We live in a society of cowards.
Its pity that we, govt, law and most importantly media care more about stupid useless stuff than the real problems we have.
Did it look like a real gun? If it did, the school was 100% right in how it handled the incident. Also the kid was lucky he didn’t get shot. Responding police would not take the chance if the gun was fake or not, if it looks real, they act accordingly.
The kid was questioned in the principal’s office and told them it was a SQUIRT gun. No need to lock down the school. Just cut the lock off of the locker and verify that it is a toy. I agree with the mom: “He’s not the one that induced the panic,” the mother said. “The school induced the panic when they locked the school down even after they knew the gun was a toy.”
Meanwhile the school principal states:
“We have a great school and a lot of good students who work hard each and everyday,” Richards said.
Too bad the school administration leaves much to be desired.
You can have all the security you want…
But at what cost to freedom.
Lock everyone in their HOMEs and cut off the gas so they dont blow themselves up.
Turn off the electricity so they dont electrocutr themselves.
Turn off the water so they dont drown, or slip in the tub.
Block all the windows so you dont strain their eyes.
Preprocess ALL the food so they wont poison themselves, and take all the nutriants with it.
No power=no TV,computer,lights, consoles…
Put me in a coma, and call me a ROCK.
And while this nonsense goes on, our schools graduate kids who fall farther and farther behind in international rankings. I hope the teachers’ unions are proud of their work, as they fight for their job security at the expense of children’s education.
RonD
You said exactly what I had written. Just slightly different words. Man you are right on, and first to say it.
Did it look like a real gun? If it did, the school was 100% right in how it handled the incident. Also the kid was lucky he didn’t get shot. Responding police would not take the chance if the gun was fake or not, if it looks real, they act accordingly.
Comment by gquaglia — 3/12/2006 @ 1:42 pm
How about reading the article before getting your shorts in a knot. The Principal KNEW it was a squirt gun BEFORE they opened the locker. You are correct that he is lucky the Police didn’t shoot. Even though they were called AFTER the gun was in the Principals’ hands. The School might have charged him with accessory after the police shot the Principal for holding the squirt gun.
I just wonder what kind of mind can find any justification for what the School did. There is no excuse.
Mike
It was the School, not the teachers, who raised the ruckus. Blame the management here.
“We live in a society of cowards.”
No surprise. Guns are a cowards weapon.
Its Zanesville, they just heard of the airplane.
Just north of my home town Cincinnati.
Mr Fusion,
Do you really think that a majority of these asinine school policies don’t exist either with the support of or at the insistence of the unions?
At least the gun wasn’t made of suger so they can’t charged him with a felony.
My how times change. When I was in school in Alaska kids used to bring their 30-06 rifles to class for show&tell. And everyone would take their hunting rifles on Alaska Air flights (in the cabin) when going on hunting trips. No one ever got shot, and no one panicked, it was no big deal. As a kid I even got invited up into the cockpit by the pilots (in the middle of the flight). Now thanks to a few kids with non-involved parents and some dillusioned razor-blade wielding zealouts from the middle east my children will never get to do those things. Sad how we all lower ourselves to deal with the lowest common denominator. How low are we willing to let others make us go? How much more freedom are we going to give up in the name of “security”? I personally think we’ve gone too far already. The world is dangerous, we need to learn to accept that.
Mike
Do you really think that a majority of these asinine school policies don’t exist either with the support of or at the insistence of the unions?
Yes. I have not met the teacher who favored many of today’s restrictions that wasn’t already a bad teacher. These policies are put in place by the School Boards and Superintendents. The Teacher’s union has no say into school policies. The cowards that want to run gestapo camps for the kids all have the teachers shaking their heads. The kids are not learning in this environment.
I think you are just union bashing. Possibly because the unions might have a little more intelligence then those ruling the roost now. Remember Dover Pennslyvania, where the School Board wanted to put Unintelligent Design into the classroom? That wasn’t the teachers or their union. How about Kansas, where the State School Board wants to also put Unintelligent Design into the classrooms? These and many other jurisdictions with similar absurd policies are being resisted by the teachers.
Or another way to say it Wayne is that Civil Liberties should exist regardless of government, whereas Civil Rights are artificial rights created by government by taking away some of the people’s liberties.
e.g., the civil right to not be discriminated against is created by taking way people’s liberty to freely choose who they associate with.