"Boy arrested after pointing loaded gun in Hastings Middle School"

[Parity]

Last year my school was put in lock down because there was a robbery in a near by gas station and he ran through our school and put his gun on a water fountain. And this year I kid got in a fight on got his ass kicked so he brought a gun into school and got caught with it. Then this year again, a black adult of a student brought 2 handguns and 2 syameria? swords into school.

 

[Deleted member 2864]

There was a bomb threat at my school where we were then evacuated and had to stay outside of the building for a couple of hours in the cold, no bomb went off though.

That has happened two years in a row in my school, and from my teachers' stories and comments, they're really common. I only experienced the one this year because I wasn't in the Junior High at the time.

None have gone off though, and almost everybody who's threatened has gotten caught.

 

[qqwref]

The possibility of guns in school is not a pleasant one, but I think zero tolerance generally does more harm than good.

Also: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

 

[TheMachanga]

Our school was on lockdown for 3 hours because they heard gunshots at a university campus by us. It turns out a cop just fired his gun at the floor by accident when he was tying his shoes.

 

[4Chan]

In a city north of Atlanta, Georgia, called Kennesaw, people are "required" to own guns.~
I live south of Atlanta.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia#Gun_law

 

[miniGOINGS]

In a city north of Atlanta, Georgia, called Kennesaw, people are "required" to own guns.~
I live south of Atlanta.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia#Gun_law

"In the first year, home burglaries dropped from 65, to 26 in 1983, to 11 in 1984."

That is truly amazing thinking right there.

 

[Feryll]

In a city north of Atlanta, Georgia, called Kennesaw, people are "required" to own guns.~
I live south of Atlanta.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia#Gun_law

"In the first year, home burglaries dropped from 65, to 26 in 1983, to 11 in 1984."

That is truly amazing thinking right there.

Although other factors could've influenced that. Like if the town's population went down drastically after that law.

 

[Bryan]

Our school was on lockdown for 3 hours because they heard gunshots at a university campus by us. It turns out a cop just fired his gun at the floor by accident when he was tying his shoes.

Not sure I believe that. My brother does part-time police work, and their guns are specially designed to prevent accidental fire.

 

[PatrickJameson]

And that is why guns are illegal in Australia.

And the UK.

And China.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/dp...l-pot-activist-shoots-robber-20100315_6594522

http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/20/1095586/modesto-store-clerk-shoots-and.html

http://www.examiner.com/x-18149-Sel...e-clerk-shoots-violent-robber-in-self-defense

etc.

 

[bluecloe45]

this is not the right place to talk about this stuff. Go to the shooting forum

 

[iasimp1997]

Oh, how lovely our peers are...

 

[Kian]

And that is why guns are illegal in Australia.

And the UK.

Just like how making drugs illegal is why nobody does drugs.

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

whew! all those lockdown stories were entertaining, yet scary.

there was a highschool close to my house that was bomb threatened. no bomb went off (as always), and the kids were evacuated for 4 hours.

 

[TheMachanga]

Our school was on lockdown for 3 hours because they heard gunshots at a university campus by us. It turns out a cop just fired his gun at the floor by accident when he was tying his shoes.

Not sure I believe that. My brother does part-time police work, and their guns are specially designed to prevent accidental fire.

I couldn't believe it either, but that's what I heard.

 

[gpt_kibutz]

Dude that sucks... You must have been very scared.
Something similar (not totally) happened near my school the other day. There was a shooting between drug dealers and the ary the other day and two students died.

 

[qqwref]

"In the first year, home burglaries dropped from 65, to 26 in 1983, to 11 in 1984."

That is truly amazing thinking right there.

Although other factors could've influenced that. Like if the town's population went down drastically after that law.

It didn't. In fact, the proportion of home burglaries has stayed about the same since 1984, and the town is now 4 times bigger than it was then.

 

[Deleted member 4527]

oh also my friend's brother was stabbed to death in front of the high school one night it was really sad

 

[Sir E Brum]

And that is why guns are illegal in Australia.

And the UK.

Just like how making drugs illegal is why nobody does drugs.

You can't observe it as a binary scenario. You actually need to take percentage into account.

On another note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Columbine
makes some very interesting points.

 

[Tortin]

oh also my friend's brother was stabbed to death in front of the high school one night it was really sad

Was that the one with the football player last year?

 

[Edmund]

That is pretty damn scary! Did he show signs before hand of doing stuff like this?