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Mom Charged After Teenage Son Brings Gun to School
ABC News ^ | October 15, 2014

Posted on 10/15/2014 1:54:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The mother of a 17-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with allowing him to take a loaded handgun to school.

Leah Wilcken, 41, faces four misdemeanor counts, each carrying a potential penalty of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, the city attorney's office said.

Prosecutors said that in May, the woman's 17-year-old son brought a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a spare magazine containing seven bullets to Will Rogers High School in Van Nuys.

"He was in a dispute with another student and had made posting on social media" calling on the student to meet him in the school parking lot, city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said.

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1 posted on 10/15/2014 1:54:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about just saving time and charging the “yute” as an adult?

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2 posted on 10/15/2014 1:59:25 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Music from “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” begins to play. Man, you could do real funny Saturday Night Live scene on that one....


3 posted on 10/15/2014 2:00:24 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Away with permissive parenting. People with out-of-control kids need to keep them away from their guns — or face the consequences. And, unlike the fools who parented the murderous Harris and Kleybold at Columbine High, they need to be aware of what weapons their kids are bringing in from the outside — or face the consequences.


4 posted on 10/15/2014 2:04:36 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; FReepers; Patriots; FRiends

Everything is verboten that was never verboten before. This a grammar school class back when our world was sane, remember?



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5 posted on 10/15/2014 2:07:48 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society)
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To: Lady Jag

I used to take my hunting rifle to school and put it in my locker (other students as well) and on the way home I would have the bus driver stop and let me off about a mile from my parents and would hunt deer the rest of the way home through the wood.

Hell I bought several fire arms with my parents giving me the money and the transaction going down in school.

This was in the mid 1970s.

Thanks libs for screwing up my country!


6 posted on 10/15/2014 2:14:42 PM PDT by Johnny_cash (10 out of 10 idiots voted for 0Bama!)
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To: Johnny_cash

We used to walk up in to the hills with our 22’s in the 70’s, right here in Granada Hills, 5 miles from this school. Funny how we didn’t really have a problem when guns were inanimate objects.


7 posted on 10/15/2014 2:19:02 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Johnny_cash

Back in the day we all had real rifles by the age of 11 and bringing them to school was normal for many reasons.

The ruling elite is inhumane.



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8 posted on 10/15/2014 2:21:01 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society)
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To: Johnny_cash
I used to take my hunting rifle to school and put it in my locker (other students as well)

My friends and I all brought our rifles to school during deer season so we could go hunting straight from class. Many of my teachers did the same thing. I remember many times comparing rifles with friends and teachers in the school parking lot.

This was in the late 1970s. All those guns at school and yet I don't remember very many school shootings occurring.

[sarchasm]
We are all so much safer now that schools are gun free zones. Those signs magically prevent anyone from bringing guns into schools now so school shootings are a thing of the past.
[/sarchasm]

9 posted on 10/15/2014 2:22:03 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Lady Jag

Well, that’s how disputes are settled these days (in the movies)


10 posted on 10/15/2014 2:22:46 PM PDT by refermech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The kid must have met someone he did not like at Will Rogers High School.


11 posted on 10/15/2014 2:23:50 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

Did any one see what happened in Harrisburg, PA the other day?

http://timesleader.com/news/news/50497869/Local-State-Rep.-Marty-Flynn-pulls-gun-on-would-be-robbers

Democrats to boot....


12 posted on 10/15/2014 2:36:43 PM PDT by Johnny_cash (10 out of 10 idiots voted for 0Bama!)
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To: refermech

We had tons of shoot-em-up shows back in the day in the movies, on TV and even on the radio. Many of our comedies were violent. People knew all that was entertainment.

We were in touch with reality. Govt has been scrubbing brains for eons and now the US is manly stupid because without control the govt would have nothing.

FReepers know govt should be afraid of the people not the other way around.


13 posted on 10/15/2014 2:42:40 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society)
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To: Lady Jag

Back in the day we watched what, about 2 hours of TV a day?
It’s a lot different now. So many movies today are about guys that take the law into their own hands.


14 posted on 10/15/2014 2:49:24 PM PDT by refermech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Guns have no place in or around our schools,” City Attorney Mike Feuer said. “After all, how can we advance our gun disarmament agenda if we allow people to exercise their constitutional rights? Next thing you know, people will object to unjust taxation.”


15 posted on 10/15/2014 2:55:58 PM PDT by majormaturity
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jeez, why not charge the student...? Did the mom knew he was going to bring a gun to school?


16 posted on 10/15/2014 3:37:25 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Johnny_cash
I used to be on the riflery team at my high school. I heard they did away with it, because SOMEONE MIGHT GET SHOT WITH A SCHOOL'S RIFLE.

Think about that...

17 posted on 10/15/2014 3:42:29 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: refermech
What TV shows we didn't get were on radio. And when finished with that we went outdoors and those who had no Gene Autry or Roy Rogers pistol, used sticks as pretend guns. And none of us got arrested for pretend wooden guns.

Three Stooges delt potentially fatal wounds but we laughed because we knew it was humor . We hever hit each other with frying pans because we knew better .

Age 10 or 11 many of us were given real rifles and we knew the difference

18 posted on 10/15/2014 3:49:11 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society)
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To: Lady Jag

Many things are different, Families with a mother and father. I miss the old days. Now we have smart phones and dumb people. I don’t think there is a way to back. Just have to soldier on and try to install good morals in our kids.


19 posted on 10/15/2014 3:56:01 PM PDT by refermech
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To: majormaturity



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20 posted on 10/15/2014 3:58:47 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society)
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