Posted on 03/01/2006 9:16:01 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
Why isn't this a case of illegal search and seizure?
"Another student apparently became aware that the boys had brought the rifles to school and told an assistant principal, who searched the boys’ truck and found the firearms."
I wonder if a search warrant was involved, or was this a warrantless domestic spying search?
hmmm. Due process? I don't think so.
Zero tolerane is zero intelligence.
I graduated in 1988. One the Friday before the opening weekend there were so many trucks ready to go hunting we could have held a gun show in the parking lot.
Because it's "for the children"?
no more easyrider rifle racks?
In Texas, if your kid parks on school property, you sign an agreement that they can search the vehicle at any time. My kid parked on the street.
If the kids were parked on the school parking lot at the time, the searches were probably legal. If the kids were parked on the street, the searches were probably illegal.
On the one hand, you would hope the school would know better, and that a rifle locked up out of sight in a vehicle is not the next Columbine.
On the other, you would hope the student would have the sense to realize that schools are insane, and of course they don't know better.
Public schools are prisons, and the same rules apply.
The school authorities believe two rifles in a locked box fixed to a pickup are wrong, despite the fact the owners did not intend any mischief and were of legal age to possesses the rifles.
Why, because one of the students may well grow up and become our nation's vice president.
Where is the NRA and GOA defending these guys?
That was a reeely reeely dangerous situation and mayhem and murder were just barely avoided. Those guns were just waiting for some innocent student to walk by the vehicle so they could leap up out of their resting places and shoot her. The rifles were probably awaiting an opportune time to fire through the school windows to mow down an entire English class.
huh?
I was being sarcastic.
What were you asking me?
More senseless zero-tolerance horse manure! You can thank Klebold and Harris (hope the AC's working, a$$holes!) for their little stints. I bet these boys will be found to be upstanding young men with no records of mischief and intent on helping one another to repair or clean or hunt with their rifles. The fact that they were unloaded and in a locked container indicates to me that they had no intent to shoot up the school. May I eat my socks if things are found to the contrary.
And oh yeah, thanks a LOT Clintoon for your non-sensical anti-gun laws that still plague us today.
The state has a law against firearms on school property.
It was not legal for them to have those firearms there.
I personally do not think it should be illegal to have hunting weapons locked up in a vehicle on a school parking lot.
I think it's an example of a bad law created by people who have an irrational fear or firearms instead of a rational fear of criminals.
However, the school authorities can't simply ignore that these students broke the law.
You signed up today to post a stupid question, troll?
hehehe
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