Posted on 12/20/2014 5:45:45 AM PST by marktwain
The latest apparent overreaction about guns and schools appears to be in Ohio, in Stark County, at the Marlington High School in Alliance. A high school student texted a middle school student. Attached to the message was a picture of a gun. The middle school student showed the picture to their teacher, the teacher contacted the police, and the High School was put on lockdown. From wkyc.com:
Officers and deputies located the suspect while maintaining a safety perimeter around the school.There is usually more to these headline grabbing lockdowns than meets the first glance. It hardly seems appropriate or prudent to lockdown a school simply because a student texted a picture of a gun. Was the gun shown in the classroom? Was a threat made to kill fellow students?
Corleaunce S. Hicks 16 , of Alliance, was charged with inducing panic, a third-degree felony.
"I wouldn't go as far as to say it was a threat, but it was a concerning statement," Stark County Sheriff George T. Maier said of the message accompanying the gun image.Fortunately, the lockdown lasted less than an hour and a half. About like a fire drill when I was in high school. I would have to see the message in question, but a felony charge for a message that was "concerning" seems rather severe.
Maier said they found no weapons at Marlington High School. Deputies conducted interviews and locker searches while a Canton Police Department K-9 officer swept the school for weapons.
Investigators have determined that Hicks does not own a gun.
The gun in the image, Maier said, belongs to an acquaintance of Hicks.
seems a bit excessive, but then again the child involved might not be playing with a full deck.
Remember when this would have just been considered a prank, possibly worthy of a paddling, but nothing more severe?
Where have those days gone?
Maybe 16-year-old Corleaunce has a felony record already, and the middle-school student is a member of a rival gang.
“a felony charge”
They have succeeded in criminalizing the thought of a gun.
Whoever called the cops is the one who deserves the charge of inciting panic.
They left as we got the Department of Education, the NEA, federal school standards, and the litigation revolution that was engineered by “progressive” lawyers.
charged with inducing panic, a third-degree felony.
The Teacher and EVERY COP there should be charged with the same. THEY created the Panic, not the student.
And to think my high skrool shop class project (~1978) was re-stocking a Mossberg 20ga bolt action shotgun.
That and the fact there were probably 25 shotguns out in vehicles during hunting season.
Those were safer and much freer days.
How could I have forgotten that?
how silly of me. Thanks for the reminder.
this crap is going to take a generation to fix, IMO.
One of those Mossbergs was the first gun I ever bought. I paid $10 for it. It had a broken stock and the safety did not work. It was my first “farm boy” gunsmithing project. I think I was 15 or 16. Paid cash, private transaction, perfectly legal, no one thought anything of it.
It shot well, but not very fast on the reload.
“this crap is going to take a generation to fix, IMO.”
You are correct. That is if we are lucky.
I pray for my country.
The teacher should have been arrested and charged with inducing the panic; a third-degree felony!
The news story emphasizes the (undisclosed) text accompanying the picture of the gun.
To no surprise nowadays, the new story failed to specify what type of gun was in the picture, whether it was a real gun or a toy gun, whether ammunition was present with the gun (if real), and whether the gun, which allegedly belonged to an acquaintance of the 16-year-old Hicks, was in Hick’s possession when the picture was taken.
Also not discussed in the news report, again to no surprise nowadays, is whether Corleaunce (do we need to ask?) has had previous interactions with law enforcement.
" A high school student texted a middle school student.
Attached to the message was a picture of a gun.
The middle school student showed the picture to their teacher,
the teacher contacted the police,
and the High School was put on lockdown"
A high school student texting a middle school student is two different worlds contacting each other unless there is a relationship ... good friends, brothers/sisters .. etc
What's the text ? ... "THIS is what I want for Christmas ... pretty neat, Huh ?"
The middle school student showed THEIR teacher ??!!??!!
(The writer is obviously a graduate of this high school)
Teacher to cop to shut down
We had a somewhat simular event in our high school a couple of months ago ... a teacher had a Swiss Army knife hooked on his belt, a student saw it and told the teacher, who told the principal who fired the teacher.
Who ARE these brown shirt kids anyway ?
Sure there are laws and cops trained to enforce them and teachers trained to respond and principals scared to death of a law suit or something .... but these rat kids are the problem
Who teaches them this crap and why are these kids eating this shit up ?
Find out where the kid's indoctrination comes from and THERE is where our problem is.
GarownTELLya' it's an embed of some sort
BTW ... I was taught to differentiate between principle and principal was to think of your principal is your pal .... not anymore, I guess.
I went to an all male Catholic High School and after class, a few of us students, that were also hunters, would hunt small game in the a-joining fields, with our teachers {Priests and Brothers}.
The Nuns taught at an all female HS.
Sexists all, but it worked for decades.
Given the example you used:
it is almost as if the gov’t is conditioning a generation of snitches to turn in anyone who does anything the gov’t doesn’t like.
that is truly scary.
School “zero tolerance” is perversely tied to all sorts of leftist agenda items, particularly gun control. And while gun liberty has been blossoming elsewhere, public schools remain a bastion of anti-gun propaganda, forced on children under threat of law.
Even in politically conservative districts around the US, teachers and administrators freak out in a lockstep manner and have students *arrested* for any innocuous reference to guns.
It is past time to crack down on this authoritarian inanity, which has the worst elements of the 1950s efforts to ban rock and roll music and EC comics, by equally breathless, neurotic people. At least then the adults had enough intestinal fortitude to not go screeching in a panic to the police, to demand that elementary school children must be arrested, booked, and frightened half to death.
A picture of a gun incited “panic” in the wimpy teacher and in the overreacting police? Just how far his this country fallen? The teacher and the police need to grow a pair. That it was a digital picture even further shows their mental weakness. Has logic left this society?
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