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.
BINGO!
We are raising children to be good little lemmings and do EVERYTHING that authority tells them to do. Raise em to be scared at everything and you can control them for the rest of their lives!
While Mike Brown's "stepdad" (never even married to Brown's mother) is ignored for inciting a crowd with "burn this mofo down", the crowd subsequently doing just that.
Of course in Hicks' case, the real crime was inducing yellow stains in the panties of pathetic moron bureaucrats.
We’ve come a long way baby
Satan has been trying to kill American Christianity for a long time and the working from inside tactic has become modus operandi
... and we are not ignorant of his devices
Had it been a pic of an abortion, the teacher would have put it on the bulletin board with a gold star.
It would be fun to mandate that gun safety be required for a high school diploma. Not because I think the govt needs more mandates, but it would be fun to see the libs implode when they have to teach about guns.
That, I believe, is the ultimate goal here. . .
See my Post 30.
Think we are on to something.
Critical Legal Studies is the required law school course that teaches how o use the law to destroy the society.
It will never get fixed.It will get worse. All people who actually care about their children are home schooling them or, if more affluent, have them in parochial or private schools.
Unless there was a threat attached to the picture of the gun none of the rest of this is relevant to anything at all.
“Maybe 16-year-old Corleaunce has a felony record already, and the middle-school student is a member of a rival gang.”
Given that name, I’d be surprised if he doesn’t.
I most definitely agree given that some of the Democratic agenda took 60-70 years to implement. Namely Obamacare.
Liberals always take both a short term and long-term approach to a problem.
If they can achieve their goal in the short-term that’s good,
but if not, they are content to keep chipping away at what they want for years or even decades if necessary.
“Inducing panic,” a felony?
Sounds like a “general intent” offense, but shouldn’t be.
That said, can we encourage obama to take a trip to this town?
The police are clearly complicit in the abandonment of common sense. Their response serves as undue encouragement to the imbeciles in the school. Where have the adults all gone?
The K-9 dogs were too afraid of Moo’s lunches to do a sweep of the cafeteria.
You would be correct sir.
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