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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. . .
“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 K-9 dogs were too afraid of Moo’s lunches to do a sweep of the cafeteria.
