School Locked Down After Gun Spotted

The KCRA Channel ^ | 9:10 AM PST January 29, 2004 | Suzanne Phan

[Oztrich Boy]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Sacramento school was put into lockdown mode Wednesday after a teacher spotted a student with a gun, according to authorities.

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Students at Hiram Johnson High School were held inside classrooms for more than an hour Wednesday afternoon after a teacher reported seeing a male student holding a gun while standing over a female student, officials said.

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The teacher who said she spotted the weapon is a retired Stockton police officer. She said she is certain she saw a gun.

The male student was charged with having a gun on school property.

[Oztrich Boy]

All because a teacher imagined she saw a gun.

The kid's probably lucky she's still not a cop. "Teen killed for holding wallet"

[cyborg]

Yes there's something not right about this story. First of all, what about the female student? Certainly they could have asked her. Weird.

[Oztrich Boy]

: Yes there's something not right about this story. First of all, what about the female student? Certainly they could have asked her. Weird.

It gets weirder. There's a later report Police Search Hiram Johnson High School After Gun Reported

At about 12:50 p.m., a teacher reported spotting a boy leaning over his girlfriend, who was lying on the ground. The teacher believed the boy was holding a gun, but it was not clear whether he was using it in a threatening manner.
Questioned by police, the boy and girl denied that a gun was displayed.
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Police placed the boy under arrest, but it was not clear what charges he will face.

Well. for starters, there's ....
(No I got nothing)

[cyborg]

:yawn: I love the stories coming out of public schools these days

[TYVets]

This teacher is a reason that only criminals should have guns. (sarcasm\/)

[claudiustg]

---At about 12:50 p.m., a teacher reported spotting a boy leaning over his girlfriend, who was lying on the ground. The teacher believed the boy was holding a gun---

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for fighting
This is for fun

[BykrBayb]

Lawsuit. Against the school and the teacher.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Zero-tolerence means not having to think, just react from the amphibian part of the brain. See: "sheeple"

[ExSoldier]

What a bunch of wusses. YESTERDAY we had a TEACHER threatened by a kid with a gun in his car and another "gangsta gun" was discovered in the hallway on it's way out of school in the pocket of a kid. An alert teacher spotted it and quietly alerted the school police who grabbed the punk. Gun stuff happens EVERYDAY at my school. The general feeling of fatalism is that a teacher or kid may well get capped in a brewing war between the Haitian gangs who are greater in numbers and the Jamaican gangs who are better armed and more violent. It'll be some soft liberal that gets it in the head. Not me and none of my buddies including the recently retired airborne ranger. From chatting with some of my kids the "word" is apparently out on us. LOL The kids are saying that not only are the other faculty members (wussy liberals, all of 'em) scared of us, but the kids are sayin': "Stay away from them ARMY dudes...they'll rip out your lungs for lunch!" Whether or not the assessment is true since it's been a long time since I was on active duty, it nevertheless makes us a little safer, I think. It also helps that the first year the ranger was teaching he took out five gangbangers who were involved in a hallway brawl. Laid all of 'em out cold, unconscious. Nobody ever said a word against him, either officially or unofficially.