[grellis]

How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???

[NautiNurse]

they are surmising that the perp grabbed the gun from a deputy

[mhking]

How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???

Current word from WSB-TV is that the perp may have grabbed the gun from an officer inside the courtroom.

[mystery-ak]

being reported(not confirmed) that suspect took gun off a deputy's hip

[GraniteStateConservative]

One of those special guns like John Malkovich had in In the Line of Fire?

[randog]

How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???

You don't--there are plenty of armed, highly trained law enforcement personnel in courthouses to make sure it doesn't happen.

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[NCC-1701]

"...How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???..."

Probably the same way restricted items are STILL getting on airplanes

[Armedanddangerous]

Looks like the goblin took the gun from a deputy. Don't the cops there wear SECURITY HOLSTERS?

You can get them at any cop shop. Even in my rural WV county all the officers wear them.

[Popman]

Good question

I was in court yesterday downtown Tampa with my son.

The officer screening me took five minutes looking at my promise keeper key (small key with a verse on it)on my key chain but missed my small pocketknife I had mistakenly left in my pocket and put in the basket to bypass the metal detector

I could understand a small 1" knife, but a gun?

[Little Ray]

Been in Fulton County Courthouse for jury duty. Security there is largely brain-dead. They made me take the itty-bitty utility knife off my key-chain - I had to hide it on the street and hope it was still there when I came back. But they passed my large, hardback book without checking it (hollowed out, it could have easily held an automatic and spare mag or two), along with numerous umbrellas (a good bumbershoot is a weapon in and of itself!).

[traumer]

What about metal detectors ??

[My2Cents]

How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???

Disturbing, it's it. Clearly, we're not as secure as we'd like to think.

[El Gato]

How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???

If one is a deputy or other LEO. In some jurisdictions, the lawyers and judges are also allowed (Who's going to tell the judge he can't?).

Yet another example of the fallacy of "only the police and military should have guns". If the members of the jury, or jury pool, or the folks in the gallery, had been armed, we might still have a dead judge, but we'd also probably have a dead or down perp, rather than one who manged to kill two others and wound at least one more and who is still running around loose.

[RobRoy]

it's pretty easy if you are willing to shoot the sheriffs deputy on the way in.

[CBF]

Yeah, don't they know there are laws against that sort of thing.

[editor-surveyor]

"How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???"

Not really too tough if you aren't worried about getting discovered, and if you plan a shooting spree you sure as hell know that you're going to be discovered.

Angels Davis did it in San Rafael, back in 71, when George Jackson was on trial, and that was the day that Judge Halley was killed.