[org.whodat]

How do you know it was the same gun????? Simple you do not know.

[albie]

“How do you know it was the same gun?????”

...Gee. I guess I don’t. Must have been one of many that he owned.

[Clara Lou]

What’s your point?

In Texas, both parents and students sign documents saying that they acknowledge being informed that schools are, among other things, weapons-free zones. I’m retiring from 20 years in Texas public middle school teaching. This boy couldn’t help but know that he could not get away with what he was doing. This is going to go a long way in convincing other Texas middle- schoolers not to try the same thing.

Condolences to the parents, but perhaps they needed to teach their son a bit more about actions and consequences.

[bgill]

Superintendent Carl Montoya remembered Gonzalez as "a very positive young man. He did music. He worked well with everybody."

Interesting that the superintendent had reason to know this kid. Wonder why. Most superintendents would do good to name three students. Or he had skimmed the kid's record and saw he was in a music class. Very positive and worked well with others sounds like a report rather than knowing the kid. Very positive and worked well with everyone? Really? Punched a kid in the face and wouldn't put down the gun when his teachers, principal and police told him to.

Gonzalez Sr. said he had no idea where his son got the gun or why he brought it to school, adding: "We wouldn't give him a gift like that."

Guess he didn't see the picture of the girl friend holding the gun.

Yes, org.whodat, it does look like the same gun. That or he has a stash of several of these guns.

[Mr. Lucky]

So, how many guns do you figure the kid owned?