Wouldn’t happen with all the extremist libtard students in Princeton, NJ; they’d have hung him already. (I lived just north in Hillsborough, for 17yrs)
We used to go hunting all the time. One year we drove into school with a woodchuck tied to the roof of our car. That was all we shot. There were six rifles in the car. Nobody but the woodchuck was in danger.
They should by fired.
The American way to deal with this is to purge - at the ballot box - the elected officials in charge of the school district.
But his and his classmates respect for authority will suffer. Perhaps that is an intended consequence of zero tolerance.
One thing about all this: when he remembered the shotgun, why not just plead illness and go home?
Or if he remembered when he first got there, turn around and go home!
Being “late” for class is still just a slap on the wrist.
Born in 1917, my mother rode a horse to school in Medina, Ohio. She said it was normal that boys road in with a rifle in their saddle holster. The guns sat outside with the horses all day while the boys were in school. The boys would then hunt dinner on their ride home.
Boys and men are being kept at a lower maturity by our new social masters. In the Civil War boys as young as six went into battle or became breadwinners for the family while dad fought.
We have this in us, yet people are children by law up to 26; the age where your parents can finally stop paying your insurance. What have we become? Where will it end?
I was a High School shooter, fired thousands of rounds in the school. Because that’s where the range was.
Lesson learned: Everything you say can and will be used against you.
Self-reporting an non-crime (no intent) is not the “right thing” to do. Leave. Drive home, secure shotgun, return to school. Say you have nothing to add if asked why.
You do have an absolute right not to incriminate yourself.