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Sheriff’s Department Rushes In School, Firing Blanks At Teachers To Test School’s Readiness
constitution school ^ | May 2, 2013 | constitution school

Posted on 05/02/2013 9:20:00 PM PDT by yldstrk

Teachers in rural Oregon are stunned after the local Sheriff’s Department attempted to test their school’s emergency readiness by sending two masked gunmen into the Pine Eagle Charter School, wearing hoodies and wielding handguns.

The event, which took place last Friday during a staff meeting of teachers, was part of a surprise drill conducted by the Sheriff’s Department, aimed at testing “Pine Eagle’s preparation for an assault by ‘active shooters,’ who were in reality volunteer staff members of the school.”

The volunteers fired blanks at everyone in the room, “killing” all but two of the teachers.

According to local media, the school’s principal stated, “it became clear very quickly just how many of the school’s fifteen teachers would have survived. The answer: Not many.”

The armed volunteers did not fear any threat of being shot by onlookers, who mistook them for being real shooters, due to the fact that the school is a gun-free zone and everyone in the room was unarmed.

The apparent goal of the drill was to demonstrate how defenseless individuals inside a school are, during such a situation.

(Excerpt) Read more at constitutionschool.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; drill; guncontrol; gunfreezone; guns; secondamendment
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This has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.


21 posted on 05/02/2013 10:30:54 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: yldstrk

At work today (Public elementary school) I posed this scenario to a teacher and the principal, asking how they would react if someone did this. Then I informed them it actually happened in Oregon. My principal was incensed at the stupidity. Aside from the physical danger of the faux shooting (someone becoming injured in the melee, or a teacher just happen to be armed, and shooting back in self-defense) what if one of the staff members had a heart condition? Some dumb-ass idiot needs to be fired for this.


22 posted on 05/02/2013 10:45:36 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: yldstrk

LMBO!!!
You can’t make this stuff up.


23 posted on 05/02/2013 10:52:51 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: John Semmens

Source material (( ping )).


24 posted on 05/02/2013 10:53:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: yldstrk

2 masked gunman dead at my local school...Film at 11....*S*


25 posted on 05/02/2013 10:57:59 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: yldstrk

Absolutely stoopit.

Blanks can kill


26 posted on 05/02/2013 11:59:01 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Lancey Howard

Here: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/04/gunfire_and_moments_of_fear_as.html


27 posted on 05/03/2013 12:02:53 AM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis in Extremis)
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To: yldstrk

I was thinking of going into the local police station and testing their readiness by firing blanks at them.


28 posted on 05/03/2013 2:06:19 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: PLMerite

Even if nobody there was armed, they were lucky someone didn’t tackle one of them and beat the crap out of them. It would take quite a while for “it’s a drill” to sink in to the person doing the beating.


29 posted on 05/03/2013 3:20:15 AM PDT by conservaterian (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party, but no, if we do that the libs will win !)
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To: yldstrk

I can see the lawsuit now for PTSD, night terrors, etc. What a dumb stunt. Beyond that, there could have been injuries just by resistance with whatever was at hand, hot coffee carafe, attacking the gunmen physically, and so forth.


30 posted on 05/03/2013 3:24:56 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: yldstrk
This is causing quite a stir - making the gun control freaks heads explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo

only 2 minutes - pass it on after viewing. it is going viral ...

31 posted on 05/03/2013 3:29:39 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: yldstrk

...counselors are now available. A team of lawyers will be available during this week’s student production of “How to Waste a Few Million” and get excellent advice from local Democratic and Union leaders on where and when to stage your next fiasco. *that’s all for now,over and out*


32 posted on 05/03/2013 3:30:19 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: yldstrk

Pity none of the teachers were armed...


33 posted on 05/03/2013 3:34:38 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: yldstrk

Who would’ve thought that this was a good idea??!

I’m going to hang out a shingle as a ‘Common-Sense Consultant’. Pay me 5k for an hour consultation to talk you out of your idiotic idea, or pay the 5 million in lawsuits.


34 posted on 05/03/2013 3:44:57 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: bankwalker

That was a pretty good video.


35 posted on 05/03/2013 3:45:26 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
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To: yldstrk

I would like to know why those involved are not in jail for the numerous felonies committed during this “experiment.”

For example, assault, menacing, terrorist threats, violation of Title 18 USC civil rights under color of law and in the case of the school administration being accessories before the fact, or co-conspirators. And I’m sure that’s just a tiny fraction of the charges that should be brought.

Civil liability against all should run into the tens of millions.


36 posted on 05/03/2013 3:58:29 AM PDT by JackOfVA
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To: F15Eagle

Who will prosecute them? Who has standing to sue?

Nothing will happen to these guys. Thin Blue Line and all.


37 posted on 05/03/2013 4:00:16 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: yldstrk

I may be overboard with this idea, but it seems to me that the sheriff’s next move is simply to tell the community that they need more officers so that they can be used to protect the schools.

To me, this seems to be nothing more than an opportunity to get more officers/money. Maybe I am sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but that’s how it seems to me.


38 posted on 05/03/2013 4:01:51 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: yldstrk
Incredibly arrogant and stupid. Someone needs to be fired for this stunt.

They should go to the grocery store and throw cans of soup at people and
say nobody was prepared for cans of soup being thrown at them. good grief.

39 posted on 05/03/2013 4:05:30 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: yldstrk

thye sure wouldn’t dare to do that in a school where teachers carried guns, would they?

One teacher with a gun would have ended that drill and proved how teachers can protect schools


40 posted on 05/03/2013 4:05:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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