Posted on 03/22/2002 7:42:56 AM PST by vannrox
Just announced on FOX TV. I was unable to get the details, and I can't find it on the Internet Yet.
Summary is that there is a current High School Teacher who has been arrested. He is charged with a FELONY. His crime is that he was driving three high school students to a nearby state to purchase ammo. The report did not mention if he was the teacher of the students or not. The report did not mention the names or the ages of the students. The report did not mention in how the LAW got involved in this issue.
Does anyone have any more information on this?
I'll wait till I hear the particulars before I start choosing sides.
Uh maybe their parents told the law.
I know the whacked out gun nuts(i.e I have a right to own a nuclear weapon) will be howling, but that teacher was stupid and I am glad he was arrested.
The leftists shouldn't get too upset yet.
They could have been buying them for a partial-birth abortion.
Then it would be alright again.
WORCESTER, Mass. -- A teacher's aide in Worcester's public schools has been arrested on federal firearms charges for allegedly driving to New Hampshire with three students to buy ammunition that was later used in a drive-by shooting.
Thomas Currier, 53, was arrested Thursday on a charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition. Currier pleaded guilty to armed robbery in the mid-1970s and served almost two years in a New Hampshire prison.
Currier, a teacher's aide at an alternative public school in Worcester, drove three of his juvenile students to New Hampshire on about Jan. 10 to purchase ammunition which was subsequently used in a shooting in Worcester on Feb. 2, federal authorities said.
"It is unconscionable that someone who is responsible for teaching and mentoring young students would transport them across state lines to purchase ammunition," U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said.
Currier will remain in federal custody until a detention hearing scheduled for Monday.
If convicted, Currier faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Here is the link for the Boston Channel:Teacher's Aide Arrested On Firearms Charges
They say they mellowed out these days. But Massachusetts is still the land of puritan zealots, who call themselves liberals these days. One can change the flavor of dogma. But it is the fanatic imposition of such dogma which gives them the pleasure.
This is not a hill that pro-2nd amendment folks want to die on.
So, you aren't just a big proponent of the War on Drugs and Forfieture and Police State Tactics, but you are also contemptous of the right to keep and bear arms.
Why does that not surprise me? Someday, when we are all issued little 8x10 cells to live in, then, then you will finally be happy and at rest.
Hey! He had to drive them to get ammo! He had no choice! They were offering him 5 vials of crack!
I am not contemptuous of the right to keep and bear arms, I am contemptuous of people who abuse this right, like this doofus teacher.
1) He's not a teacher, but a teacher's aide.
2) He's a felon
3) the ammo was used in a felony
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