Posted on 01/11/2006 10:58:18 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
OVID NY— Two teenagers were charged Tuesday after allegedly having a rifle in the parking lot of South Seneca Central Junior/Senior High School at 7263 Main St.
District Superintendent Janie Nusser said a student came on campus with a rifle in her car to give it to the rifle’s owner who was another student. She said they made the transfer in the school parking lot in violation of board policy and state law.
“I think when students saw the rifle, they were concerned and reported it to adults and we immediately called law enforcement,” Nusser said.
“I think what heightened people’s concerns was the student that was the owner of the gun had been involved in an argument with another student just prior to the transfer. At this time in the investigation, we do not see a connection between the two incidents.”
Nusser said the incident happened at the end of the school day and reports of a lockdown are untrue.
“It’s an ongoing investigation, so for me to give you much information would be premature,” she said.
Nusser would not name the students, but Seneca County sheriff’s deputies charged Jeffrey R. Warne, 17, of 7904 Route 89, Interlaken, and Jessica L. Prindle-Ike, 16, of 8494 Mill St., Lodi, with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Deputies said the .22-caliber rifle was not pointed at anyone during the incident.
The teens were ticketed and are to appear Jan. 30 in Ovid Town Court.
Mall's are private property and entered by me (rarely)by my consent. Same as my neighbors house - public schools are Publicly funded, mandated and participation is strictly enforced (all to my great dismay).
Political correctness and zero tolerance means that you treat a kid with a .22 rifle in his trunk the same as a Crips banger with a Tec-9 in the hallway.
The best one I heard happened in Western Washington when a boy was suspended for bringing a G.I.Joe gun to school. It was one inch long. Made of plastic.
No, the right to bear arms doesn't extend to minors. Just like the right to vote and unlimited free speech don't extend to them either. The courts have ruled repeatedly, and the Supreme Court has affirmed, that minors do not share the same legal rights and responsibilities as adults. This protects society by preventing 15 year olds from electing Brittney Spears president, and it protects kids by preventing the government from drafting them.
The second amendment is no more or less important than any of the other amendments from a legal standpoint.
As for this particular case, I agree with them being punished. If a passing police officer had seen kids with rifles in the parking lot, this could have easily become a tragic situation. That's not even getting into the reality that these doofuses publically displayed the fact that they were leaving a firearm in an unsecured and unprotected vehicle all day. Even if these kids meant no harm, it's incredibly easy to pop the trunk on a car, and anyone who saw them swap the rifle could have stolen it in a matter of minutes.
There's a lot of stupid in this story, and most of it belongs to the two kids.
I didn't say it would stop anyone bent on murder. I said it's against the law.
I frequently will not think about taking my gun off when I'm going somewhere such as the post office where it is illegal for me to have my gun. But I've never been charged for having a gun where I wasn't supposed to because I've never taken it out and showed it around.
Whether or not these kinds of zero tolerance laws are good or bad isn't the point. The point is, if you have a rifle on school property you are violating the law. You don't then announce the presence of the gun by taking the rifle out of your car to exchange it with someone else in front of witnesses.
This was just poor judgment on the part of the kids.
Do you think its wrong that airlines make passengers declare amd/or check their firearms?
Even peace officers surrender their weapons when visiting prisoners in jail.
Seems prudent to restrict firearms in some places. Any place that serves liquor comes to my mind. I've got no problem with school grounds being one of the "off-limits" places. If this girl had common sense she would have done the exchange at one of their homes, or some more appropriate place.
I would say she is not one of the sharper knives in the drawer. And her sense of good judgement is lacking. I hope her parents make her pay the fine and then take her rifle.
It's a rifle. It's school grounds. These should not mix.
Unless it's a firearms class with a certified adult instructor and adequate security.
Should you are I be allowed to CCW on school grounds?
They went to public school- I think that leaves the answer to your question astronomically large. In fact they could be stupid enough to vote democrat or stupid enough to think the government is their friend.
I agree - ban the school not the rifle. Schools are the greater threat to America by far.
But that was during the Eisenhower Administration when things were different. :-)
Nixon actually.
Arthalion wrote No, the right to bear arms doesn't extend to minors.
yankeegirl wrote it Seems prudent to restrict firearms in some places.
not having that right extend to minors has got minors murdered. even minors have the inalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and if they have the inalienable right to life they have the right to defend their life by any means necessary click the link
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-08-Sun-2006/news/4951446.html
What law is that?
"What law is that?"
Depends where you are. Most states have laws prohibiting firearms from schoolgrounds.
Things sure have changed since I was in HS. If you owned a truck, you had a gunrack in it. If you drove a car, there was the trunk.
"They still have rifle teams associated with JROTC here in NM, but use precision air rifles (no lead remediation problems, no hearing protection needed, and the range can be a classroom with a cinderblock wall as a backstop in case they miss the pellet trap) "
Good deal! I like air rifles, and have a 10 meter range in my basement. It's great fun when company's over, and everybody gets to shoot. I've introduced the kids in my wife's family to shooting there. Nobody else in the family is into guns at all. Still, everyone has a good time trying to hit those tiny little targets.
They're a great introduction to firearms and firearms safety. All the rules I'd apply to any range apply to that 10 meter range.
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