2 bullets.....this truly is my lucky day!
Posted on 11/23/2006 9:21:01 AM PST by pabianice
(This article is instructive as to the depth and breadth of anti-gun hysteria resident in Deep Blue Massachusetts.)
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Auburn incident was accidental
AUBURN, MA — A 12-year-old Auburn Middle School student has admitted to police he accidentally dropped two .22-caliber bullets from his pocket Tuesday morning prompting a search and two-hour precautionary lockdown of the Swanson Road school.
Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis Jr. said the student, who went to the police station with his father and talked to Detective James Lyman Tuesday night, will be summoned to Worcester Juvenile Court to face two charges of possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card.
“The student and his father contacted the Auburn Police Department Detective Bureau, and the student admitted and took responsibility for bringing the .22-caliber bullets into the school,” Chief Sluckis said yesterday morning.
Chief Sluckis said the student got the bullets from his father, who has an FID card. Chief Sluckis did not know the circumstances by which the bullets were brought to school.
Chief Sluckis said the youth, who is not being identified because of his age, told police he didn’t realize he had the bullets with him and they accidentally fell out of his pocket. One bullet was found in a first-floor boy’s restroom and the second round was found in a hallway leading up to the second floor.
Both rounds were found by students and turned over to their teachers, who contacted Principal Ann O’Leary Ortiz, who called police, Superintendent Helene Skrzyniarz said yesterday.
The discovery of the bullets that can be used in either a handgun or rifle led to a search of approximately 600 students and their lockers, as well as the two-hour lockdown in which students remained in their homerooms.
“One positive thing that came out of this was that no contraband was found in any of the lockers,” said Chief Sluckis, who defined contraband as weapons or drugs.
Ms. Skrzyniarz said she was “absolutely” pleased that no contraband was found in the student lockers.
Chief Sluckis, who met yesterday morning with Ms. Skrzyniarz and Mrs. Ortiz, said a person convicted of possessing ammunition without an FID card could face a year in prison and a $500 fine.
“Since he has no criminal record, I would not expect the court to be too heavy-handed,” Chief Sluckis said.
Mrs. Ortiz described the student as being “a nice kid and not anything close to being a problem in school,” Chief Sluckis said.
Nevertheless, he said the student could be facing some discipline from the School Department and Ms. Skrzyniarz said that likely would happen.
“I’m sure there will be consequences at the school level as well,” she said.
The student was not at school yesterday, Chief Sluckis said.
“His father made the decision to keep him out of school,” the chief said.
After the search was completed, students went to lunch and finished the rest of their school day as well as after-school activities, Ms. Skrzyniarz said. Mrs. Ortiz and Assistant Principal John Giodano talked with students at their tables during lunch to explain what had occurred, she added. Mrs. Ortiz also sent letters to the students’ parents and guardians detailing the situation, the superintendent said.
Ms. Skrzyniarz, who returned telephone calls yesterday to four parents who left messages for her on Tuesday, said she went to the school yesterday to see how the students were doing.
“I wanted to see how they were weathering the incident,” she said.
Students were dismissed early yesterday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
Ms. Skrzyniarz said she finished a meeting she was in and arrived at the school about 10 minutes after hearing what had happened. She said by the time she arrived about 10 to 12 “state and mostly local” police officers had arrived.
“It was busy at the school,” she said. “It was extremely quiet, extremely controlled,” she said.
Both Chief Sluckis and Ms. Skrzyniarz said the search and lockdown that was heavily covered by Boston television and radio stations, was justified.
“If we didn’t take any action we would have been negligent,” Chief Sluckis said.
It's crimes like this that might make Massachusetts reinstate the death penalty.
Isn't it a shame that the authorities have lost all sense of proportionality.
Isn't it a shame that the authorities have lost all sense of proportionality.
As contrasted to my 11-yo, who owns a very nice Ruger competition rifle.
If they were just bullets, then there was no danger. If they were cartridges, then the potential for harm is higher, but you still need a firearm to shoot them.
“I wanted to see how they were weathering the incident,” she said.
I hope the little darlings aren’t too traumatized. Ms. Skrzyniarz would have been horrified to have seen what we brought to school in the '50s and '60s.
Not 1 but 2 bullets!!!!
The rest of the students will need psychological counseling for life to overcome this tramatic event. /sarcasm
If only he'd had a pack of smokes on him, then we could see true justice return to that state.
Ms. Skrzyniarz would have gone into a coma if she had seen me carrying a shotgun to the principal's office when I was in high school. After all, they didn't allow us to keep them in our lockers during school so we had to leave them in the office.
Ms. Skrzyniarz, as if having a completely unpronounceable name were not bad enough, you are also a full-fledged barking moonbat numbskull. But, as a good liberal, you can always blame "the system" for that;)
The great wasteland of TV like GUnsmoke,WAgon TRain,LOne Ranger and the rest emphasized good behavior,responsible gun handling as an incidental part of the story line,and promoted good citizenship.Today's "entertainment" is about non-stop pointless violence and gratuitous sex.
You suppose thatt could influence the kids?
Who wants to take a shot at pronouncing that cat-with-a-keyboard name. o_O
They took those violent Bugs Bunny cartoons off the air and replaced it with much more realistic human violence.
You'd think he brought a bomb to school.
Ah..you brought a live 20 mike-mike? I don't even want to know.
2 bullets.....this truly is my lucky day!
"Weathering the incident?" LOL! Quick, call in the counselors, because I'm sure they were very traumatized. I take it, this must be a big event in MA?
That's what I don't get. If you have a weapon, you're definitely going to have bullets for it, so these two extra bullets aren't really useful.
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