 We Had A Gun Scare At School Today. |
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 Jun 23 2008, 09:54 AM
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Super Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 306 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968  |
QUOTE(Mermaid711 @ Jan 17 2008, 05:38 AM)  Well, I'm not going to disclose the name of my school or the town it's located in, for those of you who already know, more power to you. And for those of you who don't know, I'm terribly sorry. Anyway (edit), we had to go into lock down (edit) today, for two hours and fifteen minutes. We were held after the dismissal bell for a class and after the bell to go home. What happened is a kid brought a remote control race car controller to school. No big deal right? Wrong. He was joking around about having a gun. And if you looked at the controller at a glance, it really did look like a gun. They had to search EVERY SINGLE room for this kid. He was described as a Caucasian (edit) male with a light blue polo and khaki (edit) shorts on. No middle schooler in the middle of America would wear that to school in his right mind, right? Wrong again. At our school, we have this thing called standardized (edit) dress. It's essentially (edit) uniforms, but the people who are in charge of the school district don't call it that so they don't have to buy the poor people clothes. It was rather ironic because I was trying to convince my algebra teacher that uniforms were a bad idea. . . for a reason JUST LIKE THIS. Well, just to give you an idea of what trying to find this kid was like, our school district is a AAAA (four-A), the second largest ranking a school district can be. Our middle school however is a CCC (three-C) which is the largest ranking a middle school can get. We have roughly 850 kids in our middle school. So try finding that kid in a class. Yeah. Well, I was in one of my favorite classes. But the teacher started to get stressed out. . . and he's not on his meds.  So today was rather interesting. . . yeah (edit). And just to clear up any confusion, WE DID NOT HAVE A GUN AT ALL!! What a waste of two hours and fifteen minutes  at least nobody was hurt  This is so bad. This culture is spreading in so many parts of the world. I am in India and the number of cases where this is happening is lot more than the past decade. Definitely this is very bad in all senses. Governments and institutions should take responsibility in preventing this. Values has to be inculcated to students. |
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Jun 23 2008, 11:24 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 29 Joined: 23-June 08 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Member No.: 64,044 |
QUOTE(sonesay @ Jan 16 2008, 06:18 PM) I think all schools in USA should have one security guard with a gun to deal with people who bring them to school. That way if someone goes on a killing spree atleast you have someone to fight back and hold them off until the cops arrive. It may even save a few lives instead of the crazy person being able to roam around freely and kill people till the cops arrive and he kills himself. Seriously? Think about this, Violence only begets more violence, Hostility breeds hostility. Although the state of society is such that it is dangerous to go to school in some area's, posting an armed S/O in EVERY school would be a horrid idea. Think about this: The S/O is chatting it up, or is otherwise distracted, and lil Johnny is having the worst day of his life. Lil Johnny decides that he wants to bring a gun to school, but he cant get it past the metal detectors right? He walks up behind the S/O and because lil Johnny is a good boy, noone cares to think that there is a problem, Johnny takes the S/O's weapon and starts to "seek his revenge". Point being, if our ultimate goal is to prevent weapon related violence in schools, Why have a firearm inside? It just seems hypocritical to me, but thats just my opinion. Secondly, how do u think the posh, private schools are gonna feel if they've got an armed officer there at all times? Im sure the parents would just absolutley love it... Dont you? |
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Jun 23 2008, 02:00 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 474 Joined: 26-January 06 From: New Durham, NH Member No.: 17,651 |
Schools are safe havens... or at least I never had the feeling that I was going to be killed on a school day when I went to school.
Back in elementary school in Honolulu, HI, we did have security guards, but for the reason of breaking up fights and to discourage any misconduct. These guys were 300-lb Samoans... you didn't want to cause any trouble around those guys unless you WANTED to be manhandled.  I would NOT recommend throwing in armed security guards in any school. Just the act of doing so makes us as a society succumb to the possibilities of our own people terrorizing our way of life. It's stupid. We should not have to worry about this kind of crap at all. On the same token, to prevent any occurrences, I would put into effect a law that any bomb scares or threats about bring in weapons to a school should be punished by expulsion from the school and/or a heavy fine to discourage such behavior. Also, in the case of an actual school shooting, teachers and staff should be trained to react accordingly to such situations: either remain calm and comply to demands, or know how to seek shelter, assist, and escape. It's so retarded that we have to even worry about this crap. Get along with people, get to know them, and if someone's acting distant, seek help for them. Help your fellow man... don't fear him. |
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Jun 23 2008, 03:25 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 889 Joined: 23-December 05 Member No.: 16,099 |
Down here in Australia, they havent gone to the extremes of hiring security guards and/or having metal detectors in the school as yet. But police patrols around the area are often, although not frequently. But yes, if someone does bring a toy gun and decides to play around and/or joke around with it, it does tend to be taken seriously.
There has been a notable incident in my local school where a person brought a toy gun to a drama class, decided to play and joke around in the area and got the school in complete lockdown until the person who brought the gun had to explain to the police that it was only a "toy" gun brought for the drama class. |
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Jun 23 2008, 08:07 PM
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Premium Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 151 Joined: 19-June 08 From: United Kingdom - Cornwall!!!!! Member No.: 63,876 |
Wow... Thats bad... kids with guns - even fake ones.
I think that having armed guards, and metal detectors in a school, is going way to far; If there is need for that, then things are going wrong - very badly. And I know they are necesary in some places, but surely it would be better focusing on stopping people bringng guns to school in the first place, than trying to stop them getting inside with them. |
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Jun 23 2008, 08:59 PM
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Member [Level 3] Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 93 Joined: 16-June 08 Member No.: 63,700 |
I agree with what sonesay said about every school should have at least one campus security guard at all times including elementary and middle schools. Not like some cheesy volunteer security guard, but a legit security guard in case of emergencies like this. I think metal detectors are pretty extreme but a campus security isn't that extreme. And the whole deal about kids bringing fake weapons to school, that is so stupid of them. They need to be informed of the danger and money it causes the entire school which in turn affects the whole district and stretches out to students' families.
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Jun 24 2008, 07:07 AM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 46 Joined: 16-June 08 From: Newcastle, NSW Member No.: 63,699 |
I remember back in the day we had the whole lot, bomb scares, weaponry scares, break-in enter scares... The bomb and weaponry scares were fake but i do remember them. Nowadays i hear that most schools have introduced a lock down mode. Where all students get in a classroom roll the blinds down and stick to under the windows or something.
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