No, it’s not that simple. If it were, then all the other times clear backpacks were mandated would have stopped this. This has frequently been a “thing to do” after a school shooting over last couple decades.News article says they bought clear backpacks for all the students.
Is it really that simple?
Can we prevent all future school shootings simply by making students use clear backpacks?
or is it horse shit wishful thinking??
I WANT to believe this will act as a deterrent, but the kind of angry assholes who constantly scream about "MUH RIGHTS!" will not change their attitude or habits. They'll leave guns laying around the house, loaded, unlocked, and this will happen again. In fact I bet 5 dollars this happens one more time before June 30th or July 1st, and also becomes a big media fiasco that is forgotten before Christmas.Took long enough IMO.
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Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher indicted by grand jury
A grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher. Prosecutor Howard Gwynn said in a news release that a grand jury sitting in Newport News on Monday charged the boy’s 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a...apnews.com
'A grand jury sitting in Newport News charged the boy’s 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a firearm, Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said in a news release.'
I still say some of the school admin needs to be culpable as well, as the issue was attempted to be addressed several times the day of the shooting, and was ignored. It could have been prevented at the school.
Not good enough. Charges are only a misdemeanor. She needs to be charged with a felony. Absent that the teacher should sue that family into the poor house. That's the only way a lesson can be learned without serious prison time.I WANT to believe this will act as a deterrent, but the kind of angry assholes who constantly scream about "MUH RIGHTS!" will not change their attitude or habits. They'll leave guns laying around the house, loaded, unlocked, and this will happen again. In fact I bet 5 dollars this happens one more time before June 30th or July 1st, and also becomes a big media fiasco that is forgotten before Christmas.
If you guys are bored there's a really excellent episode of Homicide that deals with this shit, and it was made in 1994 or whatever. White people in rich neighborhood complain about blacks one neighborhood over. Some father buys a gun, loads it, leaves it in a kitchen drawer, his 6 year old gets it, shoots it straight into the air, bullet travels, kills a white person on the street near the black neighborhood, people make the wrong assumption, there's a minor race war, eventually the truth is revealed and the guy is arrested but not before making the cops question society and their role in the world.
Its pretty good, actually.
Felony child neglect was one of the charges placed against the mother. That count?Not good enough. Charges are only a misdemeanor. She needs to be charged with a felony. Absent that the teacher should sue that family into the poor house. That's the only way a lesson can be learned without serious prison time.
The firearms storage was just a misdemeanor. That law needs to be upgraded.Felony child neglect was one of the charges placed against the mother. That count?
