Father tests schools security by saying he's a gunman.

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bigrash

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I try to sneak bombs onto planes all the time to expose flaws in TSA's security procedures. When I get caught I just tell them that's what I'm doing, and they are very understanding and appreciative of my efforts.

I sit around smoking crack because I am testing my police departments ability to find and arrest me.

lol
 

TallBill

Lifer
Apr 29, 2001
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I think the guy needs go to jail for ten years. What if an armed teacher had overheard the conversation? The potential for a deadly accident was there. Or even if the school employee had tried to physically attack the terrorist? Kids could have gotten injured. Or there could have been a panic and kids could have gotten injured.<br />
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No, what the guy did was a serious crime. Stupidity is an explanation not an excuse.
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"Armed teacher?" LOL! I <i>wish</i>. He demonstrated the need for armed teachers. Instead, the weapons-free zone applies to teachers AND police on school grounds. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.<br />
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Now everyone knows that schools are the places to shoot up for maximum emotional response and body count before a retaliatory weapon arrives. It will remain that way until we allow faculty to carry arms or put armed guards at every school. Which is more likely to happen?

News flash --- teachers are already carrying. More so at colleges, less stigma.
 

techs

Lifer
Sep 26, 2000
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Not sure if serious:confused:

What exactly is the charge for him? What he did was incredibly stupid but definitely not worth 10 years

What exactly is the charge? He went into a school and made a terrorist threat.
He broke both state and Federal laws.
 

cronos

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Nov 7, 2001
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Maybe one day we'll actually drill for this instead of being unprepared.

My son's elementary school does a drill for this every year. There's an annual fire drill, and then there's this one that they call a 'red drill' or something similar. My son described it as "when there's a bad guy in the school ground, maybe like a burglar with a gun or something".

In fact they actually just had one on Wednesday right before the Sandy Hook incident. He told me about it Wednesday evening, how they had to sit by the wall, not make a sound, lights turned off, etc. You can imagine how I felt when I saw the very thing was actually happening on Friday.

Oh and btw, wth is that guy thinking?
 

CZroe

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News flash --- teachers are already carrying. More so at colleges, less stigma.

News flash, person who can't even quote: those are the schools we're talking about! It's usually banned at a state level, and they're always plenty of signs leading mass murderers know which schools are "gun free zones" ... which would be almost all of them. :colbert: