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Pointing a finger gun lands 12-year-old Johnson County student in handcuffs

Graham2001

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This is a perfect example of how not to increase support for Gun Control.


A 12-year-old Overland Park girl formed a gun with her fingers, pointed at four of her Westridge Middle School classmates one at a time, and then turned the pretend weapon toward herself.


Police hauled her out of school in handcuffs, arrested her and charged the child with a felony for threatening.


Shawnee Mission school officials said they could not discuss the case, citing privacy laws, but did say it wasn’t the district that arrested the child.
“We don’t do that,” said spokesman David Smith. “That is not our job.” He said the role of the district police is “not to enforce the law but to keep kids and adults safe.”
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article235891762.html
 
Oh. That just makes me tired. Really, it's come to this?
 
Oh for **** sake. Do nothing about real guns, but arrest a kid doing something I’ll bet every kid in the world has done.

Some will enter this thread and defend the arrest, which is even more troubling.
 
cullennz said:
Kind of inevitable really given the situation.
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Inevitable? For pointing fingers?

You simply can’t be serious. Police have discretion, even if this childish act can, in some crazy universe, be described as “threatening”.
 
lionking said:
Inevitable? For pointing fingers?

You simply can’t be serious. Police have discretion, even if this childish act can, in some crazy universe, be described as “threatening”.
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If you have stupidly large amounts of school shootings and no proper controls on gun availability, people will go one of 2 ways.

They will go external and stop any guns getting in with every effort imaginable, like actual entrance screenings

Or they will go loopy and go internal and end up over reacting to anything remotely gun like in the the school.

Both just get upped as there are more and paranoia sets in.

So you either end up with metal detectors and bullying school police, or doing stupid things when kids play gun fight (which is normal)
 
Actually I forgot the 3rd

They arm all the staff and more kids end up dying from panicky idiot teachers who shouldn't be trusted with a pen, let alone a gun.

This has been talked about, but thankfully hasn't been taken up.
 
lionking said:
Inevitable? For pointing fingers?

You simply can’t be serious. Police have discretion, even if this childish act can, in some crazy universe, be described as “threatening”.
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In the context (that we know of at the moment) the teacher is totally responsible for this escalating.

The child didn’t, out of the blue, walk up to her classmates and point her finger.
According to the account in the OP link, the children were involved in a classroom discussion. We’re not told about what.
But we are told that she was asked, during a supervised classroom discussion, “who would you shoot?”

Mitigating circumstances as to “intent” as far as I’m concerned.
 
And if the the little scamp actually did go on to waste her classmates, everyone would be screaming about not seeing the signs.

Offended and threatened. Welcome to The USA.
 
AJM8125 said:
And if the the little scamp actually did go on to waste her classmates, everyone would be screaming about not seeing the signs.

Offended and threatened. Welcome to The USA.
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As I said earlier, which kid hasn't pointed a gun finger at another kid? Should they all be arrested?
 
Ulf Nereng said:
When I was a kid we would dress up with cowboy hats and shoot each other with toy guns. Is that still allowed? :confused:
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Would think in some schools in the US given this, a piece of wood imaginatively turned into a gun would be separation from parents
 
lionking said:
One example in a country of 300 million is evidence of nothing. And this example wasn’t about wood shaped into a gun.

But keep on posting without thinking.
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The only thing I see is over reaction to what is not a problem.

But keep telling your self the teachers aren't reacting as I described
 
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