By Dean Weingarten
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The latest apparent overreaction about guns and schools appears to be in Ohio, in Stark County, at the Marlington High School in Alliance. A high school student texted a middle school student. Attached to the message was a picture of a gun. The middle school student showed the picture to their teacher, the teacher contacted the police, and the High School was put on lockdown. From wkyc.com:
Officers and deputies located the suspect while maintaining a safety perimeter around the school.
Corleaunce S. Hicks 16 , of Alliance, was charged with inducing panic, a third-degree felony.
There is usually more to these headline grabbing lockdowns than meets the first glance. It hardly seems appropriate or prudent to lockdown a school simply because a student texted a picture of a gun. Was the gun shown in the classroom? Was a threat made to kill fellow students?
The answer to those questions appears to be no. From the-review.com:
“I wouldn’t go as far as to say it was a threat, but it was a concerning statement,” Stark County Sheriff George T. Maier said of the message accompanying the gun image.
Maier said they found no weapons at Marlington High School. Deputies conducted interviews and locker searches while a Canton Police Department K-9 officer swept the school for weapons.
Investigators have determined that Hicks does not own a gun.
The gun in the image, Maier said, belongs to an acquaintance of Hicks.
Fortunately, the lockdown lasted less than an hour and a half. About like a fire drill when I was in high school. I would have to see the message in question, but a felony charge for a message that was “concerning” seems rather severe.
A tip of the hat to Wireless.Phil
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About Dean Weingarten;
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
The teacher should be charged with “inducing panic”-what an a**hole.
just more assinine BS from people with their collective heads up their own asses !
I wonder if there are some criminal charges that would apply to these school officials. Is there no law against stupidity?
Good thing it wasn’t a “Pop Tart”, it would be “felony endangering” . Just absolutely stupid response by the school and the police. This is where America has come to? When I was in school kids had .22 rifles and shotguns in their trucks and cars for shooting and hunting after school. We had students bring flint locks into class ( with the local police’s request “not to bring power and ammo” ) for demonstration purpose. Other schools used to have shooting teams… I just don’t understand the wussy liberal mind.
This is FU*KING unreal ! I think these candie asses do this just to piss us off ! I’m thinking about sending NRA membership material to the student body at this school !
Why are kids texting during class. Obviously the students aren’t doing their classwork, WTF are taxpayers paying for? babysitters? Now when taxpayers like me complain school taxes are too high , I have another reason to vote down anything for schools. 13 years of school for a lifetime of tax I think we lost our freedom along time ago your all blind to see it.
But, of course, they’ll be much more reasonable when a student brings a gun from home and hands it over to their teacher because they’re afraid. Idiots.
Looks like the Stark County School system has a ‘stark’ view of their students?