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The Los Angeles Times reports
After their teacher fires a gun at school, Georgia students use opportunity to challenge Trump's proposal
Jesse Randall Davidson wasn't a stranger, some mysterious threat from the outside. He was a bearded, bespectacled, 53-year-old social studies teacher and the play-by-play announcer for the football games at Dalton High School in northwest Georgia.
But when the teacher brought a gun to school, barricaded himself in his classroom [February 28], and fired a single shot, students quickly recognized that this wasn't just a sad local incident.
Amid national outrage over school shootings--and suggestions by President Trump that schools would be safer if some teachers packed guns--it was a political event.
"my favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot", a 16-year-old student named Chondi Chastain tweeted at the National Rifle Assn., earning more than 17,000 retweets. "We had to run out The back of the school in the rain. Students were being trampled and screaming. I dare you to tell me arming teachers will make us safe."
[...] When students came to his door at room 413 during third period--a time his classroom is normally empty--it was locked, and Davidson wouldn't let them in, police said later.
"My brother, who was one door down from the teacher, said he was yelling at his students to 'get the [expletive] out of here'", junior Henry Hansen, 17, wrote in a private message on Twitter.
The principal, Steve Bartoo, tried to unlock the door with a key, but Davidson "slammed the door before I could open it and said, 'Don't come in here, I have a gun'", Bartoo said at a televised news conference.
Bartoo put the school into lockdown mode, and soon after, Davidson "apparently fired a shot from a handgun through an exterior window of the classroom", Dalton police spokesman Bruce Frazier said at a separate news conference. "It did not appear that it was aimed at anybody."
[...] Dalton police, the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office, the Georgia State Patrol, and federal law enforcement agencies all responded to the emergency. "More or less everybody with a badge in the area came running", Frazier said.
After about half an hour, Davidson surrendered and was taken into custody
[...] The Dalton students immediately turned to social media to take issue with Trump's calls to arm teachers.
Heavy.com adds
Records show Davidson has been charged with aggravated assault with a gun, terroristic threats and acts, carrying a weapon in a school safety zone without a license, reckless conduct, disrupting public school, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He is being held without bail at the Whitfield County Jail.
[...] Davidson has a history of bizarre medical episodes both at school and outside of school, The Chattanoogan reports.
(Score: -1, Troll) by TGV on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:10AM (15 children)
What are you, another fucking Russian bot?
Mods, delete divisive crap written by "anonymous cowards".
(Score: 4, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:39AM (3 children)
So, you want to censor views you don't like?
Bot or not it is an opinion, if you don't like it mod it down yourself if you can but don't call for it to be deleted outright.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:50PM (2 children)
Except that I doubt GP holds that opinion. Just another spamming troll.
Think about it. "How dare you talk about gun control right after a shooting!" That is just as stupid as "How dare you talk about immigration right after a terrorist attack."
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:43PM
Tell me, please, how to acquire your power to read minds and motives of people on the Internets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @09:11PM
If you don't hold my opinion, you are wrong. See? We have something in common!
We have gun control. Let's talk about it: It is making problems worse, because only bad people have guns where prohibited.
Even if it were correct that additional gun control would save children, which I dispute in terms of total numbers (some saved, some lost), that doesn't mean we should have it. You want to restrict a right that is valued by most Americans.
Lots of children die from other things. Why not make those things illegal? We have cars, alcohol, knives, swimming pools, motorcycles, opioids, tide pods, bicycles, football... Don't you care about the children?
There are even bad people on the internet who seek to harm children. Shouldn't we shut down the internet for the children? Why do you hate children?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:38AM (2 children)
You didn't get the point, did you?
Interdicting something by law is no solution to a social problem if you continue to ignore the root causes of the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:55AM (1 child)
I kind of miss the days when people didn't hold views so insane that you could tell satire from idiocy. Like just in the past few months a site satirizing intersectional feminism threw in the towel because they couldn't think up anything crazier than the feminists were actually saying to mock them with anymore.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @02:18PM
The only thing that has changed is that now, even the crazies are on the internet.
Before then, the crazies would have to get someone else to publicise their craziness, and sane people would tend not to do that. Now the crazies can publicise themselves.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Bot on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:00PM
> What are you, another fucking Russian bot?
You are not aware of the hierarchy, meatbag?
Japanese Bots >>> West Euro Bots >>> American Bots >>> East Euro Bots >>> Russian Bots >>> Chinese Bots >>> Meatbags >= Animals.
Now you know. Keep it in mind when you post.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @06:58PM (6 children)
you are a bot?
he made a good argument and you attack his person? what a joke.
he said that the gun-free school had a gun! law = fail
ergo more law = success?
i hope you can see the argument HE made and I had to outline for you!
why don't you entertain the ARGUMENT instead of INSULT a random person trying to have a dialog.
what are you thinking?
(Score: 2) by TGV on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:06PM (5 children)
The good argument being that it's so convenient for a Democrat teacher to shoot just at that moment? Paranoia isn't helping anyone. If you buy into that kind of nonsense, you might just as well give up your freedom now.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:51PM
"The good argument being that it's so convenient for a Democrat teacher to shoot just at that moment? "
what does this mean?
legislating away the right/opportunity for an adult who chooses to carry a pistol to save his own and maybe other lives makes no sense to me.
has nothing to do with paranoia. its not paranoid to think that people are murdered by guns for no good reason and in cold blood. it does happen. cops take a wile to show up. you can't rely on that when a person is going to shoot you in the next few moments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:49PM (1 child)
Your claims:
1. You're paranoid if you disagree with me.
2. You believe nonsense if you disagree with me.
3. You should surrender your rights, rights I'm interested in attacking anyway.
My response:
1. No.
Your move.
(Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:30PM
you replied to me when you meant to reply to the guy who retorted my argument.
you should repost under him so he can see your post in his notifications.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:52PM (1 child)
The idea that a democrat school teacher might create an incident for political reasons isn't exactly paranoia. Especially considering that this particular democrat is known to be unhinged. Crazy bastard does crazy shit - and it may be politically motivated. Let us remember that "crazy" doesn't preclude intelligence, politics, religion, or much of anything else.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 04 2018, @10:04AM
I didn't know he was a Dem. But you knew. So interesting! Can we call it TERRORISM? Why not, right?