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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: 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?