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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the mental-issues dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:17PM (8 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:17PM (#647018) Journal

    One group believes perennially that if they can just shoot up one more school,

    Hold on, are you saying that all these school shootings are being deliberately perpetrated by anti-gun folks in order to drive public opinion towards their position?
    Because if you are that's some quality paranoia right there.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:23PM (5 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:23PM (#647021) Journal
    No, I'm not saying that they're being deliberately perpetrated by anti-gun folks.

    But I will say it's certainly not *pro-gun folks* doing this.

    The shooters themselves, in every case, appear to be motivated more by narcissism and drama-llama than any real political goal.

    But what encourages them? The media coverage, the notoriety, the idea that *relevance* can be seized by force.

    These are not things they're learning on the farm.
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    • (Score: 1) by speederaser on Saturday March 03 2018, @02:15PM (1 child)

      by speederaser (4049) on Saturday March 03 2018, @02:15PM (#647048)

      Mass shootings, school or otherwise, are perpetrated by people under enormous emotional distress, coupled with a lack of empathy with their fellow human beings.

      People with these emotional problems don't fall in one politic direction or another. Every group you can think of is represented. Politics has nothing to do with it.

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:12PM

        by west (6884) on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:12PM (#647247)

        correlations amoung school shooters:
        SSRI prescriptions
        socially isolated
        democrats

        not saying causation. democrats probably because democratic cities have much higher gun crime rate.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by FatPhil on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:41PM (2 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:41PM (#647310) Homepage
      > The shooters themselves, in every case, appear to be

      ... gun nuts.

      If you don't understand that, then you won't understand the posts to which you are responding, which have way more than a kernel of truth to them.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @03:39PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @03:39PM (#647631)

        ad hominem has such a wonderful track record of changing minds

        • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by FatPhil on Monday March 05 2018, @06:46AM

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday March 05 2018, @06:46AM (#647885) Homepage
          That's not ad hominem, you fucking retard.

          Neither's that.
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:06PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:06PM (#647197)

    What i believe is the operators were sick and damned tired of taking reports on the Parkland shooter, more than likely muttering something like, "If this kid is going to shoot up that school he better stop talking and get on with it, we can't bury many more of these reports." as they hung up. Lots of people saw something, most of them apparently said something. The very people the Progs insist should be the only ones with the right to bear arms did nothing. When they had ample reports before that this loser was about to go off they did nothing. As he did his deed they did nothing. After the only things they are doing is covering their asses, politicizing it to grab more power and planning to demolish the building and build a fucking shrine to the shooter in an obvious attempt to encourage more shooters.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @08:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @08:49AM (#647560)

    The authorities knew they has a live one with this Nikolas de Jesus Cruz. They also like to shadow and cultivate a person like that and get them roped into some scheme where they pull the trigger on a phoney bomb or something.

    Stopping a guy like Nikolas de Jesus Cruz is not their goal - not at least until they can rack up more charges to make it look like they keep us safe. Not exactly a false flag, not exactly incompetence - they simply have different markers for success which have nothing to do with keeping us safe. If nobody was murdered in a given year, would police (state & fed) resources increase or decrease?

    Logically, they ought to decrease or at least not increase. Logically, we ought to then focus on disease or accidents and more likely causes of death. These shootings, they have as much incentive to stop as the DEA has incentive to stop drugs. I.e., none whatsoever.