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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @04:32PM
dude
the guys life is ruined because of what he did
any sort of sign that your beliefs are under attack seem to fit the narrative of what the NRA is pushing -- rule by fear and ignorance. You are 1000000000000000000% percent right about the narrative and noticing it, i can't agree with you more because that isn't a certain political slant, that is certainly political -- or just control. whoever is in charge wants the levers of control and this is just one any group can use.
but there is no way I can think this guy did his stunt because of some elaborate plot he hatched to undermine the ownership of guns. He's just stupid because he achieved nothing and will be harshly punished for it if you are correct.
my views just state he was stupid, but for different reasons.
and for the record, prior to this mass shooting, i had no idea gun free zones even exists except around elected politicians, enforced by aggressive people with guns (cops, security, private guards, etc).
because as you said the narrative is just telling us to admire the clothing the emperor is wearing.
and trump isnt arming any school teachers. because fuck that my taxes aren't going to teachers to carry weapons into school. they arent going to go into insurance policies to pay for life insurance payouts for kids shot because of guns that werent supposed to be there because people aren't stupid, not because the writing said only authorized people can fire weapons in a school at kids because otherwise the politicans get embarassed on national television.
No, ENFORCE THE DAMN LAWS about gun ownership, do the fucking checks, and when these people are reported or whatever, then yeah hire someone smart to figure out what the fuck to do about people threatening to kills others and amassing guns to do it. because putting handguns in the hands of teachers and telling them to bravely fight some fucked up person with military assault weapons is FUCKED UP. thats what you do when there's nothing left. there are wars where they sent in the women and children because all the good men died. our "good men" are fucking saying to arm the women and children.
drop the magical barrier magical thinking mental bubble that you, the people on the other side who just say no (isn't the republican party the party of no? arent they doing it now because freedom and liberty costs the lives of stupid kids who go to public school and not a private one favored by the political elite?) Hey I got news for you: you raise kids in a fucked up environment, they end up fucked up adults.
fucked up can be many things, like remembering this shit for the rest of their lives and acting accordingly that the adults didn't care because there was too m uch money involved to properly make schools safe for kids. then they'll vote if they dont do something worse
your best outcome is that they die so they cant influence anyone for more than a few months when the prayers are done being spoken by our elected officials.