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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: 2) by RamiK on Saturday March 03 2018, @05:18PM (8 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday March 03 2018, @05:18PM (#647140)

    And combat helmets too. Same with the kids by making it mandatory school uniform. And rebuild the schools with SWAT entry points and control points in mind. Also add release vents with knockout gas that the principle can remotely activate. And make sure to station a national guard squad in every high-school since the cops are too afraid to charge in. And throw in an attack dog for every class room.

    Can't be too safe.

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  • (Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:16PM (4 children)

    by west (6884) on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:16PM (#647207)

    we get it your against security measures.

    its and idea that might help. (allowing adults to carry pistols on school like everywhere else)
    i say WHY NOT TRY TO HELP?

    whats your alternative idea?
    whats your reason behind making schools an exception to conceal carry for those that choose to do so?

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:38PM (3 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:38PM (#647308) Journal

      i say WHY NOT TRY TO HELP?

      Politician's fallacy [wikipedia.org]

              We must do something
              This is something
              Therefore, we must do this.

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      • (Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:56PM (2 children)

        by west (6884) on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:56PM (#647317)

        >Therefore, we must do this.

        this is the consensus on the left. represented by CNN, MSNBC, buzzfeed (lol), et al.

        if thats your retort then i guess we might as well shut down congress save for budget bills, right?

        frankly i don't see any issue worth addressing, on average 110 people are shot in schools per year. more people died in schools in the 90s and earlier. the problem is getting BETTER, actually.
        but that is NOT the political conversation at the moment.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:09PM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:09PM (#647323) Journal

          Careful! At this rate, you'll waste your wealth on straws and I'm not buying strawmen.

          That fallacy is wrong no matter who uses it, you (with "why not try it") and CNN included.

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          • (Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:34PM

            by west (6884) on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:34PM (#647332)

            >waste your wealth on straws and I'm not buying strawmen.
            its not a straw man dude.
            im speaking in the context of the current political climet.

            in any case, saying "why not" try is my argument for potential policy REPEAL (not legislation).
            there is more potential gain than potential loss (my argument).

            this is not a straw man at all. it is NOT.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:17PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:17PM (#647208) Homepage Journal

    Unnecessary. One security guard at each building entrance and teachers able to carry if they choose would be quite sufficient.

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    • (Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:47PM

      by west (6884) on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:47PM (#647228)

      i like ben shipperos example:
      he was at a private school with armed guards at the door.
      a mass murderer drove by, saw the guards and kept going: to a school with no guards wherein he murdered people.
      security footage shows this.

      at least this one time it worked. is it not worth while to do something so simple to save, even one, life?

    • (Score: 1) by west on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:00PM

      by west (6884) on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:00PM (#647239)

      unnecessary?
      it is free since adults who CC already CC [conceal carry] and guards cost a lot of money.
      also its might help. so who cares about necessity.