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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]they just lifted it. my kids inside. says officers releasing classes. someone had a gun in art class is what kids are saying[/quote]

This is terrifying. [b]There is no barrier or deterrence to prevent kids from bringing weapons on school grounds. Why is everyone ok with this?
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We go through screening at the airport to avoid this stuff but despite countless incidents at schools, we continue to let it be a free-for-all. I guess they're waiting for enough kids to die or get hurt before they do something drastic. Even though Magruder already happened on MCPS's watch.[/quote]

Wrong.  There are laws, and they generally work.  No need to overreact to a single rumor (which is what this is so far).[/quote]

A single rumor? Are you paying attention?

Last week, Richard Montgomery was on lockdown for this same issue.

Wheaton had a gun brought on campus: https://wjla.com/news/local/wheaton-high-school-bb-gun-montgomery-county-police-loaded-handgun-marijuana-backpack-teen-student

Blair G. Ewing Center (an alternative MCPS high school): https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-county-public-schools-blair-ewing-center-student-brought-handgun-ammunition-bullets-found-police-sro-resource-officers

Uninvited student apprehended at Bethesda MS: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/12/27/uninvited-student-apprehended-at-north-bethesda-ms/

BB Gun shooting at Silver Spring International Middle School: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/7th-grader-shot-in-thigh-by-classmate-with-bb-gun-in-silver-spring-maryland/65-e231537c-2570-4705-be1b-3d82913b6bba

BB Guns at Walter Johnson and Magruder: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/03/24/bb-guns-recovered-at-magruder-walter-johnson-high-schools/

Blair lockdown: https://mocoshow.com/blog/blair-lockdown-lifted-following-report-of-weapon-outside-on-school-property/

Stabbing at Blair High School: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/stabbing-outside-high-school-shelter-in-place-montgomery-blair-high-school/65-ad2874d3-284b-4e94-be02-cfc375daaf54

But yeah.....the laws are working and we're overreacting to a single rumor. That math makes sense to you.[/quote]

Lol, that was 1 week at RM alone in the 70’s and 80’s

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.[/quote]

So you're not bothered. Noted.

The rest of us who care about our kids' wellbeing and have a moral code will continue the discussion.[/quote]

I am bothered but I also don’t think the sky is falling,

You seem to lack moral codes actually.[/quote]

You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. You're bothered but your response to back-to-back high school lockdowns and a laundry list of violent or threatening incidents in MCPS is that it was like this or even worse in the 70s or 80s. You're a horrible person.[/quote]

Dp. I went to Einstein in the 80's. A friend of mine brought a gun to school. It was in her locker and she showed it to me. Someone must have seen it, too, because my friend was later quietly removed from class and I never saw her again. My nephew goes to Einstein and he said there was a lockdown and a classroom was raided to arrest a student who brought a gun to school. He showed me texts from classes where they tilted tables and hid behind them. I'm not going to say which way was better, but very few children were affected, let alone knew about the gun when I was a student. Of course, no one had a cell phone then.[/quote]
To be fair back in the 80s even if someone brought a gun to school the concept that the person with the gun would go through the school and just start opening fire was unheard of. Present day, you hear gun in school and your first thought is there is going to be an active shooter. [/quote]

Yeah DH grew up in flyover country and it was common for HS students to keep a gun in their locker to go hunting after school!  :shock: Pre-Columbine, obviously.[/quote]

Yeah, there were kids with guns and knives in my HS in the 80s and you just stayed away from them.  Someone did end up getting shot in the parking lot in 1990 or so — I think it was a fight over a girl or something like that.  But I still don’t think it led to major changes.  But my HS Junior was a 1st grader when Sandy Hook happened, and in MS when Parkland happened.  Their trigger response is just entirely different than ours was.  They’ve grown up with this as a reality in a way that we really didn’t — even after columbine, which really did seem like a one-off freak occurrence, until it wasn’t.  
I still think most kids are not really at risk from any of this — the drug dealers don’t want to shoot a bunch of random studious HS kids, and the guy that brings a gun to school because someone challenged him to a fight is also not likely to shoot my kid.  But I understand the kids are scared, and I understand why they are scared.  And the schools are in a situation where they need to react to every instance in this way, which probably increases the anxiety all around.[/quote]

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