Anonymous wrote:Why did MCPS put this kid at Wootton, or for that matter, any MCPS school other than a highly secure one for kids with violent tendencies?

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Anonymous wrote:The 15 year old girl he pointed the gun at earlier in the day- did she tell anyone? I'm sure she was terrified but I'm curious if she told anyone adult in the building? Did the school not take her seriously? Or was she too scared to tell anyone. I feel so sad for the wootton community and all directly involved.

Where did you hear this?

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

Much like I applauded and support the rights of the BCC students to exercise their first amendment rights by walking out, I fully support my 2nd amendment rights to lawfully own a gun. No Amendment in the Constitution is any more important than another and refusal to understand that will lead to a very slippery slope when they decide that women no longer need the right to vote.

That canard no longer holds any water, after seeing how mass gun distribution hasn't stopped Trump mob's rolling over America.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

Much like I applauded and support the rights of the BCC students to exercise their first amendment rights by walking out, I fully support my 2nd amendment rights to lawfully own a gun. No Amendment in the Constitution is any more important than another and refusal to understand that will lead to a very slippery slope when they decide that women no longer need the right to vote.

Anonymous wrote:The 15 year old girl he pointed the gun at earlier in the day- did she tell anyone? I'm sure she was terrified but I'm curious if she told anyone adult in the building? Did the school not take her seriously? Or was she too scared to tell anyone. I feel so sad for the wootton community and all directly involved.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

It’s an easy access to guns problem.

“Easy” access to firearms is an unfounded slogan. Lawful access to firearms, especially in Maryland, is anything but “easy.” Criminal access to contraband is — well — already criminal.

Clearly a child had easy access to a gun.

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Anonymous wrote:Metal detectors deter kids from bringing guns to school. This is a fact. Clearly there needs to be some kind of deterrent because a gun made its way into school.

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Guns in school aren't the metric that matters. Shootings are the metric that matter. Do metal detectors deter *shooters*?

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Anonymous wrote:No Amendment in the Constitution is any more important than another ... .

Really? I think free speech and due process are more important than D.C. electors (23rd Amendment) or delaying Congressional pay raises (27th Amendment).

I was originally going to limit it to the Bill of Rights but then realized we have so many equally important later in the Constitution. I spoke with slight hyperbole but the point still stands. The 2nd Amendment is just as important as the 1st and cannot and should not be limited.

Anonymous wrote:Metal detectors deter kids from bringing guns to school. This is a fact. Clearly there needs to be some kind of deterrent because a gun made its way into school.

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Anonymous wrote:Educate me. Would a metal detector catch all ghost guns?

Once again, ghost guns are guns without serial numbers. Nothing about them is designed to sneak past metal detectors

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Anonymous wrote:Has MCPS sent out a statement about this yet? We're not close to the school but our parent community is still talking about it.

Lol.

In the past, it is parents at the high schools who had an incident pasting on here the communications they received from mcps or the school administration

Insane to me that it has been almost 24 hours and no note from Taylor. Not even an attempt to reassure parents that situation is handled, or even vague attempts to assure safety or security. We're not asking for a plan. Just an acknowledgement that the most serious type of incident you could expect in your district has happened....and radio silence? No communication protocol for the rest of the district? This is a total failure to communicate to or support the community. It does not treat this incident with the significance it deserves. Unacceptable. Inexcusable.

I'm sure the delay was directly related to the fact that there was a police investigation ongoing. Cool your tits, Janice.

You Mad Mommies of MoCo are so insufferable.

OP here: Hate to disappoint, but I'm a dad. Not unreasonable to expect at least a note from MCPS.

Did you miss this?
https://mocoshow.com/2026/02/10/mcps-and-board-of-education-release-statement-following-wootton-high-school-shooting/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHv-ONL68ZzdWoi7c6s6jXxY5PimGl3ZCin7joR7QR0T14vW736rUVP_8ljIG_aem_xpCl0sfdmba6hS5dzV_GCQ

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/news/mcps-news/2026/02/joint-message-boe-and-mcps/

Joint Message from Grace Rivera- Oven, President on behalf of The Board of Education and Superintendent Thomas W. Taylor
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 10, 2026

Anonymous wrote:The 15 year old girl he pointed the gun at earlier in the day- did she tell anyone? I'm sure she was terrified but I'm curious if she told anyone adult in the building? Did the school not take her seriously? Or was she too scared to tell anyone. I feel so sad for the wootton community and all directly involved.