Student with loaded gun taken into custody at Glen Burnie High

[alp227]

Source: Baltimore Sun

A 15-year-old student at Glen Burnie High who police say went to the school Tuesday with a loaded .22-caliber handgun was arrested and charged as a juvenile with a weapons violation.

Officials credited three staff members at the school with detaining the student and discovering the gun in a book bag.

"I don't think it's possible to overstate the importance that an alert school secretary and two assistant principals — who didn't take simple answers that weren't adding up at face value — played in preventing what could have been a disastrous situation," said Bob Mosier, a spokesman for Anne Arundel public schools.

County police said the student, who was not identified, left the Baltimore Annapolis Road campus Tuesday morning, then was spotted by a school secretary as he returned shortly after noon. The secretary stopped the student, and two assistant principals asked him why he had left.

Police said the student's responses "raised questions." School staff searched his book bag and found the.22-caliber pistol containing seven rounds, police said.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-md-glen-burnie-gun-0402-20130402,0,4250369.story

[longship]

1. This wouldn't have happened if the school secretaries were well armed!

Thank goodness for heads-up thinking. This might have prevented a bad thing.

[defacto7]

2. A 15 year old goes home and comes back with a gun...

Whether a 15 year old really knows what he is doing to the rest of his life or the lives of others, or if he can't see it yet... that is not something we can know. But one thing is for sure... kids will do what they see; they will do what their example teaches them. If they see they should deal with a problem with a gun, a gun is what they are going to use.

I have pity for those kids who are learning that a weapon fixes things.

[DFW]

3. The NRA won't like this

No shooting, no disaster, no dead or wounded, no reason for Keene and LaPierre to go on the talk shows again to tell us why more kids need to be armed instead of less.

[Quantess]

5. You're right, I predict.

This will be seen as overreactive nannies wanting to ruin a teenager's reputation over nothing.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Leaky Schools

If responsibility for safety is turned over to armed guards, maybe the
teaching staff and school personnel won't be as alert as they were
in this case.

I do wonder why "armed guards" are the perceived solution of the NRA.

"Security" or "Safety" staff might be a better PR job.

It's a shame when schools are unable to keep the students in the school.
That was a real problem at my high school, and I don't think the staff or
principals did enough about it. A school shouldn't be an armed, guarded
camp. It should be a safe, secure, controlled environment of learning.

[Paul E Ester]

6. The bar for LBN is getting pretty low with not LB news stories like these...nt

[Blue_Tires]

8. You don't have a lot of room to criticize LBN news judgement, imo

when this is your most recent contribution:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014440653

[Paul E Ester]

10. Punk in school with a gun vs. human rights violation by a US supported monarch.

I see the parallels.

[Blue_Tires]

12. I'm just saying

complaining does not help...If you think this story does NOT follow LBN rules, alert on it and the mods will close/move/merge it...If this story DOES follow LBN rules and you don't think it's newsworthy, quit griping and post more of the types of stories you think ARE newsworthy...It's not complicated..

[Paul E Ester]

17. Fair enough

Good advice. Thanks.

[Tx4obama]

22. Just so everyone knows...

Here on DU3 there are no moderators, only Hosts.
Hosts can lock a thread, but can not 'move' or 'merge' threads like the mods could on the old DU2.
If a thread gets locked then the OPer has the option of re-posting it in a different forum or group.

[elleng]

9. 'Within the last 12 hours,' is the requirement.

Published
By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun
7:24 p.m. EDT, April 2, 2013

Posted at 3:09 a.m.

Problem???

[Paul E Ester]

11. Is this notable?

Punks get caught with guns in schools every day, it's not national news and would likely not be front page in any mid sized daily newspaper. Maybe in mayberry.

[elleng]

13. Annapolis, Maryland, vis a vis today's gun debate is notable, imo.

[Paul E Ester]

16. Really?

There is nothing national, notable or interesting about this story. Even with the ongoing gun debate.

There are hundreds of incidents with guns every day. This is a big country and there are said to be 300 million guns, not all incidents with them are Late Breaking News. I'm not saying gun stories can't be late breaking news, it's clear this is not one of them.

Googled - searched for shooting and there are tons of better stories to post like

Detroit police officer shooting: 1 in critical condition, 1 released from hospital http://www.freep.com/article/20130403/NEWS01/304030126/Detroit-police-injured-suspect-dead-as-chase-ends-in-shootout


Police investigate double shooting at office building
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21010269709321/police-investigate-double-shooting-at-office-building/


Police investigate double shooting at office building
http://www.kcra.com/news/Robbery-suspect-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-Yuba-City/-/11797728/19573492/-/ot42l3/-/index.html

Ind. teen's shooting death part of gang initiation, four charged
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57577553/ind-teens-shooting-death-part-of-gang-initiation-four-charged/


Mich. Man Dead After Shooting In Colorado
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/04/03/mich-man-dead-after-shooting-in-colorado/

Victims identified in Auburn tavern shooting
Three men shot and killed outside The Sports Page Tavern in Auburn early Sunday morning were identified Tuesday by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/04/03/2540756/victims-identified-in-sports-page.html#storylink=cpy

Are these all late breaking news, maybe? Is some punk with a gun in school? Heck no.

[elleng]

18. I do not speak about any other posts,

THIS was LATE BREAKING, and is NEWS due to the subject matter and the fact it occurred in the Maryland State capital, and in a school. Remember Sandy Hook?

SORRY if you don't like it. Try to ignore non-news, maybe?

[ellisonz]

20. Maybe you should donate to DU and become an LBN Host.

Or you could send an SOP alert. Either way, what you're doing now is obnoxious and I am sad to say a jury gave you a pass.

[Blue_Tires]

14. So you've now posted three times in a thread you don't think belongs in LBN

You *DO* know you just keep kicking this to the top, right??

[tkmorris]

15. Stop it. Seriously just stop

The only reason you are raising any objection to this story is that it is about a kid bringing a gun to school, which doesn't support your position on gun control. If it had been an equally innocuous story about a kid selling crack at school, or a firefighter rescuing a cat from a tree, or a pit bull biting an old lady in El Paso you wouldn't care.

[LanternWaste]

19. I imagine I'd feel the same way if...

I imagine I'd feel the same way if one of my sacred cows was getting too much publicity.

[valerief]

7. If only he had MORE than one gun, everything would have been wonderful.

gungeoneer logic

[ellisonz]

21. I X-Posted to the Gun Control Reform Activism Group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12621884