Guns at School News

[struggle4progress]

Ohio boy who shot himself planned attack on school
POSTED: MAR 03 2018 04:57PM EST
UPDATED: MAR 06 2018 09:33AM EST
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A seventh-grader who shot and killed himself inside an Ohio middle school restroom last week was planning to shoot others at the school before changing his mind at the last second, a police chief said Thursday. The boy .. came out of the bathroom holding a semi-automatic rifle just before classes began and then abruptly went back inside and shot himself in the head, said Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink. Police don't know why Simons didn't carry out the attack ...

Student Used Father's Gun to Kill His Parents at Central Michigan University
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: March 3, 2018 12:11 PM ET | Originally published: March 2, 2018
(MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.) — A 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory had just been picked up from a hospital where campus police had brought him because of suspected drug abuse, authorities said Saturday. Central Michigan University police .. told reporters that the gun used in the killing was registered to the suspect’s father ...

Student accidentally shoots himself at Douglass High. Metal detectors coming soon.
BY MIKE STUNSON AND VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS
Updated March 09, 2018 10:40 PM
A student accidentally shot himself in a classroom at Lexington’s Frederick Douglass High School with a “pocket-sized handgun” he took to school Friday, according to school district police and administrators. The 16-year-old freshman student was taken to University of Kentucky Hospital for treatment and charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a weapon on school property, police said. He had an injury to his left thumb ...

Birmingham school shooting: Teen charged after girl, 17, is killed
MAR 9 2018, 1:36 PM ET
by JON SCHUPPE
... Huffman High School's metal detectors were not in use Wednesday, when 17-year-old Courtlin Arrington was hit by gunfire during afternoon dismissal ... Authorities on Friday charged Michael Jerome Barber, 17, with manslaughter and illegal gun possession for the classroom shooting ...

[BigmanPigman]

1. #ENOUGH

NO GUNS! PERIOD! This teacher says NOT IN MY CLASSROOM!
Enough! National School Walkout
Wednesday, March 14, 10am
For More Information
Hosted by Women’s March and Women’s March Youth
https://www.facebook.com/WomensMarchYouth/
https://www.actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/enough-national-school-walkout
Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods. We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.

Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on their way home from school. Parents have the right to send their kids to school in the mornings and see them home alive at the end of the day.

We are not safe at school. We are not safe in our cities and towns. Congress must take meaningful action to keep us safe and pass federal gun reform legislation that addresses the public health crisis of gun violence. We want Congress to pay attention and take note: many of us will vote this November and many others will join in 2020. Join us in saying #ENOUGH!
https://m.facebook.com/hashtag/nationalschoolwalkout

Check out your local events...
Update: 29 elementary through high schools will walk out for 17 minutes on Wednesday to protest gun violence in San Diego, CA alone. The school board is even endorsing it as a "teachable lesson". Major colleges and universities are also walking out (UCSD, SDSU, USC,