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So I can top the tweeting tourist that got arrested.
12 year old boy brings a pocket knife and pellet gun to school
He's arrested and put into juvenile detention for making terroristic threats only he didn't threaten anyone.
If the kid had a "hit list" in his locker (yes this happened in a city I used to live in), then I could see terroristic threats.
However, bringing a gun or a knife to school to show your friends isn't terroristic. Stupid, yes. Worthy of punishment, hell yes. Terrorist? Not in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Memphis1979
We all used to bring our shotguns to school on opening day of Dove season, so we could hit the fields as soon as school let out.
If you took shop, Coach would let you out of class early.
Now you can't even bring a gun close to school.
Same here...I carried a Buck knife in a case on my side that I got for my 8th B-Day to school everyday after that all the way through to graduation and never had a single school official so much as mention it...in HS I carried rifles in a gun rack in my truck's rear window so I could shoot after school with other guys...never had a school official say a word.
I would be in Gitmo for it now.
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Originally Posted by 11thHour
This country has flushed itself in the name stopping terrorism. It's populated by scared, timid sheep. How sad.
Yep and it's only going to get MUCH worse with NDAA and the unPatriot act still rolling good.
This country is a sorry mess for the average person or good 'ol boy anymore.
The Texas Penal Code classification of a "terroristic threat," has little or nothing to do with what we call a terrorist today. The law was first passed in 1973 and has been amended several times. In it's current form, it reads thusly:
§ 22.07. TERRORISTIC THREAT. (a) A person commits an
offense if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to
any person or property with intent to:
(1) cause a reaction of any type to his threat by an
official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies;
(2) place any person in fear of imminent serious
bodily injury;
(3) prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a
building, room, place of assembly, place to which the public has
access, place of employment or occupation, aircraft, automobile, or
other form of conveyance, or other public place;
(4) cause impairment or interruption of public
communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power
supply or other public service;
(5) place the public or a substantial group of the
public in fear of serious bodily injury; or
(6) influence the conduct or activities of a branch or
agency of the federal government, the state, or a political
subdivision of the state.
Simply by showing those weapons, the boy likely violated sections 2,4 and 5. Moreover, brandishing a weapon is a crime in Texas. He's actually fortunate that they did not charge him with felony assault, which is usually the charge when a weapon has been brandished, even for a minor.
Additionally, Texas schools are weapons free zones with no tolerance. At 12 years of age, he could reasonably be expected to know and understand that.
The crime he's charged with is a Class B Misdemeanor. He is not going to jail, but he IS going to learn a very valuable lesson about abiding by the law. So is everyone else familiar with the case.
We may agree or disagree with the charge, but the County Attorney is well within the law on this one. Yes, we weren't subject to such things when we were kids (if you're as old as I am), but this ain't your fathers schoolhouse any more.
If I was growing up today I would be doing life. thank God it was the 50's
Amen to that. Our children would have been taken from us as well.
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