Not Exactly June Cleaver
The Pensacola News Journal has a fashion tip for mothers picking up their children at school: Trench coat, guns, knife
A woman wearing a trench coat outside Gulf Breeze High School was arrested Monday after police found she had brought two guns and a knife to campus.
Judy Hall’s arrest came on the 10-year anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings that left 12 students and a teacher dead in suburban Denver. The two students who carried out the massacre were dressed in trench coats.
Police are not sure why Hall, 61, brought the guns to campus on the anniversary of the Columbine shootings.
“The mother did not identify that she was trying to make a connection to Columbine,” Gulf Breeze Police Chief Peter Paulding said. “But it did involve a trench coat and guns, and this is the 10th anniversary.”
Hall of Finch Drive in Gulf Breeze was booked into Santa Rosa County Jail on Monday on charges of carrying a concealed gun, bringing a gun to a school, and resisting arrest without violence. She still was in custody Monday night.
I don’t remember June packing heat to pick up Wally, even if he was with Eddie Haskell. Well, it was only 77° yesterday with a few clouds, so she probably thought a rain coat was necessary, and she did bring two guns, so maybe it was going to be a parent/child bonding experience.
There are still people who wonder why the St. Petersburg Times has a separate section called: Bizarre Florida.
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And there are some people who think Carl Hiassen writes fiction. Heh.
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We have some very weird people around here. My Mother manages some apartments for a friend, and there is one place that is known as Chattahoochee East, because for the last decade the people who have rented that apartment had their mail forwarded to the state mental facility of the same name.
She reminds people when their rent is due, and to take their meds.
“… and she did bring two guns, so maybe it was going to be a parent/child bonding experience.”
My father, in his role as a middle school counselor, once disarmed a severely disturbed student who concealed a gun in her coat, intending to kill the principal. Dad recognized the image of the gun under the coat. In those days, possibly 40 years ago, the incident was thought unusual. Today? I wonder.
It is a sad commentary on our society that teachers, counselors and administrators in schools need self-defense skills.
And no one… no one… other than a police officer should be permitted to carry a gun into a school. I don’t remember reading of any constitutionally protected Right to Arm Students. They’re kids; they’re not fully responsible… and they have access to guns at home. That’s a recipe for disaster.
Police officers are the only people permitted to bring guns on K-12 school grounds in Florida, no exceptions even in the gun-addled state of Florida. After Columbine some people attempted to change the law and allow teachers to do it, but the law remains the same.
When I went to school down here, every boy had a pocket knife, but that is illegal now. I’m not sure if they still have drafting/mechanical drawing in school anymore, but there were enough “weapons” in a drafting kit that they have probably been banned. No one has “judgment” anymore, so everything is “zero tolerance”.
No one has “judgment” anymore, so everything is “zero tolerance”.
Bingo!
No one has any common sense either.
The situation in the US is absurd. The only way you can get anything done is by filing a law suit and going to court. People won’t do things because it is right or their job, you have to get a court order to get anything done.
When you want to know why, you are told it is because they are afraid of being sued for doing their job. That’s right – they don’t do their job because they are afraid of being sued, so you have to sue them. This is what passes for logic in the US these days.
Then they turn around and claim we need tort reform because they keep getting sued.
Malpractice insurance is very high. The claim is that we have to have tort reform to prevent people from suing for malpractice, rather than, we need to police doctors to reduce the incidence of malpractice. [BTW, the reason malpractice insurance is so high is because the insurance companies have lost a bundle in the stock market, and have nothing to do with the number of malpractice lawsuits.]
The country has gone insane.