Girl, 12, caught with pellet gun at Longview school
LONGVIEW, Wash. – A 12-year-old girl faces expulsion from a Longview middle school after she brought a pellet gun to school on Monday, a school district spokeswoman said.
The girl showed the air gun to one of her classmates at Monticello Middle School just before 2 p.m.
The classmate immediately reported the gun to a teacher.
No one was hurt, and the gun was not used to threaten any students, according to Longview School District spokeswoman Sandy Catt.
The teacher confiscated the air gun and a separate bag of pellets, Catt said. The girl was taken to the principal’s office and police were called.
The student will likely be expelled from school, Catt said.
The principal will send out a message to parents explaining the situation.
I wonder which school in the USA will be the first to install metal detectors at all the entrances.
 @jpk ~ I think there are at least a few cities that already have them; Baltimore, MD sticks in my mind...and either the Bronx or Brooklyn in NYC... I remembering this from a while back, but I'm sure the info is there somewhere on the "net... Â
Good grief!
@jpk Watch the "war on kids" documentary. It's about schools that have gone to such extreme security measures that it's actually like a prison. They illegally search kids assuming they are all guilty of something, and very disturbing to watch.
I think that the student must have known, especially with all of the shootings going on, that it was not such a bright idea to bring a weapon to school. I am thinking she may have wanted attention or early vacation. The fact that it was a pellet gun, even though a pellet gun can be a dangerous weapon, she figured not too much would happen to her as far as punishment.
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I think you are right on the money. I'll bet she has done more than a little fantasizing about the celebrity attention she thought this would bring her. Immediate expulsion and grounding her until everyone forgets about it would be her best punishment.
...and some guy in Fred Meyer was searched for having cardboard. The cops and the teachers did the right thing but the fact is, the only reason either of these are news stories is because soccer moms who aren't high on Zoloft are freaking out about any and all things that remind them of guns, and the media knows it.
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Kids should not be bringing pellet guns to school. We all know this. When I was in the first grade I went to Metropolitan Learning Center on Couch Street... this was 1975ish... my friend John carried a Boy Scout knife and our friend Saul carried a Zippo lighter. These were real but the teachers didn't know about them. I got in a fight with a kid who had half of the shell of a green plastic squirt pistol. My dad said that's okay because that's what you get for telling somebody you're pointing a gun at them.
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NOW, not only would have been some weird reverse-911, lockdown, helicopters deployed, media vans and hot newscasters checking their makeup before going on air live from the parking lot to interview school kids... they STILL wouldn't have known about John's Boy Scout knife or Saul's Zippo.
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When I was in High School, many of us brought our guns to school on a regular basis because we planned to go hunting after hours. There was never ever any issue about it. In fact, many teachers enjoyed seeing some of the fine firearms and some had guns of their own. But then, we lived in a community that taught God, belief in a hereafter, and accountability for our actions while in this life. Since we all desired a better hereafter we minded our P's and Q's so to speak. Crime in town was virtually nill. Take away, God, guns, and parental control and look what you have today.
However, parents these days are "Too busy" with their own desires to even spend "Quality time" with the kids. Plus, many feel that going to church is too much a "hassle" and anyway, it's all "Fake".....
"The classmate immediately reported the gun to a teacher."
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Doesn't she know snitches get stitches? Never too early to learn street justice...
 @zenpractice The classmate did the right thing. What would you have done? The wrong thing? Get your head on straight, fool.
@Old29 @zenpractice It was a pellet gun. There's more danger from getting stung by a torqued wasp on a hot summer day. Let's keep things in perspective.
 @Old29 I was just kidding. Of course she did the right thing. I was making fun of gang banger mentality. Sorry, my dorkiness wasn't more evident.
This stuff happens all the time, it just never makes the news.
I can't wait until KATU reports the dropping of a cigarette butt
onto the sidewalk as "breaking news". That's next.
Are they doing it on purpose now? Â What are these kids thinking?
 @DeAnna Anderson They aren't thinking
oh my god not a pellet gun. please mr. news man give us a brake!
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 @HarryJuku  @Scotty They should ban BB guns immediately.  Eyes could be put out.Â
 @HarryJuku  @Scotty Actually many pellet guns can be as almost as powerful as a 22. If it is CO2 powered it is less then say a good pump pellet gun but still can go through skin. In either case it should be treated seriously because it could do great harm to someone. If say shot in the eye it could make it all the way into the brain or in the neck into the artery bleeding them out. Certainly not going to take down a school with one but its not a toy like a squirt gun.
 @HarryJuku  @ScottyI think most of Harry's anti gun comments are completely crazy but this one is on target...pun intended...
 @HarryJuku  @Scotty If a student brings a butter knife to school, should the school ho into "lockdown" too?
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This is getting ridiculous.
 @Mipsfer  @HarryJuku  @Scotty Your statement is ridiculous. Reductio ad absurdum.
She wanted to get kicked out of school?
Absolutely no reason this should be news beyond the school and parents
talk about katu trying desperately to make a mountain out of a mole hill
 @kramr FEAR is selling right now and the media is taking full advantage of it.
 @kramr Or someone at KATU really doesn't like Longview and they are trying to get as many stories as possible in the news about that city.
Stupid is as stupid does! Don't these people even read the news about what happens when someone else does this?
interesting though, this was a "Female" Student.That is a rare instance.
 @lee986321 Why did you put "female" in quotation marks? Is she not really a female?
This School is right next to RA long it could have been an older student giving it to her.
Jeesh....that's all I have to say.
This is what happens when the media sensationalizes the real tragedies
DHS will probably come after the parents because their daughter isn't in school.
No doubt she went to Walmart, bought and took it to the school. Wait, no, probably dad is home drunk on his butt, mom is eating deep fried chicken and on facebook and no one has time for the damn kid because she is now an adult at 12, right mommy and daddy. Don't ban guns, don't ban bullets, give people a test prior to having children and if they don't pass they get, shall we say "fixed"!
 @yabadabadone Sounds like a house full of Obama supporters.
 @nostromo  @yabadabadone Grow up. Stop making foolish comments.
 @yabadabadone Um, one has to be 16 to legally purchase an Air Gun, Don't you know the laws? Also pellets are more harmful then BB's even though both can kill if targeted in the right areas.
 @lee986321 Um, lee986321, if you're going to use such a smug, sanctimonious tone when you write, you really should learn proper punctuation and spelling. Put a period after "air gun," not a comma, and don't capitalize words that aren't proper nouns. And when you compare something, use "than" not "then."Â
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@2C7D6152 Calm down.
I have no issue with the kid having a pellet gun but come on parents....you have to let them know the consequences of taking guns (even pellet guns) to school are serious, very serious. Bad parenting.
 @oh4FS Ya my dad apparently caused problems with his BB gun as a kid so I never got one. Instead I got my first gun a 30-06 for deer hunting at age 12. Dad new I was smart enough to not use that around home causing trouble with neighbors windows etc. Also never got a mini-bike because he broke his leg on one as a kid but he did not let me get a Harley at age 12 damn that would have been nice:)
 @oh4FS Different times. I can't think of how many times I went to school with my rifle on/in the rack of my truck. On school grounds no less. No one would have even thought of taking it, much less of WHY it was there!