Houston: Child brought gun to elem, school

[WildBill]

It was probably more of a fearful overreaction. "My kid was shot and they didn't even call an ambulance!" makes a sympathetic cry.

Most people will go overboard when it comes to these types of things. I don't know if they have school nurses. Some how I doubt it.

[74novaman]

The father of the child who brought the gun to school doesn't know how the boy got the gun.

Marquis Sanders, Marquell’s father, said his son lives with his mother and he's not sure how the kindergartner got the gun. "I never thought me or my son would be involved in something like this," he said.

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I believe him! Don't you?

I have no reason not to believe him.

Yep, you know those guns. The hide in the bushes and when they see a kid walking by, run out and jump into their backpack! Then they fire when they're dropped so they can try to kill kids, those evil, evil objects. They must have been forged in the fires of Mt Doom, deep in Mordor by Sauron himself. (I reread the lord of the rings last week, my apologies)

[WildBill]

Has anyone else noticed the overreaction from the school. One shot hit the ground and kicked up fragments which resulted in scratches to the kids' legs. So they were each transported by an ambulance to the hospital to be treated for these scratches.

Doesn't Houstin ISD pay for school nurses anymore? Can't an EMT put a band-aid on a scratch without transporting anymore? Something in this story is not adding up, besides the gun firing when it was dropped from half the normal height (a six year old can't be much taller than half an adult's height, can he?).

It couldn't be that a teacher or another student picked it up and "it went off".

[TexasAggie09]

I'm awaiting the lawsuit against the school from parents saying the school was at fault for not providing a gun safety course in school

[zero4o3]

The father of the child who brought the gun to school doesn't know how the boy got the gun.

Marquis Sanders, Marquell’s father, said his son lives with his mother and he's not sure how the kindergartner got the gun. "I never thought me or my son would be involved in something like this," he said.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/lo ... f=obinsite" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I believe him! Don't you?

I have no reason not to believe him.

Yep, you know those guns. The hide in the bushes and when they see a kid walking by, run out and jump into their backpack! Then they fire when they're dropped so they can try to kill kids, those evil, evil objects. They must have been forged in the fires of Mt Doom, deep in Mordor by Sauron himself. (I reread the lord of the rings last week, my apologies)

the son does not live with the father, so the father not knowing how he got the gun is plausable,

[glbedd53]

This Jennings and Davis bashing is wearing a little thin. They are both capable buffalo guns.

[RPB]

comments on this across the country are so different in different locales.


I just added on one

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gun in a "gun-free-zone"????

So easy a child can do it.

Can 6-year olds not read the sign which prevents guns there?

Teacher should be accountable for not teaching the kid to read.

Non-students who are armed robbers or have other evil intent on college campuses probably can't read either.

Perhaps we need a bill passed to help dyslexics.

[zero4o3]

comments on this across the country are so different in different locales.


I just added on one

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gun in a "gun-free-zone"????

So easy a child can do it.

Can 6-year olds not read the sign which prevents guns there?

Teacher should be accountable for not teaching the kid to read.

Non-students who are armed robbers or have other evil intent on college campuses probably can't read either.


Perhaps we need a bill passed to help dyslexics.

im dslexisc

[WildBill]

This Jennings and Davis bashing is wearing a little thin. They are both capable buffalo guns.

Maybe capable, but they are hard to fit in a backpack.

[zero4o3]

This Jennings and Davis bashing is wearing a little thin. They are both capable buffalo guns.

Maybe capable, but they are hard to fit in a backpack.

could explain why it fell out?

[chasfm11]

Another possibility is that the kid felt it dropping out of the backpack and grabbed for it. We know where that can lead.

It would be interesting and I hope that LEOs know the answer to a couple of key questions.

1. The kid did or did not know that the gun was in the backpack. Like another speculator, I suspect that someone else put it there to put it out of range of a search. Even if the kid did know it was there, it could still have been put there by an older friend or relative.
2. Are there any suspected gang members living in the same residence as the kid with the backpack? That could very well answer the source of the gun and how the kid got it. We all know that gang members purchase their guns using the required background check so it out to be easy to find out who originally bought it (Not!)

[WildBill]

Another possibility is that the kid felt it dropping out of the backpack and grabbed for it. We know where that can lead.

It would be interesting and I hope that LEOs know the answer to a couple of key questions.

1. The kid did or did not know that the gun was in the backpack. Like another speculator, I suspect that someone else put it there to put it out of range of a search. Even if the kid did know it was there, it could still have been put there by an older friend or relative.
2. Are there any suspected gang members living in the same residence as the kid with the backpack? That could very well answer the source of the gun and how the kid got it.

All of these are plausible explanations. I am sure that with some more investigation they will get to the bottom of it.

[alvins]

am i the only one who thinks its really over dramatic that parents are running to school to pick up their kids, their crying and hugging like the whole school got shot up?

[RPB]

This Jennings and Davis bashing is wearing a little thin. They are both capable buffalo guns.

Well ok, but buffalo rarely drop them when they carry them.


(Sorry, couldn't resist) ... I mean the cheaply made pre-Saturday night special ban pot metal guns I used to see at gun shows, may be other brands.

[Middle Age Russ]

Saw report on ABC13 this AM where they interview classmates. One said they were all looking at it and it started to fall and the kid tried to catch it and he "shot the girl". Doesn't sound like impact caused it, more like booger-hook misplacement.

Sad and scarey.

Trust me WildBill. The school nurse and/or admin would call ambulances for something like this without blinking an eye. While the district may be "immune to lawsuit", the individuals involved are not. Scarey world.!