Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation
Wisconsin police shot and killed a student who officials say came to a local middle school with a gun. The student never got into the school, but as a precaution the entire district was put on a lockdown late Wednesday morning.
Students have since been reunited with their parents, some of whom waited up to five hours for their children to be dropped at a bus storage center in Mount Horeb, a village about 20 miles south-west of Madison, the state capital, according to WMTV 15 news.
No other students or staff were injured in the shooting, Josh Kaul, Wisconsin’s attorney general, said during a Wednesday news conference.
The kid just had a gun and didn’t shoot it or anything…? Was there no intent to do a “shooting”?
Not a ton more detail, but it sounds like a kid has a visible gun that some students reported seeing. Then they tried to enter the school, but the school had a video doorbell/door buzzer type setup. There were five or so shots in quick succession that must’ve included officers.
Have to wait on more info, but it sounds like at worst they failed to deescalate. At best they showed up and the kid started shooting and they returned fire.
No innocent kids died, so that’s a win in my book.
While it’s good news not to have a fresh school shooting, how hard is it to detain a middle schooler without murdering them…?
A tragedy of firearms is it makes children just as dangerous as anyone else. If the child was using the gun, they were the most dangerous person in the school.
The firearm is called the great equalizer for a reason.
This was still a school shooting. Justified or not, a child was still murdered.
You must be confused about the definition of murder.
Here’s a hint: if it’s a justified shooting, it’s not murder. Murder requires premeditation.
If the child shot or even aimed at police, the police shoot back. That’s how it works in this country.
Should be any country. Cops deserve to go home to their family too
Here is the question though. Does this rule apply to just them? Does it apply to others with respect to them?
If not, how do you deal with the police abusing the power this gives them?
If yes, how do you avoid constant bloodbaths of people shooting each other because they all had guns?
Seems like dishonest questions from you here. You responded as if I implied scenario that solves all problems ever in policing because you jumped right at it with some “well what about …” comments.
At the heart of what I am saying is cops have families and deserve safety like any other worker. I would expect anyone with a job who goes into dangerous situations are kept safe. Cops are unique in that their safety is threatened by other people. There are so many problems with police, right now this “on killing” attitude that infected police forces needs to be purged. Doesn’t negate what I said though.
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So all he did was illegally have a fire arm and he was executed for it and that’s a win in your book? Sick fuck
It’s not clear if possession of a firearm on school grounds was his only offense.
Maybe don’t jump to conclusions before all the facts are known.
Something else happened, kids bring guns to schools all the time and don’t get caught if they don’t flash them around. It’s gotten to the point where some schools have metal detectors at the entrances.
That’s a wild thing to say
Depends how you think about it. Out in the more rural parts of America there’s gun safety education and target practice shooting where guns are provided to kids under supervision for extra circular activities and no one even questions it. Those are generally not the schools that make the news though. All provided within the public education sector and at schools.
Yes, if your an American your taxes may have supported teaching some country kid out in the Appalachian Mountains how to hunt with a gun, it’s not very uncommon. You have to take the good with the bad. How does the saying go " I would rather let 99 murderers go free than convict one innocent person".
Shortly after Columbine, my school banned backpacks and if you brought a lunch box to school, they would want to search it.
Don’t bring guns to school, kids. If the staff have to choose between their establishment potentially becoming the next Columbine or Uvalde, and filling the chest of someone who really didn’t mean any harm up with 80 pounds of lead, they’re going to choose the later, without hesitation
Hey, here’s an idea; keep firearms out of the reach of children?
People are stupid so I prefer to drum out the idiocy with better, not necessarily stricter, gun laws. The less dumb people with guns, the less kids are likely to get ahold of them.
Cool, when you evolve past the 18th century you’ll find “stricter” works everywhere else
In the meantime enjoy your medieval shitehole 😂
Stricter can also mean smarter. Just like you probably bitch about shitty drivers and wonder why they have a license, I feel more intelligent testing should be required for firearms.
Be harsher on safety. Maybe provide free small arms gun cases after passing actual firearm classes and certs. Amongst others. NOT stricter as in take away rights. Stricter as in make the fools earn it, whereas the rest of us who are not idiots and leave shit like that out or easily accessible without some form of key would easily pass and secure that right. If done correctly the people most impacted would be the same ones most likely to be dumbasses in the first place.
Anyway, I’m rather neutral on the subject and am mostly idea dumping. So whatever.
I don’t bitch about shitty drivers because in my country, the driving test is strict, it doesn’t involve simply driving up to the drive-thru and verbally abusing another human being 😂
So what you’re implying is intelligent and stricter testing has created drivers who you don’t have to complain about. Is that right?
someone who really didn’t mean any harm up
That doesn’t generally fit the description of someone who intentionally takes a gun to school.
American news is very american today
Heroic: Cop stops school shooting by shooting kid himself
