A first-grader and his brother in kindergarten took two handguns, one of them loaded, on a bus to a Kentucky elementary school Thursday morning after apparently thinking they were toys, authorities said. They said no one was hurt and the firearms were seized when the boys reached school.
The boys, ages 6 and 7, had a gun each in their school backpacks and showed them to some other pupils on a bus headed to Dewitt Elementary School in Flat Lick, said Kentucky State Police Trooper Shane Jacobs. He said one student alerted a teacher and the eastern Kentucky school was briefly locked down and the guns were confiscated.
"We never felt that the kids' intent was to hurt anyone at the school," Jacobs said by phone. "We feel the kids didn't know that they were actually a firearm. They thought they were toy guns."
Even though the children did not seem to know better each was charged with possession of a firearm on school property.
The parents have also been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, and even the school bus driver was charged, because he knew about the weapons and did not contact the school.
Obviously this could have been so much worse.
You can bet the NRA won't comment on this story at all. They don't give a damn if kids get loaded weapons and bring them to school.
ReplyDeleteThe NRA supporters, like Palin,Nugent, Ted Cruz, and Steve King have ZERO common sense on this issue.
All they know is that the gummint is bad, 2nd amendment is good, and all parents should have as many loaded guns around as possible.
If Tripp gets shot some day with one of Dakota's guns, it will not surprise me at all.
Even if that happened , $arah would never condemn the NRA or her pedo draft dodger buddy Nugent, she'd just say, "boys will be boys", right Todd?
Why wouldn't they think they're toys? One of them is pink for fuck's sake! The least these ammosexuals can do is keep these weapons locked up so their kids can't accidentally hurt our kids.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the parents were charged. I hope they spend some very uncomfortable time before a judge.
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PS. Does the photo above show Sarah Palin with the decorated pink assault weapon or is that Bristol? if it's Sarah, it sure does not look much like her.
It's her. Just different glasses and hair is brushed flat.
DeleteThe arthritic looking left hand is in bad shape.
Delete4:23 AM I so agree with you! Have always thought the photo was NOT actually Sarah Palin. Could it be Piper?
DeleteWhoever it is, it sure looks photoshopped.
DeleteAh, Kentucky - intellectual capitol of the squirrel meat belt. Where kiddies can access candy apple tangerine flake 9mm autoloaders while being safely protected from candy cigarettes. Just makes me proud to be American.
ReplyDelete"...the school bus driver was charged, because he knew about the weapons and did not contact the school."
ReplyDeleteThis guy knew a 6 and 7 year-old had guns and didn't take them AWAY!!!! Yikes.
Well I am shocked! Shocked! Why is sister sarry in a household where they sit on a half-assed replica of the American flag? I personally think the flag should be a symbol of national passions -- flown, wrapping service coffins, burned, sat upon, etc. But the sister sarry ilk want it deified, hence my shock, shock I tell you, at seeing her butt so near a replica.
ReplyDeleteFlat Lick, Kentucky. I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteLiving in a university town in rural New England, I can't even imagine living in a red state. Geezaloo, it must be like a third world country.
ReplyDeleteIt is beginning to sound trite, but really this is Kentucky. What did you expect?
ReplyDeleteOne kid in kindergarten and another in first grade? I head banjos!
DeleteIsn't that the cutest - pink for Mom and black for Dad :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what is wrong with these parents? It must have been awful easy for the kids to find these "toys" and it appears that the parents never even missed them!
I'm so glad no one was shot by accident while the kids were sharing their toys with their friends!
Who keeps their dildo on the mantle? Does anyone edit this crap?
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