Houston: Child brought gun to elem, school

[WildBill]

I figured the word vulture covered the shameless part. Have you ever seen one of those buggers eat?

You are right about that part.

[Scott in Houston]

This is why I make sure my 6 year old carries in a good, solid holster like a Comptac Mtac. Her Kahr PM9 has a drop safety too.
What were this kid's parents thinking??
His parents are just not as responsible as we are!

[WolfeJager]

10 bux someone blames the tea party.

[Mr.ViperBoa]

Have you ever noticed that things like this always happen in April?

Check out this link of April history and look at all the stuff that happens

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/april.htm

[Beiruty]

My speculation:
I guess, the real owner of the gun, stored the handgun in his kid backpack when the LEO were around and/or the owner was afraid that LEO would conduct a search. Owner never removed the handgun when the kid went to school. The owner most likely is prohibited from having a firearms.


I doubt that a 6-yr old kid, would be interested in having a gun at school and in his backpack.

[Aggiedad]

"School shooting" my hiney! It was a accidental or negligent discharge NOT someone shooting up the place! Oh, but the media calls it a "shooting" because it "sells" ...

[03Lightningrocks]

Maybe the school was not properly posted. I feel sure the young man would have left his weapon with his bike if he had seen gun buster signs.

I bet everything that the gun went off before it was dropped. Little liars would all immediately claim they didn't pull the trigger. LOL... yeah... it just went off when it hit the ground. There is no predicting what one of those evil guns will do next.

[srothstein]

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?).

[03Lightningrocks]

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?).

I wondered the same. I bet the ambulance chasers are already lining up to file lawsuites.

[RPB]

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?).

I wondered the same. I bet the ambulance chasers are already lining up to file lawsuits.

I bet not ...

No vehicle involved (school is probably immune); guess they might sue someone allowing access to the gun.
I'm not a lawyer, but ... I do know a bit after 25 years researching etc for a Board Certified P.I. atty ... Well, I'll just defer to second paragraph from the bottom as a "general" precept I wouldn't dispute
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Anyone filing a frivolous lawsuit against a school district may end up paying a lot later.

And, that's my layman's opinion, worth every cent paid for it

Most people don't know schools are mostly immune, we used to get a lot of calls about broken legs on unsafe school stairways etc etc etc ...

[03Lightningrocks]

Interesting. I am one of those folks who did not know that schools had immunity from lawsuits. Maybe they won't be lining up.

[MasterOfNone]

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

[WildBill]

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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[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.

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

I believe him! Don't you?

[WildBill]

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.