In the state of Indiana, the law has mandated that no firearms be allowed on school grounds, establishing the crime of toting a gun to a place of education as a felony. However, Governor Pearce recently signed a bill into law that will tweak that rule once it goes into effect in July. SB 229 will allow firearms on school grounds, with conditions. Firearms are only to be allowed … [Read more...]
We've heard some ridiculous incidents with children getting in trouble due to their school's "zero tolerance" policies, but this news story tops most of those. According to a report earlier this week, a thirteen-year-old student found himself in hot water at Glen Meadow Middle School in Vernon Township, NJ. Allegedly, Ethan Chaplin, a seventh grade student at the junior … [Read more...]
One April Fools' prankster found herself in serious trouble after her ill-conceived prank against her daughter went awry. According to a news report, Angela Timmons worked on a college campus in South Carolina. She and her daughter have a long standing tradition of catching each other with fun pranks each year. This year, Timmons devised what she thought to be a surefire … [Read more...]
Colorado experienced another school shooting recently in the town of Centennial. Reportedly, eighteen-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson was "set off" by a teacher kicking him off of his school's—Arapahoe High School (only eight miles away from Columbine—speech and debate team. Pierson allegedly targeted the teacher who had pulled him from the team. Reports place Pierson at the … [Read more...]
From the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, to the more recent tragedy at Sandy Hook, school shootings have stoked the subject of campus concealed carry into even more heated debate. The polarizing issue seems to have two main responses: Some react with a call for tighter restrictions on firearms and tougher measures to keep guns off school grounds. The other response, in the … [Read more...]
