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It was strange to see this thread with the title considering what just happened recently around here on the anniversary of the shooting.
http://www.pnj.com/article/20090420/NEWS01/90420019
http://www.wkrg.com/education/articl...wo_guns/25458/
A woman was arrested today after police found that she brought two guns and a knife to Gulf Breeze High School.
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Judy Hall, 61, of 1100 block of Finch Drive in Gulf Breeze is charged with carrying a concealed weapon, bringing a gun onto a school camps and resisting arrest without violence.
Hall’s arrest comes on the 10-year anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings that left 12 students and a teacher dead. The two students who carried out the massacre were dressed in trench coats.
No one was injured Monday at Gulf Breeze High. Police also had no evidence that Hall was influenced by the anniversary of the Littleton, Colo., school shooting, Gulf Breeze Police Chief Peter Paulding said.
“It is a pretty dramatic situation at Gulf Breeze High School,” Paulding said. “Thank goodness we have the school resource officer on campus. He is attentive and contained the situation.”
Hall was arrested after coming to school this morning to talk with Gulf Breeze school resource officer Kerstan Tatro about an incident that happened at the school Friday that involved her son.
Paulding said the mother was concerned about some students approaching her son and asking if he was going to kill one of them. The chief said the department is looking into whether the incident happened.
Tatro told Hall to meet him in his office after seeing Hall in the school’s parking lot, Gulf Breeze police said.
From his office, Tatro could see Hall put on the trench coat as she talked with her son.
Paulding said it appears as if Hall’s son, a freshman at the school, tried to talk to his mother out what she was doing.
Tatro immediately left his office to confront Hall after seeing her put on the coat, police said.
Tatro approached Hall in the parking lot and the two started to talk.
Hall told the officer that “anyone could walk in the school with a trench coat on and a gun in their pocket and start killing people,” Gulf Breeze police said in a statement.
Police are not sure why Hall decided to take such actions on the campus on the anniversary of the Columbine shootings, Paulding said.
Hall also told the school resource officer that she had a .38 caliber handgun in her pocket, police said.
Tatro found an unloaded gun in the pocket of the coat. The officer also found a folding knife on Hall, police said.
Other officers went to the school to help Tatro, and another gun was found in Hall’s truck, the release said. Police also searched Hall’s home and found two handguns, two rifles and a shotgun.
Paulding said parents have been calling about the safety of the school.
The chief said Tatro took quick and decisive action neutralizing any threat to the school.
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Maybe that's the problem, people see too many movies and get insensitive to real violence. When pictures of war, violence and death win Pulitzer's I am certain that these were taken to show the moments, and to bring awareness to the realities of this world.
Hell, CNN basically televised an entire war, but you can actually count on one hand the actual footage showing casualties, if any.
The whole thing was made to look like a video game and shown on primetime, using camera's on bombs and missiles, you damn well know that someone died there, but it's OK because you did not actually see anyone being blown to shreds. What's my point?, if this footage is good enough to be shown on TV, or all over the web for that matter, it might be a better idea to have it shown in a controlled environment where it can be monitored and discussed. Maybe people will realize how fragile life can be, and if nothing else, to remember the victims of this crime.
I can't see through walls, but I can kick your ass.
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