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2013/09/29 09:47:06
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
A 9-year-old boy who made his first court appearance on school weapons charges was sentenced to home confinement Friday.
School officials said the boy brought multiple weapons to his elementary school in Hunter's Creek Wednesday.
An officer searched the student's bag and found an unloaded handgun, a magazine with six bullets inside, a steak knife and small-handled sledge hammer.
The guns came from his father's home, officials said.
A judge ordered the boy to home confinement and said his parents need to keep any and all weapons away from him.
The boy's father said he was playing a character he learned from the video game Minecraft.
"They use hammers to dig and knives and guns to protect themselves from zombies," the boy's father said.
Officials at Endeavor Elementary School on Balcombe Road said the 9-year-old boy told three friends before school that he had the weapons. Those three reported the information to a school resource officer, who found the student and isolated him from others in the school.
School officials said all protocols were followed, and authorities were called in to investigate.
The boy was charged with possession of a firearm on school grounds, possession of a concealed weapon and possession of a firearm by a minor.
No injuries were reported.
The boy was so tiny that his detention uniform engulfed him and he could barely see the judge over the podium Friday.
"I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I couldn't believe it," said the boy's father.
The father said his son was just acting out the game.
He believes the gun could never have been fired.
"Well, the gun was stored in a drawer but the firing pin component had been removed," the boy's father said.
So... this is a thing...
2013/09/29 09:54:57
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
Desperation from the NRA - they'll blame anybody or anything for guns in school.
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2013/09/29 10:11:53
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Desperation from the NRA - they'll blame anybody or anything for guns in school.
*scans story again*
NRA? Didn't see any mention of that.
I'm just practicing the time honoured tradition of leaping to conclusions without possessing the facts!
I will say I'm glad nobody was harmed. School should be a safe place of rubbish lessons, playing sports in a thunderstorm, and cheap cider being passed around!
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
2013/09/29 10:18:22
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Desperation from the NRA - they'll blame anybody or anything for guns in school.
*scans story again*
NRA? Didn't see any mention of that.
I'm just practicing the time honoured tradition of leaping to conclusions without possessing the facts!
I will say I'm glad nobody was harmed. School should be a safe place of rubbish lessons, playing sports in a thunderstorm, and cheap cider being passed around!
Ahh! Well, then good job sir!
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0007/09/29 12:53:55
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
There are some Minecraft mods that include craftable guns, but the vanilla MC has no guns whatsoever; neither does it have hammers.
Now, if the kid brought a stone pickaxe and a diamond sword into school then yeah, MC could have played a small part in it.
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Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2013/09/29 12:54:43
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
BS.
His dad is talking out of his arse, that said at least he had the foresight to make the gun safe.
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2013/09/29 16:20:39
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
The dilemma is there is no point locking up firearms if they are needed for home defence. If someone invades your home you need a gun at hand right away.
hotsauceman1 wrote: How long until Dakka Dakka defends the kids right to bring a gun to his school willy nily?
No.
How long until we blame the kid's father for clearly not locking up a firearm? Thus the victim is blamed.
Without the firing pin, that hammer in his back pack was a better tool to set that ammunition off then the handgun was. While his father didn't "secure" the weapon in a traditional sense, he made sure it was safe.
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Kilkrazy wrote: The dilemma is there is no point locking up firearms if they are needed for home defence. If someone invades your home you need a gun at hand right away.
Which is why I've never been a fan of the idea of removing firing pins. Unless you're a pure master at handling fire arms, your ability to re-install that pin in a self defense situation will most likely fall in the realms of failure. A locked up handgun would be a better option.
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2013/09/29 19:48:21
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
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Kilkrazy wrote: The dilemma is there is no point locking up firearms if they are needed for home defence. If someone invades your home you need a gun at hand right away.
Indeed, but there are ways to put a weapon where it is out of reach of children and still easily accessible.
On top of a wardrobe or other inaccessible place to the vertically challenged. And then there are combination locks.
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2013/09/29 19:55:44
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
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Elect me Senator, and I shall endeavor to have the "Bitch-slap" be an official form of punishment for certain low level crimes.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Kilkrazy wrote: The dilemma is there is no point locking up firearms if they are needed for home defence. If someone invades your home you need a gun at hand right away.
Disagree. It takes me about 4 seconds to open my safe by my bed.
Taking out the firing pin as a "safety measure" isn't a better choice than properly storing your firearm.
2013/09/29 23:16:57
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
I agree, with cincydooley. If you have your code and memory movements memorized it can take even under 2 seconds to put in a code. It takes me a second for my pin numbers, add few seconds to get to that safe you can get a gun in a few moments.
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2013/09/30 00:52:35
Subject: Re:Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
feeder wrote: Frazz's mind is like a wiener dog in a rabbit warren. Dark, twisting tunnels, and full of the certainty that just around the next bend will be the quarry he seeks.
2013/09/30 01:13:47
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
hotsauceman1 wrote: What if it is a machete wielding maniac and cuts on of your hands off?
I'm not sure; guess I'd be pretty stumped.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2013/09/30 01:20:17
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
I'd much prefer it if he gave me back my original one.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2013/09/30 01:25:43
Subject: Minecraft to Blame For 9-Year Old Bringing Gun To Class
feeder wrote: Frazz's mind is like a wiener dog in a rabbit warren. Dark, twisting tunnels, and full of the certainty that just around the next bend will be the quarry he seeks.
just bows and arrows.
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