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In reply to the discussion: A terrible precedent is being set with guns in public places... [View all]Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)they thought the bb guns were real guns (when they had the lockdown, they thought they were real guns and later found them to be bb's), but a kid (a nephew of a man who sometimes who care takes my animals when I am gone) out at my farm was walking around with what I thought was a rifle. He explained that it was a bb rifle. It looked like a real rifle to me from far away. But what do I know? I bought a sniper paintball rifle to scare coyotes away, and it looks like a real rifle to me, again, for people not familiar with firearms, they all look alike. I am clearly one of these people, and am clearly not alone.
In the case of the school, it was not the school personnel, but neighbors seeing these guys walking toward the school who called the police (at least this is what I heard from another parent). I think that the schools must have adopted the better safe than sorry system of any police calls in the area with possible firearms begins the lockdown process. I don't know, just my guess.
Thanks for the sympathy. I send you mine. The trouble is when we are fearful, it is easy to overreact.