Tag Archives: gun scare

A Colorado man claiming to be a stand-up comedian was arrested after he allegedly pointed a loaded banana at police officers, which evidently caused them to fear for their lives.  [1] The absurd incident occurred on Saturday in Grand Junction. Police approached 28-year-old Nathen Channing after they spotted him walking down the sidewalk waving around a “yellow object.”  According to ...

A Ridiculously Huge Display of Force… All of that Just for an Umbrella! The University of San Marcos in California went on lockdown after someone mistook a man carrying an umbrella for a rifle which caused a campus-wide gun scare. [1]  Students were ordered to take shelter in the morning after the San Diego County Sheriff’s department got a call ...

A Tragedy Caused by Media Backed Irrational Gun Scare, Incompetent Police and Oversensitive 911 Callers A young man going by the name of John Crawford III died on August 5 2014 after Beavercreek police responded to reports of an armed man at a Dayton-area Walmart. Crawford was not armed — he had a pellet gun with him, which he had ...

Irrational Gun Scare and Snitch Teachers – The Rising Though Police in Schools While the mass-media fueled country-wide gun scare continues, yet another student has been suspended for having something that represents a gun but isn’t, actually, anything like a real gun.  A high school student in Florence said he has been suspended because of a picture of a gun. ...

Complete Lunacy over a Key Chain – Teachers & School Officials Now Have Even Less Judgment than the Kids A public school in Coventry, Rhode Island, suspended a 12 year old student from school for three days after he brought in a small, gun-shaped keychain that he’d won at an amusement park. His problemes started  after a gun keychain — ...

Two Virginia middle school students were given long-term suspensions in a unanimous decision Tuesday morning after shooting airsoft guns near one of the students’ homes.  Seventh graders Aidan Clark and Khalid Caraballo are suspended until June of next year, and may face being expelled altogether, WAVY reported. The children were suspended for possession, handling and use of a firearm.  Caraballo ...