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http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/18/school-insanity-alert-cops-called-becaus
And, do you feel this is as deserving of punishment as the kids who made the rape joke photo in the other thread?
Now I imagine many, if not most, writers here will feel some sort of consequence is called for in this situation so the question is do you feel a lengthy suspension and an expulsion is the right call?News sources disagree on the timeline. WISN reports that a school official checked the car, noticed the knives, and then called police; TMJ 4 claims that the police were called to the school because of the smoking incident and then discovered the weapons after searching the car. The latter account makes the authorities look worse since it establishes the act of smoking, rather than the discovery of knives, as the impetus for calling the police.
I contacted both the police and the school to clear up the confusion and learn more about what happened—neither office responded immediately.
Regardless of which way it went down, Chiers is now facing two criminal charges for bringing weapons onto school grounds. He has also been suspended and will likely be expelled, in keeping with the school's zero tolerance policies.
It's not even a possibility that Chiers was actually a danger to the school: police and district officials questioned him and all agreed that this is simply a kid who likes hunting. He said he was storing the rifle for a friend and was planning a trip to the shooting range. Nobody disputes that. He shouldn't have been smoking, and he shouldn't have stored his hunting gear in his car, but that's all he did wrong.
And, do you feel this is as deserving of punishment as the kids who made the rape joke photo in the other thread?