Gun leads to lockdown at two schools

[Nick]

http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=10328892
FRENCH SETTLEMENT, LA (WAFB) - French Settlement high and elementary schools had to be put on lockdown Friday morning after the high school principal found a loaded gun on campus.

It happened around 7:30am. Principal Lance Lutson says an unregistered white pickup truck in the gym parking lot prompted him to take a closer look. When he looked inside, Hutson says he found a loaded .40 caliber handgun.

The high school and elementary school, which happens to be across the street, were put on lockdown as a precaution. Local law authorities gave the all-clear to re-open both schools around 9:30am, but that did not stop parents from checking their children out of school.

French Settlement Police Chief Harry Brignac says the truck and gun belong to a friend of a high school senior who drove it to school. Authorities believe the student had no idea the gun was in the truck and that the weapon was not intended to harm anyone at the school. The principal says no disciplinary action will be taken.
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bravo to the police chief for being a reasonable person and seeing the actual circumstances.

 

[Quickdraw22]

Why the F was the principal digging through the guys truck??

 

[Nick]

Why the F was the principal digging through the guys truck??

I'm giving benefit of the doubt, suspicious truck without school parking permit, looks through window and spots gun? Then again, I guess at that point the student should have known.... hmmm.......

 

[kz45]

Two days, two gun related incidents right here at home

 

[TDH]

Why the F was the principal digging through the guys truck??

I'll preface this by saying I didn't go to school in Louisiana, but when we decided to drive to school we had to have a parking permit. In order to get the permit we had to sign a release that said they could search our vehicle at any time without cause.

Our parents might have had to sign it too but I honestly don't remember.

Not sure how things are handled here. I know they used to walk drug dogs through the parking lot to catch people with drugs in cars.

 

[Quickdraw22]

I'm giving benefit of the doubt, suspicious truck without school parking permit, looks through window and spots gun? Then again, I guess at that point the student should have known.... hmmm.......

Here's how I see it........


"Authorities believe the student had no idea the gun was in the truck"

-Okay, so you're telling me the kid who DROVE THE TRUCK TO SCHOOL didn't know there was a gun in it? If he truly didn't know the gun was there (hidden), then how the hell did the principal "magically" find it while looking through the window??

I'm glad the kid didn't get charged, but that gives the principal no right to play Officer Barbrady at the school.

DAVE

 

[XD-GEM]

I'll preface this by saying I didn't go to school in Louisiana, but when we decided to drive to school we had to have a parking permit. In order to get the permit we had to sign a release that said they could search our vehicle at any time without cause.

Our parents might have had to sign it too but I honestly don't remember.

Not sure how things are handled here. I know they used to walk drug dogs through the parking lot to catch people with drugs in cars.

Works pretty much that way here in New Orleans if you're parking on school property, at least at the private schools. Some of the schools also ask you to register your car if you're going to park on the streets adjacent to the school.

 

[melisa]

Oh ****....I have a friend who's daughters go there!! I better call and make sure they are ok!! Along with my future niece!!

I mean I know they are ok...but mommy's tend to worry a lot!!

 

[TowTruck]

I'm glad the kid didn't get charged, but that gives the principal no right to play Officer Barbrady at the school.

DAVE

 

[charlie12]

I was at both those schools about 0500 this morning.

 

[charlie12]

Well at least they didn't charge the boy since he didn't break any laws if it happened as it was reported.

 

[goodburbon]

I'll preface this by saying I didn't go to school in Louisiana, but when we decided to drive to school we had to have a parking permit. In order to get the permit we had to sign a release that said they could search our vehicle at any time without cause.

Our parents might have had to sign it too but I honestly don't remember.

Not sure how things are handled here. I know they used to walk drug dogs through the parking lot to catch people with drugs in cars.

My my how times have changed, and not for the better. Back when I was in high school ( a measly 13 years ago) we drove to school. No registering, no permitting, no special tagging, we just drove there, parked and went to school. We also had guns. Sometimes we went hunting at a friends house after school. Winter days are short and if you didn't bring your gun and had to go home to get it, you might get 20 minutes of hunting in before dark. I also had friends who traded firearms at school. The had just started the crackdown maybe when I was a junior in school. The first day we had wand waving police in our doors checking us as we entered the school I had bullets in my bag. They completely missed that.

 

[charlie12]

When I was in school the lady that ran the cafeteria liked to squirrel hunt. The year she retired at the end of the year program they gave her a 12 ga semi auto for a retirement gift.
And guess what, nobody got shot or went crazy.

 

[kcinnick]

Can an ordinary citizen parking on school property have a firearm locked in their vehicle???

 

[charlie12]

Can an ordinary citizen parking on school property have a firearm locked in their vehicle???

You can read it here. http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=78741

 

[kcinnick]

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to:

(1)...
(5) Any constitutionally protected activity which cannot be regulated by the state, such as a firearm contained entirely within a motor vehicle.

So what did the student do wrong???

 

[charlie12]

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to:

(1)...
(5) Any constitutionally protected activity which cannot be regulated by the state, such as a firearm contained entirely within a motor vehicle.

So what did the student do wrong???

He scared the sheeple and made good TV news.

 

[spanky]

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to:

(1)...
(5) Any constitutionally protected activity which cannot be regulated by the state, such as a firearm contained entirely within a motor vehicle.

So what did the student do wrong???

That's what I was going to post. Even if he knew it was there, he still did nothing wrong.