There's a lockdown so I probably won't be home for awhile.
A lockdown is what happens when there is danger at or near the school. I immediately looked at the local news channels online to see what was happening. In the area where T's school is, there is an elementary school and a junior high school all close together. There was a kid from the junior high who was showing a gun around. When security saw the kid, he ran away and that's when the three schools, plus another nearby elementary school were put on lockdown. I got a call from the school district (a recorded message) informing me of the situation and that all the students and faculty were safe, but everyone was to stay at the school until police gave the all clear.
Eventually, after a couple of hours, the kid surrendered and police found the toy gun nearby.
A toy freakin' gun. What was that kid thinking? It's a good thing he dropped/abandoned it or there's a good chance he would have been shot by the police. As it was, he was taken into custody.
I'm not gonna lie to you..my stomach was twisted in knots for those two hours. I was pretty much worthless at work as I kept checking the local news outlets to see if there were any updates on the situation. I didn't know what to do with myself. I knew T was safe at the school, but I was still freaking out a little. Or a lot at different moments. To illustrate how messed up I was, let me tell you this story:
I was working on a spreadsheet that is pretty important to my work. I baby that spreadsheet by saving it after every three or four new entries. I have two computer screens, and I had the spreadsheet up on one screen and the news on the other. While reading the news, I must have skibbled by mouse over to the worksheet screen and clicked on something because the whole worksheet disappeared. It was just gone. I panicked a little. I clicked on many buttons, but couldn't bring it back. I tried closing the worksheet and re-opening it, but the blank screen kept coming up. When I clicked on the print preview icon, though, I could see the whole worksheet (51 pages!). I asked the IT genius, Ty, to help me and he was able to restore it. Oh my gosh!
Just after that drama, the school district called to let me know the lockdown had been lifted and the suspect taken into custody. T texted soon after that he was home. Whew!
Thinking back on the lockdown situation, I was worried and scared and pissed off, too. Pissed off at the kid for bringing that shit to school and causing all the drama and making parents like me worry. And pissed off at the toy companies who must think it's ok for toys to look like real guns.
Probably someone who is familiar with guns would immediately be able to tell the difference between the toy and the real gun. I am not a gun person and I can't tell the difference. I'd be freaked out if I saw a person handling something like that.
Not cool. Glad everyone is safe, though.
Here's the story from a local news channel.
1 comment:
The one on the right is a Glock 19 gen 4(I own a gen 3 so I can tell) so I know that one is real. But the one of the left looks completly real to me so I only know its fake through process of elimination otherwise I would have considered both of them as real. (By the time actually spoted the toy screw hole on the left it would be too late.
I recently went to japan and noticed that all there toy guns look real. Since just about no one in japan has ever seen a real gun or let alone used one in there culture its pretty well established that all guns they see are props and toys so I was some what alarmed on holoween when I had 3 seperate incidents were a Japanese girl would playfully shove a realistic gun in my face. I slapped the first one out of the first girls hand startled, but was unnerved but not startled the next 2 times. The second two girls actually pulled the trigger. I don't think they realize how offensive that is to an actual gun owner.
I agree guns need to look fake, a realistic gun will get a child killed.
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