Thwarted school shooting and a link to "Locked up guns"

This story comes from my home state of Maine. In it they make a MASSIVE leap from properly locked up guns, to "but he could have gained access if properly motivated"

scary stuff.

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[link to www.pressherald.com]


Sanford police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy with criminal terrorizing after he allegedly threatened on Facebook to shoot his classmates at Sanford High School.

Police were notified about the posts by the mother of a classmate at 9 p.m. Thursday. The posts had been brought to the mother’s attention by her daughter, who is a student at the school and one of those who had been threatened by name on his post.

Sanford Police Chief Thomas P. Connolly Jr. said the girl and her mother’s “swift action was crucial” in helping police address the threat.

The boy had sent individual messages to classmates that talked about shooting fellow students, and he posted a threat on his Facebook wall, a part of the social networking site that is more widely accessible to other readers.

“On that wall, he had posted his thoughts of shooting everyone in his class (Friday) and he named three specific people,” Connolly said.

Police interviewed the boy and his legal guardian late Thursday night and determined that the threat was credible – that there were “means, motive and opportunity to carry out the crime,” Connolly said.

Police searched the boy’s room and found no weapons, although there were guns in the house. They were properly secured, but if the boy was determined, he could have gained access to them, Connolly said. It’s not clear what type of guns or how many were in the house.







Is this the beginning of the media attack on proper gun safty???

Last Edited by bTx on 06/14/2014 10:09 AM