... the student would probably be dead with a bullet in his/her chest?

You could be right. We don't need people armed at schools!

Glad to know it is considered an "arm."

They locked down the school. Surrounded the campus, Shut down the streets. Sent in 60 officers. Locked the kids in the class rooms for two hours, while they maintained defensive positions. The police had their guns out and went class room to class room and asked every teacher if they had all of their students, if any were missing, and if they had anyone extra in the classroom, who did not belong there.

When they saw on the video tapes it was a fold up camping shovel and not an ax, they cleared the drill. The kids and parents were crying. It was tramatic for them.

Those folding shovels have a serrated edge on them. You know, so you can use them as an axe.

What if a weapon accidentally discharged and killed a student? It could have gone wrong.

NT.

Gee, lots of things can be used as weapons in school. Those cute poles they put the flags up on in the gym during assemblies? Notice the spear tip? Those used to be used regularly to kill people, back in the Civil War. Oh, and those rocks out in the parking lot? They used to be used to stone people to death about two thousand years ago.

Continue down this path of being hysterical at nothing and you discredit efforts to get legitimate weapons out of schools.

Blunt scissors for everybody through senior high.

(Then we enlist them, give them a Squad Automatic Weapon, and send them off to shoot towelheads.)

At least in this part of the country(Missouri). In the rural and poor areas you can take shop and home ec in high school, in urban/suburban districts it starts in middle school.

Oh, and sharp scissors start in third grade.

And that I am carrying a weapon in the Jeep. Mine was once issued to a GI in WWIi or Korea.

Any blade of over about 1-2" length can be used to cut the carotid artery.

Any cordage or wiring with a tensile strength of > 200 lbs can be used as to strangle.

There's a 4' USB cord within reach that would do nicely.

And you know what is shocking? I once rode in an ambulance properly marked per the Geneva Convention. This might come as a shock to you...but under that pesky convention I was able (and willing) to defend my patients or myself.

Cops doing this shit over an entrenching tool used as part of a class is stupid, real stupid.