Gunshot at Georgia school ignites debate on arming teachers (another)

[pcosmar]

Gunshot at Georgia school ignites debate on arming teachers

http://www.wral.com/gunshot-at-georg...hers/17381567/

Took one for the team,,or for publicity.
Either way it was deliberate,,and offensive on several levels..


Perhaps the problem with schools is not guns,,, it's Teachers.

[pcosmar]

And who did not see this coming,

After their teacher fires a gun at school, Georgia students use opportunity to challenge Trump’s proposal
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...228-story.html



Jesse Randall Davidson wasn't a stranger, some mysterious threat from the outside. He was a bearded, bespectacled, 53-year-old social studies teacher and the play-by-play announcer for the football games at Dalton High School in northwest Georgia.

But when the teacher brought a gun to school, barricaded himself in his classroom Wednesday and fired a single shot, students quickly recognized that this wasn't just a sad local incident.

Amid national outrage over school shootings — and suggestions by President Trump that schools would be safer if some teachers packed guns — it was a political event.

a staged political event.

[pcosmar]

Perhaps the problem with schools is not guns,,, it's Teachers.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/mi...y-deputies-say

[Ender]

And who did not see this coming,



a staged political event.

That was my very first thought about this.

[nobody's_hero]

"Sure, they can go through background checks and make sure they're mentally stable, but things can happen," she said. "You never know what can cause someone to break. Mr. Davidson seemed completely fine. He was nice and funny and a great teacher. He hadn't committed a crime. You never know what's going on inside a person's head."

Only, he wasn't mentally fine. LA times isn't going to look into his history because it might fudge their narrative that guns are solely to blame.

http://myconnection.cox.com/article/...-5580a036bb74/

Twice in recent years, Dalton police say they encountered the teacher exhibiting odd behavior.

Davidson had walked into the police department telling a rambling story about thinking a murder had occurred, but officers weren't able to verify if anything he said was true, they wrote in a 2016 report. Police said that after their interview of Davidson, he was taken to a hospital "based on him thinking about hurting himself."

In another report last year, police said officers found Davidson during a school day sitting on the curb of a street, conscious but unresponsive and being held up by two school staff members. He was again taken to a hospital.

Both police reports were posted late Wednesday by the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

I had a biology teacher in high school who put alcohol in his coffee. Now, he was normal, and his classes were a lot of fun until one day they found out and fired him.

[seapilot]

This looks staged. If anything it shows teachers should be armed, because this teacher brought a gun to a gun free school. If another teacher had a gun or the principal they could have made sure he did not get out of that room and hurt anyone.

[shakey1]

That was my very first thought about this.

Mine as well... no opportunity left behind.

[Raginfridus]

Staged.

[Raginfridus]

Staged. By tomorrow there will be more articles written telling us this was not staged than clarifying just what the hell happened.

[phill4paul]

Georgia teacher who fired gun told police he had woman killed

The Georgia teacher arrested for barricading himself in a classroom and firing a gun reported an unfounded claim to police in 2016 that he was involved in a woman's death.

Jesse Randall Davidson, 53, told Dalton police that he had an affair with a woman online who refused to end contact with him, and two of his friends offered to "take care of her," according to a 2016 officer incident report.

Davidson said he agreed. Later when he asked if they scared her, the friends said it was worse than that, which he understood to mean that they killed her, the incident report said. The claims went unfounded.

"It appears the subject may be delusional or have something else that had occurred that is causing to have these thoughts," read the report.

Davidson, who allegedly was on several medications for depression at the time, had just gotten out of the hospital when he spoke to police on March 21,
2016.

The teacher also had an incident near campus grounds in 2017: Davidson called his son and mother to pick him up from the school building, claiming he didn't feel well. School staff began looking for him throughout the school, but found him almost a mile away sitting on a curb. Davidson was conscious but non-responsive to Dalton staff, and was transported to the hospital via EMS, according to an incident report.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-woman-n852271

Pretty sure he wouldn't have been a teacher that would have been vetted for this kind of behaviour.

[pcosmar]

Any other incident where the gun came from and when would be posted.

I am wondering,, was he a long term gun owner? Was the gun purpose bought? recently?

Who is his Handler/Psychiatrist?

Davidson, who allegedly was on several medications for depression at the time, had just gotten out of the hospital when he spoke to police on March 21, 2016.

unsurprising.

[nobody's_hero]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-woman-n852271

Pretty sure he wouldn't have been a teacher that would have been vetted for this kind of behaviour.

Hah. They generally don't care how you behave. If you're really smart and smile a lot, and help improve their scores so they don't miss out on federal funding, you're a "good" teacher.

[Dr.3D]

Seems the solution would be to just have all the kids stay home and have their classes via the internet.

[nobody's_hero]

Seems the solution would be to just have all the kids stay home and have their classes via the internet.

If you put books on smart phones, it would probably be a good way to get the younger generation from staring at their smart phones all the time.

[Raginfridus]

Seems the solution would be to just have all the kids stay home and have their classes via the internet.

Schools are obsolete.

[seapilot]

Seems the solution would be to just have all the kids stay home and have their classes via the internet.

That is actually an excellent idea. Private online live courses. Unfortunately today schools are day care centers for two working parents.