Rifle found inside Vancouver HS prompts lockdown
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Evergreen High School was placed under a lockdown for several hours Wednesday morning after a teacher found a rifle inside the school.
Vancouver police spokeswoman Kim Kapp said there were no reports of injuries. A teacher found the rifle and ammo and immediately called police, she said. It was not immediately clear exactly where in the school the teacher found the weapon.
Student Melique Journet said he was in choir class when an announcement came over the intercom that students needed to stay in their classrooms, turn off the lights and be silent.
Students were being released from school early, escorted by security.
Here is a news agency that updates the stories.
http://www.kptv.com/story/20326835/4-vancouver-schools-in-lockdown
After the announcement, who started acting different and looking for a way out? That would be a good start on finding out what is going on.Â
so the story... where did they find it?! please tell me I don't have to go to a new station that actually updates their news information (kiro for instance)
I remember back in the mid to late 80s we were encouraged to bring our rifles in from our trucks in the parking lot and lock them up in our lockers so they would not be left unattended in the parking lot. It was not a big deal. Imagine that.
[sarcasm]A gun in a school and no one got shot. Apparently guns do not shoot people... [/sarcasm]
It wasn't so long ago that it was commonplace for American High Schools to have school-sanctioned gun clubs, even shooting ranges in the basements. Â Everyone (the sane majority, anyway) understood that it is essential to teach children gun safety, and people didn't become instantly hysterical at the mere mention of or sight of a gun.. Â
Even the University of Washington had a Rifle And Pistol Club around 20 or so years ago.
Probably brought it in for show and tell: American style.Â
 @lakeview Go back to the 70s or before and you'd be probably right. Funny how there weren't mass shootings nearly as much in those days. Could it be because guns weren't a taboo object but just another reality of American living? The days when you could bring your rifle or shotgun to school to show it off or to keep with you before going hunting after class were far safer and less fraught with danger than today's "victim rich environments".
 @dg54321 When I was a young kid in the 80s growing up in Texas, my neighbor hood friend had a .22 rifle. His dad kept control of it, but it was no big deal in those parts for kids to own small cal rifles. We were like 8 years old at most.  Â
Hopefully they can get fingerprints and figure out who has touched it.
 @mstipton too much CSI
 @mstipton Unless the person is in the "System" it would not help.
 @DarkParty  @mstipton assuming the gun is their own gun and not stolen or "burrowed" they would be in the system. most people who own guns have a CPL and in order to obtain a CPL one must get finger-printed.
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food for thought
 @DylanJ Really? You can't get a CPL until you are 21.
 @DarkParty  @mstipton unless the student was 18. come on man, this isn't rocket science.
 @DylanJ Looking at the population and number of CPL holders I wouldn't be so sure that most gun owners also have a CPL.  Especially when it comes to long guns because most are kept at home for home defense and aren't carried around.  I am actually surprised by how many people I know that own guns but don't have a CPL, including my parents.
 @DylanJ  @mstipton If they gun was one of the students, they would not have a CPL.