oc4ever wrote:
Wewd, don't get me wrong. It was opening day of bird season, and I understand that this schools zero tolerance policy for guns was way overblown and the kid got a very tough excessive penalty. He was not on school property , but close enough,( I will assume on the street next to school )for the police dogs searching the school parking lots to hit on his car. You have to know khigh school students go out to their cars during breaks to drink/smoke dope, or generally do something they know they can't do on school property, and thats why they park off campus. I did.:lol: Having a gun "real handy" is a explosive mixture.
A much less severe penalty, or just a warning, should have been in order. I was raised in Imperial County, one of the best dove hunting areas around. I got my car license at 15 years old because of working on a family farm. I understand rural living. There was no way I would have asked my parents to go to school with a shotgun after hunting on opening day. You just did not do that ,and there was none of this zero torrerance BS to deal with then. No, this kid was not a gang member in LA, but neither were the ones in Columbine. When our society has the ability to distinquish the difference, we can let the good 16 year olds take all the guns with them to school they want. I still think the parents(allowing) and kid yo take a gun to school used extremely bad judgement.
If you look at a aerial of the school (google earth) it is obvious he was parked directly next to the school by the tennis courts. 203 N Murdock Ave, Willows, CA.
Let's take this thinking one step further.
The law PC 626.9 states that you can't open carry a handgun withing 1,000 feet of a school zone.
You are walking down the street, just one block away from the 1,000 foot mark, lets say 1,250 feet. Close enough. Let's charge you with a violation of PC 626.9.
The school stated that itacts legally in the place of the parents (loco parentis) from the time the child leaves his home until he reaches the school, and then from the time he leaves the school until he reaches home. So based on the schools definition, if the kid had left his house, gone duck hunting, then parked 15 miles from the school and walked the rest of the way, they would still be in the right if they expelled him if a cop from another county found the car with the gun in it.
This is just stupidity on the part of the school.