Gun seizure team works to stop next school shooting

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Gun seizure team works to stop next school shooting

Police say most school shooters are young, and they arm themselves with their parents guns. So police and prosecutors in King County are trying to get guns out of the reach of potential school shooters.

Author: Chris Ingalls
Published: 9:44 PM PDT July 19, 2018
Updated: 10:28 PM PDT July 19, 2018

Two days after the February shooting that killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school, a student did something that brought police to Seattle’s Garfield High School.

The student, a senior, posted a Snapchat image of another Garfield student’s head at the barrel of a cartoon gun. The caption read, “Screenshot if you think we need more guns.”

The police, the Seattle school district, and the student victim’s family took the threat seriously.

That led to a first-of-its-kind legal case in King County, where authorities attempted to remove all firearms from the household where the 17-year-old accused student lives.

“In 70 percent of all school shootings, the children got the firearms from their parents,” said Chris Anderson with the Seattle City Attorney’s Office.

Anderson is part of the new Regional Firearms Enforcement Unit that strives to prevent gun crimes, typically those involving domestic violence or extreme risk protection orders.

Trying to stop the next school shooting is also part of the unit’s mission.​

 

[Kosh]

Maybe if the unions would stop spending the billions on politicians and instead invest that money into protecting the people they claim to represent, this would not be a problem.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

This is the most interesting part of the story for me

Prosecutors on the firearms enforcement unit advised the victim’s family that they could file an anti-harassment order against the accused student, and request a court order requiring that the student live in a household where no firearms are present.

“If you do not remove the firearms from the father, you do not really remove the access to the firearms for the child,” the victim’s father told a judge in a King County courtroom.

KING 5 is not naming any of the parties involved since both the accused and the victim are juveniles

On March 6, a King County judge issued a civil “weapons surrender” order requiring “any household members who own or possess any firearms” to turn their guns over to police for safekeeping.

The teen’s father reluctantly gave to police the three firearms he owns – a Taurus handgun, a shotgun and a rifle.
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Prosecutors initially charged the teen with felony harassment in King County juvenile court, in addition to the civil anti-harassment order filed by the victim’s family.

Anderson says this legal tactic has now been used in a half dozen cases of school threats in Seattle and King County, involving college and high school students. In all cases, household members of the accused willingly handed over their firearms as the case was resolved – all except one.

The father in the Snapchat case hired an attorney to argue that the weapons surrender order violated his 2nd Amendment rights. In a legal brief filed in May, the attorney said the man’s son was the party facing the criminal harassment charge, and that “the Court has no statutory authority to order a nonparty to surrender weapons.”

After hearing arguments, Judge Susan Amini agreed.

“The court has no jurisdiction to tell him what to do,” the judge said of the father’s refusal to voluntarily hand over his guns.

The order required Seattle police to return the father’s firearms, although the man’s attorney said he has always been willing to keep them locked up at a location separate from his residence.​

 

[Marion Morrison]

Gun seizure team works to stop next school shooting

Police say most school shooters are young, and they arm themselves with their parents guns. So police and prosecutors in King County are trying to get guns out of the reach of potential school shooters.

Author: Chris Ingalls
Published: 9:44 PM PDT July 19, 2018
Updated: 10:28 PM PDT July 19, 2018

Two days after the February shooting that killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school, a student did something that brought police to Seattle’s Garfield High School.

The student, a senior, posted a Snapchat image of another Garfield student’s head at the barrel of a cartoon gun. The caption read, “Screenshot if you think we need more guns.”

The police, the Seattle school district, and the student victim’s family took the threat seriously.

That led to a first-of-its-kind legal case in King County, where authorities attempted to remove all firearms from the household where the 17-year-old accused student lives.

“In 70 percent of all school shootings, the children got the firearms from their parents,” said Chris Anderson with the Seattle City Attorney’s Office.

Anderson is part of the new Regional Firearms Enforcement Unit that strives to prevent gun crimes, typically those involving domestic violence or extreme risk protection orders.

Trying to stop the next school shooting is also part of the unit’s mission.​

Whooping that ass when they're young goes a lot further. Set boundaries and enforce them.

I thought it was all fun and games, until mama pulled my diaper down and spanked that ass.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Whooping that ass when they're young goes a lot further. Set boundaries and enforce them.

You know what I've found, especially with little kids, is that they simply do not undertand the repercussions of their acts. They also seem to understand the difference between you just telling them not to do something as an authority figure and you explaining to them how something they're doing can hurt them if they persist in their activities. Having had a beloved pet that has died helps them understand that death is forever, not something that can be undone, therefore they should be mindful of their actions.

Every one of my young relatives that I've taken to the range came away with a new appreciation of the destruction that a firearm can do.

Also threatening them that all of the adults in their lives would end up in jail and they'd be orphans if they ever did anything stupid maybe helped a little

 

[Marion Morrison]

Whooping that ass when they're young goes a lot further. Set boundaries and enforce them.

You know what I've found, especially with little kids, is that they simply do not undertand the repercussions of their acts. They also seem to understand the difference between you just telling them not to do something as an authority figure and you explaining to them how something they're doing can hurt them if they persist in their activities. Having had a beloved pet that has died helps them understand that death is forever, not something that can be undone, therefore they should be mindful of their actions.

Every one of my young relatives that I've taken to the range came away with a new appreciation of the destruction that a firearm can do.

Also threatening them that all of the adults in their lives would end up in jail and they'd be orphans if they ever did anything stupid maybe helped a little

Err, how does that Bible verse go?

"Spare the rod, and spoil the child"


True story. You do make valid points, though.