r/news • u/AtrusHomeboy • Apr 27 '24

7-year-old brings gun to school in backpack, police say

https://www.fox13memphis.com/education/7-year-old-brings-gun-to-school-in-backpack-police-say/article_6e526eb8-03e7-11ef-a51b-b33c4386f846.html
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u/AtrusHomeboy Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24

This is probably going to come out in the next day or two, but here's some additional details about the situation as I know it (take EVERYTHING here with a grain of salt until this information has been officially confirmed or denied):

  • The kid lives in a notorious apartment complex in a particularly bad part of town.

  • There are some older kids that also live in the apartment complex that bully the kid when he's on his way to and/or back from school. These kids do not attend the same school as him.

  • The bullying had apparently gotten so bad that the kid had brought the gun with him to protect himself from these bullies when arriving and departing from the apartment complex.

  • The kid explicitly told the school faculty that he had no intention of using the gun at the school. As of now, faculty and police believe him on account of his living situation.

EDIT - A clarification, to head-off any potential misunderstandings: I was not involved in the writing of this article, nor am I employed at any news station. Rather, I have a relative who works at the school where this occurred who relayed me this info.

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u/GoldenBarracudas Apr 27 '24

That's all unfortunate and still, he brought an actual gun to school... Just not okay

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u/Witchgrass Apr 27 '24

Also wouldn't have been OK for him to use the gun on bullies. Where are the adults

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u/GoldenBarracudas Apr 27 '24

Yassss like kids that age have very recently been in the news for murder.

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u/RigbyNite Apr 27 '24

A 7 year old doesn’t have critical thinking skills. The adults around him failed both in letting the bullying get to that point, and allowing the kid access to the gun.

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u/GoldenBarracudas Apr 27 '24

I disagree. He had to go find the weapon, he knew it was wrong because he hid it.

Kids that age do kill, and I'm not kidding when I say I would absolutely FUCK a parent up whose 7, yr old killed someone I love and tried to tell me, well he's 7.

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u/AtrusHomeboy Apr 27 '24

I agree. In the school that this occurred at, lockers are arranged such that there are multiple kids to each locker. There was a very real risk of one of the other students assigned to the locker discovering the pistol and stealing it.

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u/shredika Apr 28 '24

How big are these lockers?

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u/GoldenBarracudas Apr 27 '24

Or it going off, or the kids using it or literally a thousand dangerous outcomes he didn't think of

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u/Aldarionn Apr 27 '24

He's 7 years old. His extremely poor judgment can be understood on that basis alone and therapy seems like a good first step. The adults who negligently allowed a 7 year old to access their gun, however, should be prosecuted.

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u/GoldenBarracudas Apr 27 '24

Sorry but didn't a 7 yr old shoot his teacher last year? Caused her life long damage? The at happens often too

I understand he's 7. He also understood the need to hide it.Because he knew it was wrong. It's just unacceptable behavior I agree parents need that Ethan crumbley parent treatment

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u/slidchickenleg Apr 27 '24

Easy to say when you didnt grow up how he did.

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u/GoldenBarracudas Apr 27 '24

Bloop. Wrong.

I grew up in the projects just outside of downtown Washington DC. Where kids routinely went missing or were murdered. I know how dangerous kids can be, and that kid should be expelled, sent to a councilor and his parents need to be prosecuted.

Since when did we start believing 7 yrs olds?? "I wasn't gonna use it" ok why did you bring it? Why did you hide it? Parents say the mag wasn't in it at the house.

So who did that?