Andrew Rothman
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From today's Minneapolis Star Tribune web site:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4 103576.html
Here's the interesting part: GUNS ARE BANNED AT SCHOOLS IN TENNESSEE!
So how come this guy brought one to campus? Oh, yeah, I remember. Criminals don't obey laws!
So how come the standoff hasn't been resolved? Oh, yeah. Because LEGAL CARRY IS BANNED ON CAMPUS. The hostages have been effectively disarmed, but their assailant has not.
Am I the only one who sees the obvious problem?
Matt
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4 103576.html
Man with gun, knife holds Tennessee college classroom hostage
Published September 18, 2003 (obviously not - it's still the 17th)
DYERSBURG, Tenn. -- A man with a gun and a knife took college students and a teacher hostage Wednesday afternoon, then released three people about three hours into the standoff, the mayor said.
An estimated 12 to 15 people remained in the classroom at Dyersburg State Community College, Mayor Bill Revell said. No injuries were immediately reported in the standoff.
Dyersburg Police Chief Bobby Williamson told the State Gazette newspaper that he deployed his special response team in an attempt to start negotiations.
School president Karen Bowyer called the state Board of Regents office in Nashville to report the standoff, regents spokeswoman Mary Morgan said. Bowyer told the Nashville officials that one faculty member was among the hostages.
There were no reports of shots being fired, Morgan said.
Bowyer told the Nashville office that college officials thought the gunman might be a student but they didn't know what sparked the incident about 75 miles northeast of Memphis.
Athletic Director Alan Barnett said that authorities cleared the campus of other students.
``Police ordered all students to evacuate, but employees could stay,'' Barnett said in a telephone interview. ``We had students coming in since it happened, but everyone is gone now.''
Ken Teutsch, a media specialist at the campus Learning Resource Center, said from his office that he could see a couple of police cars near the building where the standoff occurred.
``It's obviously very disturbing, very shocking, but on the other hand, we're not completely unprepared. There have been training and drills and that sort of thing,'' he said.
Here's the interesting part: GUNS ARE BANNED AT SCHOOLS IN TENNESSEE!
So how come this guy brought one to campus? Oh, yeah, I remember. Criminals don't obey laws!
So how come the standoff hasn't been resolved? Oh, yeah. Because LEGAL CARRY IS BANNED ON CAMPUS. The hostages have been effectively disarmed, but their assailant has not.
Am I the only one who sees the obvious problem?
Matt