Hm. Has this ever happened at your school? Options

[inthemudhole]

Hey.
I'm just wondering if there have ever been serious gun threats at any of your schools.

Ever since the Columbine shooting, my school has had minor, minor threats around this time of the year.

But ever since the more recent Red Lake (Minnesota) shooting occured, there have been a few constant threats. We live very close to Red Lake, might I add.

So ever since about the end of last week, there had been a crapload of rumors going around about some chick having a hit list and all. No one thought much of it.

Then on Tuesday (yesterday), my school was on the local news and front paper. Apparently, those rumors were very true. The girl had deleted the list though, but she had a list compiled of people that she was going to shoot on April 20th, which is the anniversary of the Columbine shootings and is also Hiter's birthday. The list mainly had eighth and ninth graders on it, and the people on there were so-called "preps" and "poser goths." I'm not saying they are or aren't, I'm just repeating what I've heard.

Anyway, she's currently at the local mental institution, but not for the list and all, because as of right now, there isn't any complete proof that the list existed, although a lot of us had seen it. I saw it on her site, but I didn't read it. I didn't think anything of it. I wish I did though.

Anyway, she's at the mental institution because apparently she cut herself during class a few times. On the hand, tongue, and leg.

I'm sort of getting off-track...

Has your school ever had any gun threats before?
If yes, were they minor or major?

We've been having cops monitoring the hallways since a day or two after the Red Lake shooting. Now we're doing daily "security" drills.

I'm not worried. I was a bit paranoid today, but I wasn't on the list, and she's not going to be back for the rest of the year, so yeah. A lot of people are skipping school on April 20th.

[JC4P]

whoa. thats wicked. I wasnt allowed to go to school for 2 months this year. becuase some fat kid said he was gonna slit my thorath after he shoots me with his dads gun.

[DanielleMaria05]

Um, no. *Another major upside to living in a small country town in Ohio* We've never had any gun threat. Really, no threats at all. (Even though the entire student body has a gun because of hunting). Which is great. I dont mind.

We still have drills though. Espically since a school about 15 min from mine had a "threat" but really wasn't. It was just a rumor.

[IamRad]

ahh thats creepy

someone i kno, knew the person who killed those students in red lake, minnesota =0

[inthemudhole]

^ Yeah, some people from my school knew some of the victims and the killer.

In response to living in a small town -- Both my town and state are very small in population. It could happen anywhere, you know. North Dakota is one of the least-populated states. It literally could happen anywhere. I never thought anything could happen to my town, let alone my school.

[imenlightened]

not really, i mean ppl at my school are boring. but thats horrible! she was actually gonna shoot those ppl?!

[Shattered_Hope]

There have been none....since I've been at this school anyway...but there have been incidents....like the most previous one..where this rapist comes upon school grounds with a gun...everyone was locked inside classrooms...and they messed up the lunch schedule....but throughout the day....you had to walk around with someone...or the rapist could get you....

[inthemudhole]

not really, i mean ppl at my school are boring. but thats horrible! she was actually gonna shoot those ppl?!

Yes. She had a huge list compiled, and this is the first serious gun threat my school has ever had. She basically had anyone on her list that ever had a problem with her. She got a lot of shit from people for literally no reason, so yeah. I believe she was serious. I wouldn't be going to school on April 20th if she wasn't currently away from school.

[twelveislands]

Woah. That's crazy

We've never had any gun threats or anything like that. I don't think any schools have here

[AngelTears]

Well I'm homeschooled so.. no not really, tehe.

But the school I would be going to (Thank God I dont) They, this last year, had a kid bring a gun to school, he didnt get to shoot anybody because someone found out that he had a gun and told the principal before he could do anything. But they found a hit list and a hand gun in the kids backpack and a guy I know (and am semi-friends with) was on the list. *shiver*

[*salcha*]

Nah, considering that mine is a public school, it;s actually quite safe. We're a small city, so there hasn't been many shootings here.

[Saeglopur]

My school's too much in of asking someone out to find time to do any shootings.

[juliar]

Um. private schools are un-shootish.

Wow...thankfully, that girl was sorta.. detected (i dont know the word fo rit) before april 20. damnn. scariness.

[yeseulx3]

that's freaky...
but no, i don't think anything like that has ever happened at my school.
it's very ordinary.

[surfhottieoffcoa...]

at my school bout a yr ago we had a bomb threat and we were instructed to run out of the school and get as far as possible, and that still looked pretty close, cause we wern't allowed to leave the school.

we wern't allowed to enter the school so of coarse there was no h/w and i was all PRAIS THE LORD

but at a school nearby, were alot of my friends go, a kid brought a shot gun and 12 knives to school and threatend them somehow

[*stephinika*]

wow...nope. my school is rather small, and its a private catholic school... yeah nothing big or dramatic happens here. perhaps the occasional fight, but even thats rare.

[lolthissiteisfun...]

Yeah every once in a while. Once like half the school called their parents cause "a bunch of goths" (their words not mine) were going to shoot up the school after my lunch period. There were a TON of cops there, and all the APs were freaked out. Nothing ever happened though, but everyone was like hiding in the bathrooms after lunch. I think the whole school was tardy that day. but yeah it was scary

edit- APs being assistant principals. and we always have drug busts and stuff.
oh yeah. and a couple of years ago some genius called in a bomb threat at school, on his cell phone. ha, they tracked him in like 4 minutes. Oh, and in the 5th grade the whole school got cleared out cause of a bomb threat

April 20th is my friend's birthday

[likeachild]

someone was shooting trash cans with a BB gun
that's about it

[Teesa]

When Columbine happened, every school was crazy ridiculous on security(I live in Colorado, so that's why), but no gun threats have been at my school. Maybe because we have so many security guards. They're practically everywhere.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

yeah in my elementary school. sorry yall i live in the ghetto yu might say haha. but when my brother was in 5 grade he got cuaght up in some bad shit and police came up in my casa and was speakin` on shit cos his dumbyass patnah was talkin` some head bout he fun` bring a gun to school and shoot all the teachers and shit. so this one female had overheard and ran to the teacher and spoke on my brother when all he did was say yeah to shit his patnah up.

and in my middle school people carry knives [ i do, ] and some people have guns [ but` not me. ]

[EXPLO5ION]

^That was kinda confusing.

Anyways, there hasn't been any threats around my school.

[toodlepops.]

Never happened in my school before.
But yea, it would be scary.

[vampireduster]

we have bomb threats almost everyday

[misoshiru]

that's freaky. but no, our school has never had any gun threats at all, though we have received a few bomb threats. or should i say "suspicious bomb-like objects" have been found outside of our school, afterschool.

[bowdowntome]

ah nope never happened to me...eh i hope it never happens to me cuz thats just scary...

[xMayleex]

Well there's been know gun threats but we had like 5 people from year 11 planning to blow up the school lol and we had people doing drugs in my school which is really bad.

[*lolita kitty*]

nah.
theres fights at my school quite alot, but no gun threats.
that would be too scary >.<;;

[ItzOnlySydney]

yea we had a minor one like a month ago.

[Rachel]

My old school had a few bomb/shooting threats. Nothing happened though.

I am glad you are safe tho Brie!

[laur3nw]

I don't know if there was any at my school. If there was, I didn't know about it...

[WrathOfOnigo]

Wow, that is just freaky. My neighborhood is one of those upscale preppy ones so nobody is about to shoot anyone. I can see some students making hit-lists in the future at my school. I won't be on it though because people barely know that I exist.

[snak3y3z1001]

Theres been shootouts outside me school. Also a few bomb threats when i was a freshman.

[treschicgeek]

hmm, that's freaky. nope, we've probably had a gun threat or two, but nothings happened. yup, we get the occasional fights here and there and the occasional threats having to do with knives. oh! and last year, there was a stabbing incident. blood. police. people getting expelled. the guy who got stabbed is okay now though. our school may sound violent, especially for a middle school, but it isn't considering that theres a police officer on campus all the time now.

[racoons > you]

we use guns at our school.. lik ewe havea rifle range and we do army excercises with the rifles and stuff... you think im kidding...

its quite worrying, as anyone could basically shoot me if they got the urge

[EmmalieV]

Wow thats scary , nope that never happened at my school everybody knows each other , people hardly dislike others.

[KELLYYY]

Uh, I don't think there was such a thing happened at our school but one time, afterschool, my friends ran to me and told me tere was two mexican guys with guns down the hill. Then I saw the Vice Principal running out of the front school door and calling the cops. Thank god I don't walk home.

[*xcaitlinx*]

no, thank god. no GUN threats. but some minor BOMB threats. in the beginning of the year at the high school, someone left a box in the bathroom and the whole school had to evacuate b/c they thought it was a bomb. (in reality it was just a stupid prank). Last year, there was a bomb threat written on the bathroom stall. They made a big deal about that too. Ooh...and in 6th grade, my ex-friend (she moved) wrote a note to my math teacher (they hated each other) and she left it in the girls bathroom. Someone read it and gave it to the principal and it threatened to kill the teacher. Yeeahhh...lots of drama.

[Nicole0402]

Well. When I was in 7th grade. this girl Erika was dating a guy named Brian. And she wasnt his type so he left her for a girl named Jennifer. Well the next day Erika tried to poison Jennifer. I don't know every detail.

Another story. My best friend Justin....lit the middle schol bathrooms on fire 2 years ago. We actually laugh at it now. It was an accident. He just lit a piece of paper on fire in the bathroom and didn't think anything of it, and then threw it away...and kaboom went the bathroom. Of course he was arrested, on house arrest, and a bunch of other stuff....nothing that major

[inthemudhole]

Omigosh. . . Hey brie I'm soooo worried. I think that girl should be kicked out of the school. . . I mean she might not do it on april20th but hey you never know, maybe some other day. . .

Aw. Thanks for your concern, Kris.
I heard she's currently at a mental institution and won't be out of there for about eight to twelve months, so I'm not really worried, but thanks for your concern.

My old school had a few bomb/shooting threats. Nothing happened though.

I am glad you are safe tho Brie!

Thanks, Rachel!

Whoa, that really sucks. I'm glad you're okay though, Brie I'd be really freaked out if something like that happened at my school.

Thanks, too, Julia!

Yeah, I think everything's going to be fine...Some people are paranoid that some of her friends might do something that day, but I'm not sure. I sort of know some of her friends. I really think everything's going to turn out fine. I'm not usually one to be optimistic either.

[iheartsimba]

Very scary when that happens...usually if there are, we don't know about them...just rumors and things. Some have happend at the highschool I'll be going to.

There was a minor one..someone taped like a bullet to the bathroom wall and wrote a threatening message. But they found out who it was..but you'd think they could be more creative then that if they are going to try to be all scary. Tape?

[*jooleeah*]

Whoa, that really sucks. I'm glad you're okay though, Brie I'd be really freaked out if something like that happened at my school.

[to-devastate]

Wow. That's creepy. There haven't been any threats that I've heard towards my school. I hope there won't be.
That must be really scary for you. I guess, to make it less scary, just always hang out with a group of friends. I bet there's a less chance that anyone would get shot in big crowds. I hope she gets kicked out of your school.

[loljuliana]

My school. .is sorta peaceful. The worst thing that can really happen is if you get jumped. =\

[*FreeStickers*]

This one guy did bring a gun to my school. He didn't go to our school. He just got on one fo the school buses. He showed someone the gun and he was planning on shooting someone, but the someone that he showed the gun to told the principal. Yeah..

And

This kid at an elementary school in town just recently brought a gun to school. He was planning on standing on top of the building (how he was going to get on top of the building, I dont know) and shoot teachers/kids as they came out. They found out he had the gun the same way they found out about the guy ^^ up there.

[KERP1UNK]

no...luckily...but there have been some threats at a school kind of close to mine..

[mickybeans]

oh wow, thats really scary. well- its pretty ironic that you are mentioning it now but my school is going through it right now. last thursday- there was a HUGE fight at my school between the blacks and mexicans and well, there was an exchange of words and supposedly, someone was suppose to bring a gun to school and shoot the entire school. a lot of students were scared and no one came to school on Friday!

the whole fight was over a boy that was shot earlier within the week. there are some ties to the boy that was shot with some students at my school, or so i heard.

the entire week, there has been extra cops surrounding our school and extra security circulating the entire school. its really childish that someone would want to do something so horrible for such a petty incident. -__-

there were, however, some reported pipe bombs planted outside near the football field recently. really scary stuff.. >_<

stay safe though! although i dont know you too well, you must stay safe and be careful, dear (:

[kryzcoak47luv666]

I say the worst thing that ever happened at my school, is some kid brought a termometer to school, broke it and they made it look like a huge thing, the EPA came in, lots of cops, and we were stuck the for 4 hours after we were supposed to be let out, and they didn't let us go upstairs to get our coats, damn freshman! (no offense)

Yeah but most of the time its always gang related with the guns, and kids bring knives, what our schools solution? change the dress code. Man I hate my old school, erg!

[*jooleeah*]

There was a minor one..someone taped like a bullet to the bathroom wall and wrote a threatening message. But they found out who it was..but you'd think they could be more creative then that if they are going to try to be all scary. Tape?

Ohhh yeaaah. I wasn't really freaked out about that though. I don't know why....it never seemed serious. It was more like a joke to me.

[Note]

some high school kid came into our school during 7th grade. then he went and beat this 6th grader up. The police came...Last friday, there was like 4 fights in 5 minutes and everyone ran from every where just to look. they literary caused a stamped.

[jerry]

[imaBIGdork]

mmmm... there was a bomb threat in our school and we had to walk to another school 2 miles away in the rain... it was raining really hard too

[xTINAA]

Well I live in Colorado and after Columbine the sercurity around all the schools was of course tightened. Uhm I can't remember anything really crazy happening since then. I think there was a bomb threat possibly or something a bit ago but I could be making that up. However like a month ago, in the middle school next to my school, a kid had written up a hit list against African-Americans (and put himself) and so we had all these cops and news stations around. That's all I can think of at the moment.

[[o0p]]

no ;; i dont think anyone would bring a gun to a jr. high.

[slipper]

i wish my highschool were doing check ups.. for the druggies in the school.

well actually, this monday or tuesday, there was this "bomb threat" in the bathrooms, they used the yellow caution tape, & had the cops watch by. though, i heard in my math class, that they just put dry ice in the toilet, because a science teacher gave the students to study on i guess, or because they asked for some.

the only things that happened that's relevent to this topics are bomb threats, but without the involving the media (newspaper, tv news..).

[Animeloverhk93]

well in a school here in oak harbor some girls boy friend killed her. like in oak harbor high school. then in my school (i'm still in elementary) um there was a boy in my class and he got expeled b/c he threated kids in my class like um if u do that again i'm gonna stab u with a pencil so i grabed his arm and pulled it and said "STOP" but he just yanked back. but alot of ppl in my class told on him like "hes threatening everyone" so he got expeled and the police had to take him. or somthing like that

[inthemudhole]

no ;; i dont think anyone would bring a gun to a jr. high.

Well, I'm in junior high and it has happened before here.
Also, I live in a very sheltered town and state, so it could happen at a junior high.

[dani41790]

Wow gosh that's freaky. That kind of stuff happens a lot at my school. This girl shan, hated my best friend a lot so then one day she brought a knife, but she dropped it and my friend and her bf saw so then my friend's boyfriend stood in back of her to protect her. Gosh I was really scared when that happened. But yeah theres also lots of threats at my school like "i'm gonna bring a gun to school and blow your head off". Pretty scary.

[FiendAngelical]

No, but today some guy hit another guy with a chair...

[*suddenly she*]

not my school, but my future high school that's right next to us. some person wrote stuff about shooting all the cheerleaders and anyone around them afterschool and then that day if you weren't at school, you weren't counted absent. i guess that's kinda major.

[tkingbacksnday01]

I'm in highschool in Forest, VA (just by the name you can tell its a small town) and my school just recently had a threat (lik 2 weeks ago)... some one wrote "i want to kill everyone in the school on 3/11" (well the principal said it was 3/11 but it looked lik 3/1 but since 3/1 is a sunday he said it was 3/11) in our stair well, the girls bathroom and the guys bathroom... and taht was today.. i didnt go and luckly nothing happend... but there was news casters and everything... they school had police officers stay over night from yesterday at 7am to today at 7pm... the school has a 700 dollar reward for the person that turns the guy in... so far theres been 2 people turned in and the chic had a death list... and suposably she had an acoplis and they dont no who that person is.. but yea... no theres a rumor going around school that is goin to happen on friday (cuz its the 13th)... and lik a week after the highschool death threat came so did another in the middle school... its really scary... 900 students were missing from schol today

[dancerellie714]

one of the parents at our football game from the opposing school shot another one of the parents a few years ago... other than that no..

[kaB00M]

Nope.....at least I don't think so.

[xoxvietbabyy]

Wow that sounds really scary.. There have been no threats like that at my school, or at least none that I know of.

[MetalChick77]

There were like 3 bomb threats at my high school the year columbine hapened. School got like out early all of the days, luckily i wasnt in high school yet.

Um..yesterday there was a drug bust, i dont think thats too major tho.

[someflipguy]

Nope our schools haven't been like that. But, little kids these days like to beat each other up. Like this one kid got arrested for kicking a kid in the face and almost killing him.

[PinoyOtaku]

We had a supposed bomb threat back when I was in the 8th grade (9/11 still lingering...) which pretty much had us evacuated to the church...we weren't warned of anything at first when we arrived, just thought it was some random assembly or something...

[Eryi]

Nope, but lots of people smoke around there.