Sunday, March 26, 2006

Going to Bat for Gun-Free Schools

A distraught former student armed with a bat and chain sent Hopkinton High students running for cover yesterday when he stormed the school.
And all anyone there could do--including the adult teachers and administrators--was hope that "official" men with guns would arrive in time to keep any of them from being hurt.

That's the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) Wayne likes it
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2 comments:

AlanDP said...

Why am I not surprised that this happened in a state like Massachusetts? When I was in school, if someone had tried this stunt, he would have been removed on a stretcher.

E. David Quammen said...

Was he surrounded by clouds? How does someone 'storm' a school with a bat and a chain?

Was he whistling a tune from West Side Story? Or singing, how he once knew a girl named 'Maria'?

The book 'A Nation of Cowards' by Jeffrey R. Snyder comes to mind.