A semi-automatic Glock pistol was left in the boys’ bathroom at a Bellevue elementary school over winter break by someone who attends a church that rents the school every Sunday.
The gun was discovered by a school janitor at Phantom Lake on Sunday, Dec. 21. The janitor gave the pistol to his superior, and they returned the weapon to the Lighthouse pastor, who knew who owned the Glock, according to the police report. The church has rented the elementary school for its weekly services since 2008.
So naturally the school has told the church they are not allowed to rent the space anymore … right?
brings a Glock to a church service
Do Americans really?
yes
2nd commandment says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
-Constitutions A:2
Yes, people bring a gun everywhere to protect themselves from everything EXCEPT government overreach, which is the true intended target of the second amendment.
I mean yeah that’s one reason.
But the main reason was to be able to form militias to catch runaway slaves. They didn’t want the government interfering with their slave patrols.
Slaves and even freed black men were prohibited from carrying firearms by state law. Dread Scott v Sandford in 1857 even had SCOTUS chief justice saying that black men can’t be citizens because then they could have guns and that would be an unacceptable threat to public safety.
Madison (a Virginian) wrote the second amendment specifically to appeal to Southern states.
One of the primary goals Republicans (the ones that freed the slaves, not modern republicans) had for the 14th amendment was specifically to ensure black men could arm themselves to protect against persecution from ex-slavers in the south.
You must have not met our American brand of Jesus, who believes in guns and Budweiser. Unless Budweiser is too woke now I dunno I don’t subscribe.
a church svc in a school. double yes.
Americans absolutely poop their pampers when CBSA tells them their arsenal can’t come north with them to the family camping ground.
Have you seen the morons who go to American churches? I wouldn’t go, but if I was forced to, I wouldn’t go unarmed (especially knowing everyone else was)
Well now you know why almost everyone is armed
Self fulfilling mass delusional fear
Similar to the desk pop, the pew pop is for moments of intense worship that spur the fanatic into firing their weapon in the air in pure adulation.
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Yeah, that makes total sense
And a school
…and forgot thier gun.
“It’s for church honey.”
Why would they tell the parents? The gun was left and found while students weren’t there and wouldn’t be there because it was winter break.
The entire thing is a non-issue.
- It’s illegal to bring guns into a school in Washington State
- Washington State has a “safe storage” law requiring guns to be secured
- The weapon was left in a STUDENT bathroom
- The only reason it wasn’t found by a child is because a janitor happened across it before classes resumed.
- It was left there by a person with no business being in the school
- Who knows what else was left there
- Why is a church using public school facilities?
- How did someone lose their gun for a week without noticing?
- Schools aren’t completely empty of children during breaks.
- This was an elementary school.
- Children have been shooting up schools all over the country.
My guess is it was a cop and that’s why nothing was done, it was given back to him, and everyone wanted to move on.
Yup. It was probably a dipshit cop who realized his gun was missing on Monday. Which I honestly can’t comprehend. Like, I’ve never left my phone in a bathroom stall. I sure as fuck have never left my gun in one.
Was it found in a routine, thorough sweep of the whole school that happens every time after organizations use the building? Or by luck, and it could easily have still been there when kids came back?
Luck
The gun was discovered by a school janitor at Phantom Lake on Sunday, Dec. 21.
What an amazing stroke of good fortune a janitor happened by to clean the facility
I don’t know about where you’re at, but in Seattle they are part time. The parents have to take up the slack and also buy toilet paper.
Schools should be completely free of students during breaks. The gun was left and found on a day where class would not be in session anyways. At no point were students in danger.
All notifying parents is going to accomplish is causing unnecessary panic. The whole incident is a nothingburger and really isn’t even newsworthy.
A guy brought a thing into a place he shouldn’t without any intention to cause harm, forgot it, staff found it and returned it, and now he’s not allowed back. That’s the whole story.
Schools should be completely free of students during breaks.
Both the elementary and middle schools near me allow individual usage of the external school grounds for things like sports and exercise during the day while the school is on break. For many children, schools are the only places nearby that have space for that, there are no parks or public fields.
Schools should be completely free of students during breaks.
Definitely not true. Teachers sometimes have children of their own who might end up there when their parent also is, or Sunday school, or detention, or any number of reasons a student might be at a school
The whole incident is a nothingburger and really isn’t even newsworthy.
If you don’t think about it at all, I suppose. But consider that this church has been renting space every Sunday for over a decade, and that there was at least 1 confirmed person who thought ‘you know what? I am going to bring my gun into a school. Also, said person was absent minded enough to just… leave it. There are a bunch of wild things about that.
What if this was the 10th time it happened but the first time it’s being reported on? It’s a big enough issue that there should be some official mention of it to keep people informed. If it takes a month for the word to get out or if it seems like it was trying to be hidden, it will beg the question what else are they hiding? That’s when the public loses trust in institutions.
But did they check his passport to make sure he’s legal?
Its not a non issue, but its a clickbaity as fuck headline. It would be like writing “Car crashed into daycare center” when someone ran into the fence at 3am on sunday.
It’s about a gun and Americans have an itchy finger to read whenever headline pops up about guns.
Same with Airplane crashes and celebs hiring prostitutes.
This isn’t even an interesting gun story. Dude forgot his gun after using the bathroom during a church service, staff found it the same day and returned it, and now he’s not allowed back. That’s the whole story.
Troll. Hilarious to have a gun and not be responsible about it.
A moving piece of performance art showing how guns don’t kill people /s
