SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio student pledged to “commit a violent act” using an AK-47 assault rifle and other weapons if school officials didn’t meet a series of demands.
North East Independent School District spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor says the unidentified 17-year-old intended to take control of the intercom system Monday at Madison High School during morning announcements. She says if his demands weren’t met, he was planning to use the loaded AK-47 that he hid in a bathroom and two loaded handguns he stashed in his backpack along with ammunition.
His demands weren’t clear Monday.
School officials were alerted by the boy’s parents. They awoke Monday to find him missing, along with theweapons they kept in the home.
The student was taken into custody after administrators found him with his backpack.
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It would be interesting for the parents to explain to the public why they had an AK and two pistols available to what now appears to be a pretty mixed-up kid. Were they Wayne LaPierre devotees worried about carjackers and knock-out gamers, rapers and haters and campus killers etc.? Or maybe they planned to defend the power grids? Why did this make sense, parents? Everyone was lucky this time and three guns are at least temporarily in safe storage. That leaves about 299,999,997 floating around out there. Will their owners at least try to use their goddamn heads and be halfway responsible in storing them?
The lad’s mistake was trying to commendeer the intercom system, which is not a constitutionally protected act like shooting his classmates and/or teachers.
Why? To protect themselves from criminals.
“School officials were alerted by the boy’s parents. They awoke Monday to find him missing, along with [the weapons] they kept in the home.”
Weapons they kept in the home to make themselves ‘safer,’ no doubt.