Solution to highschoolers carrying guns: free WiFi!

[CCWFacts]

Of course, if a child doesn't have free WiFi and a laptop computer, he will bring a gun to school! The solution is to give them free WiFi and laptops!

I wish I were joking, but this is a serious proposal for the problem of "children" routinely bringing guns to Berkeley High.

Forum readers and members, this is why you can't argue with most liberals about gun control. The debate is off the deep end before it even starts. "Solutions" are more counseling (mega bucks for various social services non-profits), more freebies like WiFi and laptops (mega-bucks for vendors of these "free" items), more social justice (tera-bucks of wealth transfers), more money for the teachers' union (giga-bucks of wealth transfers).

What does Berkeley do with "children" caught with guns on campus? Any one of us found to have a concealed weapon within 1000' would be charged with a felony, but if a socially disadvantaged child does it, he gets counseling and gets to come back to school.

My solution? "Children" who are caught with guns on campus should be charged as adults, with whatever are the most serious charges that could apply. Ideally they should be charged as adults in the Federal system. Their only plea option should be if they identify whoever supplied the gun with enough evidence to convict that person, and that person should be federally charged.

But of course in Berkeley, these hyper-dangerous thugs are the victims and need more of our money.

[Bhobbs]

Just bury your head deeper in the sand. Sooner or later it will be so deep you won't be able to see the real world anymore.

[Stainned]

What a joke.

[pointedstick]

Nor of course could it even be remotely possible that any of these children might legitimately fear for their lives but are forced by law to attend a dangerous school full of people who want to harm them… No, they must be infants who need more coddling and handouts.

[MasterYong]

It's Berkeley- what do you expect?

I'm amazed their solution to kids bringing guns to school isn't: give kids acid.

[Wherryj]

What a joke.

It makes perfect sense. No one who would handle a firearm would never use a computer. They are mutually exclusive. Thus, the reason that there are no gun forums on the internet.

[kel-tec-innovations]

what a joke. I'm sure if they get to use WiFi to play COD they won't shoot up the school?

[berto]

Typical. It's far easier to spend money than confront serious issues that are uncomfortable for people to discuss. Why yes, lets provide free laptops and wifi to kids instead of asking why their parents had them and why those parents continually fail to monitor and discipline their offspring. Here's a newsflash for the lady with too much time on her hands but not enough common sense - I went to BHS in the days before laptops and wifi and kids had guns at school back then.

[Dreaded Claymore]

When I actually read it, it outlines a perfectly sane general idea: poor people commit more crimes than rich people. But then it uses that general idea to get waaaay too specific, and thinks, "Well, rich people have broadband Internet access, and computer games, but poor people don't, maybe that's the cause!"

If you want to, you could probably help reduce crime by giving poor people stuff, but you'd want to give people things that make it easier for them to feed, raise, and teach their children well, so that their children have more options than joining a gang. "Moar internetz!" isn't going to do that.

At the bottom of the article, it says that the author is a volunteer college essay coach at Berkeley High School. I hope there's someone supervising her, who can tell the students that this kind of stream-of-consciousness writing isn't appropriate all the time.

[707electrician]

So if I bring my guns where I am not supposed to I will get free internets? That is awesome because comcast is way too expensive

[N6ATF]

Nor of course could it even be remotely possible that any of these children might legitimately fear for their lives but are forced by law to attend a dangerous school full of people who want to harm them…

Yep, if I was actually going to school 8 hours a day and not independent study around the time of Columbine/Santana/Granite Hills HS, I might have legitimately feared for my life.

Schools even up to the point I graduated in 2002 were porous as the levees in New Orleans. Anyone could go in and out of the gates at any time of the school day, almost completely unchallenged (I got challenged once in 2001-02 when I was a TA, and flashed my homemade ID which was accepted, but if I were nefarious, they weren't armed Israeli-style, and couldn't have stopped me.) Plus, being utilitarian, I had a SAK on my belt and nobody said a peep.

[CaliB&R]

N6ATF, I went to Granite Hills and even knew the shooter, he was classmate I did a few projects and talked with. Imagine the looks I got from the people that knew I talked with him often, lol. Anyways, the school sent in counselors to speak with groups of students. I scared my group and counselor when I said schools never have and never will be safe cause you can't stop the first bullet. A crazy person hell bent on violence will find a way. To this day I'm still surprised I wasn't recommended for additional counseling sessions.

While I believe in some social programs, I also believe most won't ever solve the problems they were created to fix. These people will still carry their guns even after they get thier free laptop and wi-fi.

[SanPedroShooter]

I thought "the solution to high schoolers...." was the draft?

[Wherryj]

So if I bring my guns where I am not supposed to I will get free internets? That is awesome because comcast is way too expensive

You can only get Comcast level internet bandwidth if you have an NFA stamp and promise not to bring your full auto to class.

Semi-autos only receive DSL based WiFi. Revolvers and single shots will get dial up.

[inbox485]

The bigger question that has been all but brain washed from society's head is why not allow guns in schools. I had teachers that used to have a revolver in their desk, and would quite fondly reminisce about the good ole days when kids could bring a gun to school for show and tell or store their shotgun in their locker and nobody would think twice about it.