16 Year old student suspened after disarming gunman

[Dr. Snubnose]

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16 year old student suspended after disarming gunman

0 SethSeth 3:39PM
Sixteen Year-Old FL Student Suspended For Disarming Gunman & Saving Students


A sixteen year-old Florida student was suspended this week after disarming a gunmen on a school bus and saving fellow students.
It was against school rules.

A Florida high school student wrestled a loaded gun away from another teen on the bus ride home this week and was slapped with a suspension in return.

The 16-year-old Cypress Lake High student in Fort Myers, Fla. told WFTX-TV there was “no doubt” he saved a life after grappling for the loaded .22 caliber revolver being aimed point-blank at another student on Tuesday.

“I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there,” said the suspended student, not identified by WFTX because of safety concerns. “Not taking no pity.”

The student said the suspect, a football player, threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.

Authorities confirmed to WFTX the weapon was indeed loaded, and the arrest report stated the suspect, identified by WVZN-TV as Quadryle Davis, was “pointing the gun directly” at the other student and “threatening to shoot him.”

That’s when, the teen told the station, he and two others tackled the suspect and wrestled the gun away. The next day, all three were suspended.

“How they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?” he asked.

The school’s referral slip said he was given an “emergency suspension” for being involved in an “incident” with a weapon.

So my question is.....what is doing the right thing anymore? I read this and was thinking what is the right thing anymore? ....seems like even when things are done right they are wrong these days....Go figure.....I for one applaud the student's decisive actions...I believed he saved lives by taking that action. Maybe 911 would have been different if more people decided to act rather than thinking it's against the rules. When did saving your own life or the lives of others become "against the rules"

Doc :)

[DRKBC]

Classic case of a bureaucrat filling out a form rather than even trying to understand or at least put forward a case for what could have happened had these brave people not stepped up. How dumb.

[razorsharp]

*facepalm*

[Blerv]

Very sad stuff .

[Jeremy_A_Neel]

I think they would rather the gunman "safely" kill one student, than go berzerk when confronted and kill more. Who's to say he wouldn't go berzerk either way though?

[Evil D]

So the kid who threatened someone's life with a loaded gun got the same punishment as the kid who stopped him from killing someone. That's justice these days. The only way to stay out of trouble is to look the other way with complete apathy. If I were the parent I would sue the crap out of that school and donate all the money to a public gun safety and awareness program for all the students of that school so every other kid there would have the courage to act as he did.

[Guy Vanderveken]

Wow

[BAL]

Things like this make me think that I am living in a "fake" reality show,
like the Truman Show. I keep looking for Ed Harris's voice to come out
of nowhere and say that all of this was just a tv show, to get people's
reaction.

How can things like this be real. Seriously. This is unbelievable. It makes
a person want to go approach the school officails, just to try to figure out
what the **** is going on in their minds.

Bravo to the young man that saved the other teens lives. If you do the right
thing, you can sleep at night. The suspension will be over soon and you can
walk proudly while the school officials will have to live with their "decision".

[SQSAR]

Man, you can't make this stuff up.

[BAL]

I wonder what would be the reaction by the main school official that suspended
this young man if the situation was different. For fun, lets say that the student with
the gun was pointing it at Mr. School Official and threatening to kill him or her.

All of a sudden the student jumps in and saves Mr. School Officials' back side. Would
the hero be suspended then.

What it the student that was originally being threatened was the School Official's
own son or daughter. How dare you, young man to jump in and try to be a hero and
save my daughter. I've got your backside now.

[kbuzbee]

Not as heroic, but equally insane:

http://www.inquisitr.com/492410/paper-g ... phia-girl/

A 5th grade girl accused of being a murderer for bringing a paper gun to school...

I loved the line about searching her for paper bullets....

Ken

[bh49]

Somebody lost sense of right and wrong in that school. Kids must be honored and they are punished.

Not as heroic, but equally insane:
http://www.inquisitr.com/492410/paper-g ... phia-girl/
A 5th grade girl accused of being a murderer for bringing a paper gun to school...
I loved the line about searching her for paper bullets....
Ken

Ken,
I am afraid that in this case we are dealing with school staff with paper brains. Probably the girl is lucky that she wasn't arrested. This can be a next step along with possession of imaginary guns, knives and so on.
Roman

[chuck_roxas45]

I'm putting on my tinfoil hat because it sounds like somebody wants another shooting to further their gun grabber agenda.

[1623]

This is exactly why we have an entire generation of people who would rather film a fight or any other situation where intervention should take place, rather than actually intervening and helping one another.

Disregard, or worse, punishment of courage and human decency only perpetuates this problem. This young man and the other two who helped him should be heralded for his act, yet supposed intelligent adults have denounced him right along side the student he disarmed.

Disgusting.

[rosconey]

society is a mess

[The Mastiff]

Time for a bureaucrat to go look for another job. That kind of stupidity and negligence should not be rewarded with any further paychecks. Any others who went along, approved , or recommended the action should be removed and barred from school grounds. They should be escorted out by security in front of laughing students and parents and hopefully the media.

Anything less is unacceptable.

[Evil D]

Time for a bureaucrat to go look for another job. That kind of stupidity and negligence should not be rewarded with any further paychecks. Any others who went along, approved , or recommended the action should be removed and barred from school grounds. They should be escorted out by security in front of laughing students and parents and hopefully the media.

Anything less is unacceptable.

And the sad fact is, this won't happen, because nobody cares. People don't stand up for their rights anymore, and when people do they're made out to be extremists. I would be first in line to protest if this happened in my town.

[tonydahose]

My response was a bunch of expletives but i can't type them here. I'm just disgusted.

[enduraguy]

My response was a bunch of expletives but i can't type them here. I'm just disgusted.

Me too.

[Donut]

The people who make the rules don't think about this stuff.

If it was the rule maker or one of their family members with the gun pointing at them, where would the safety concerns be?