A 15-year-old student was arrested after allegedly bringing an AR-15 style rifle and ammunition to Bostrom High School in Phoenix. Authorities say the teen faces a number of felony charges. KPNX’s Jonathan McCall reports.
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#Guns #AR15 #Crime
He was planning another mass shooting
But, but… 2nd amendment
We need the 2nd amendment to protect ourselves from nut jobs like this.
@thefox47 No one said that this kid was a school shooter so far. Maybe he was just trying to open carry after seeing people do it on TV. Who knows, I really am no longer surprised at the latest gun nonsense.
@thefox47 yet you and your guns have done nothing to sloe crime or mass shootings, if you pay attention wou would notice police are targeted and killed and they actually have training
That is what happens when you follow a 250 year old law and thinks nothing has changed in life regarding this.
@Chris- Still living in the 18th century. Much has changed since then but I guess too many politicians are still living there.
Yee haw maga
Yeah stop the nonsense.
No one wants to do that. At least, no one with any power to do so has the courage to try.
American guns yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Another MAGA nut in the making.
Compliments of America’s assbackwards white supremacy created second amendment.
Seems like that school should step security up.
@Bryan Siegfried that’s not how any of that works 😂
@Bryan Siegfried there’s a difference between a publicly funded institution and a publicly accessible organization… Actually we’re opting not to live in a police state by not depending on the government for our protection. But if our are forced to attend school, they should be safe. I don’t think having a right and having our kids is mutually exclusive.
@sudokode I am not talking about where security would be required by law. I am saying that if we need metal detectors at schools, it would be very reasonable to consider them in many more places.
@Bryan Siegfried why? People can actually have guns at Walmart and in church. Schools are completely defenseless… Not only because they’re full of children, but also because of gun free zones that prevent civilians from possessing a firearm within 1000 feet of a school. You know who that law stops? The guy at the Walmart across the street who could actually end the threat immediately. Not the bad guy. If there’s one thing criminals are known for, it’s commiting crime…
@OberynTheRedViper what’s an idea you have to make them harder to get? Background checks are extremely thorough
SO glad they caught this guy; too often, these gun totin’ kids end up killing a bunch of other kids and maybe some teachers. How deluded or detached do you have to be to bring a weapon to school?
Just enough to be the product of whacky FAR-RT Ads and Preaching of Pro violence.
Anither teen testing limits – to get the attention he craves…… was caught just in time – thank God!
Teachers, too.
If it’s okay to bring that gun to the rest of society’s functions – then it’s not very weird at all. Then the rule of the school is the exception.
Problematic though, then,..
@Chris true which exactly explains the problem with so much guns
Great Parenting. Don’t blame it on everyone… who’s promoting guns and violence? Hmmmmnn.
– (see comment above.)
@sudokode Santos.
@Sproo Town I don’t think one guy in Florida you just heard of a month ago is causing all the gun violence in the country 😂
@sudokode The usual vapid twittery from the miscreants….
*TRUMP SAY OOK! OOK! WAH! WAH!* *TRUMPANZEE SAY OOK! OOK! WAH! WAH!* Read a book once in a while.
@sudokode Politicians. Gun lobbyists. Republicans,..
“Funny” how parents have been chosen to be justifiably blamed, but none of the aforementioned above,.. 🤔
Since MAGA wont do anything about the guns, I suggest we give out guns to LGBT, Black, hispanics, asians etc. Lets see how fast they will change the law
Reagan tried that as a governor of CA.
HANDS UP IF YOU ARE BORED OF AMERICANS SHOOTING EACH OTHER.
Every country on Earth has mental illness BUT ONLY AMERICA HAS A MASS SHOOTING EVERY DAY.
Give the teachers body armor and AK 47s.
Yasssss what a deterrent 👏
No….. No thanks.
Although some teachers already have this.
And bulletproof vests to all students
Nice regulated militia you have there.
@thefox47 too bad all these legal gun owners cowardly hide any time someone brings a gun near them
@Timothy OBrien It’s not that they’re hiding, it’s that it’s a gun free zone.
Hah I know, the watered down version that got approved wasn’t super clear, so let’s look at Madison proposed amendment:
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.”
Sounds suspiciously more interpretable as an individual right… Whether or not you think so doesn’t really matter in the end though because SCOTUS finally affirmed that reasoning, making you one of the freest people in the world whether you like it or not 🤷
@sudokode The British are no longer coming
@Tenenno the brits have never been a concern. They’re actually the reason for the third amendment, not the second.
Tiktok challenge: carrying an AR-15 and walk around in school hallway with it like a textbook
That’s not true. You can’t even post videos of guns on TikTok. Not even a picture of one. It goes against community guidelines
@undrwatropium You can show guns in a “controlled environment” and even that is not well enforced.
Lock him up till frogs do fractions 👍
That’s the commondenominator. Frogs.
I’m sure he only brought it for show & tell…🙄
I was thinking the same thing…
@Aaron Brummett You do realize I was being sarcastic, right?
Why tf would they do that!? High school kids dont have show and tell
Funny, 50 years ago I did bring a gun to school for show and tell/speach class. In California.
@truthseekers not surprised. Very different world back then
@ryerye sure was
Most likely one of those crazy liberals that moved from California
We obviously dont have enough guns to keep us safe.
Only in America 👍🏽
Yeah, everywhere else they have to resort to pipe bombs and molotov cocktails. The US should really get more civilized 🤦♂️
Well, America does have one of the worst publuc mental healthcare systems on the planet.
@thefox47 America’s mental health system may be weak, but it is hardly the worst in the world. But few countries mix poor mental health with a surplus of firearms like the US does.
@thefox47 that is obvious by the number of people that belong to the trump cult
Actually it’s happened in other Countries as well.
Horrifying
Really
Parents
I feel like. The more. Media. Puts these. School shooting in tv the more it happens
Blame it on the media. Not the. Guns. Gun. Industry. Not the politicians. Lobbyists. Society, nor anyone else. Certainly. Not the. Punctuation.
Sorry for the facetiousness,..
Little man had a lunchbox with not sandwiches but bullets….come the F on – get your children, please and thank you🖤
How does a child get his hands on such a weapon?
“Responsible gun owners”~Republicans.
@S N That sounds beautiful
East
You can 3d print them at home as well. It’s practically untraceable
@American Teacher they used to have hunting rifles n stuff at Walmart, I think most stores have gotten rid of them amidst the recent escalation in gin violence
this needs to end there’s a line between the Second Amendment and this crap i mean really and its because of the NRA Republican Party
This is why we need more guns. The world is dangerous.
Hopefully its the last days.
Yeah,well, Americans already have more guns than people and it doesn’t seem to be stopping these mass shootings. You know what reduces these incidents, strict gun controls and a huge reduction in guns,or does the second amendment also state that you get a free coffin and funeral with each gun bought?
@Richard Gal if you think like that, you’re not that off from these students who bring them to school,..
USA has more guns per capita than any country in the world. It ought to be safer now then, by that argument,.. 🤔
The right of the people to use automatic firearms, grenade launchers and C4, shall not be infringed
Kids got more guns than sense these days
America has more guns than people these days.
USA too. More guns per capita than any country in the world. More than one per person. It’s not strange that kids would act anything different. Kids do what grown ups do – not say,..
@Chris troll bot botter.
Stupid Stupid Stupid!!!
AR-15 with ammo. Sounds like a hunting expedition, murder shooting spree?
What can this kid possibly say in his legal defense? Just carrying it around?
You can’t hunt w an AR-15. There’d be nothing left
@undrwatropium WRONG!!! SO WRONG!!!
My parents gave me the assukt rifle fir Christmas.
Yeah, just for self-protection
@undrwatropium No not true. A standard deer rifle like a 270 or 30-06 will cause more damage than any ar15. Stop listening to media nonsense
Well..hopefully
How did he get on campus with gun – He walked through the open gate like he does everyday.
Not sure about the gun laws where he’s from, but if it was okay to bring that gun with you in the rest of society – which it sometimes is – then it was a few steps away from something that has been chosen to not be okay,..
@Chris Arizona has very loose gun laws you don’t need any type of permits just pass a background check to get the gun. You can open carry and conceal carry no permits required.
This is America
Yeah, and to political 24/7
Arrested….don’t you get a medal for doing that in America?
Some probably would applaud, unfortunately,..
It’s Arizona. You can get an AR-15 at McDonalds and get a toy and french fries with it.
Parents need to be charged. Child should lose ability to own a firearm FOR LIFE.
In that case society needs to be charged too,..
We should revoke your right to post with that dumb a comment 😅
LOOOOOOOL, blaming parents instead of the Republicans
Trump ! ! will Pardon him . MAGA ! !
when dumb boy has dumb parents, likely Republicans, who are so pro-gun they lack common sense in storing guns safely… this could well be another school shooting then the parents would say their boy “was always a sweet boy not capable to hurt anyone” BS…
And the police have arrested the parents… right? We have to, and demand, the parents are held accountable as well.
@Bryan Siegfried No ghost will stop a killer..
He is old enough to be held accountable he isn’t 3 where parents should be charged he can go to prison himself
@80s rocked So why is the response only hopes and prayers
@Bryan Siegfried I agree , good thoughts for others are good , I’m just saying actions are stronger than prayer. No disrespect , you pray , it’s your rite & I won’t hassle you. To each their own.
@Bryan Siegfried
They don’t know Jesus was not a white man 😃
Keep the guns coming.
weak, bring a minigun, or a tac nuke, then ill be impressed
WHAT?
Ammo in the lunch box wow
The parents should be questioned and defend held accountable for this. This is definitely a scary situation.
Society should be held accountable,..! ☝️
It’s the society that allows for this culture to exist.
LOL BRO I SWEAR, PEOPLE BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO BLAME ANYTHING BUT GUNS. WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY LETS HIGH SCHOOLERS GET AR-15S XDXDXDXD
Definitely a MAGA kid.
“Actually there is proliferation of psychos in the United States”……..tell it like it is! 😜
More like a proliferation of gross ignorance – and hate.
Was like OMG… Then i saw it was Phoenix and was like … Meh.. not surprised… not at all.
I used to take my guns to school but that was 40 years ago! 😂 We actually had a training class at school where we learned to shoot and handle guns safely.
Society has become less stable since then. Not because having guns to school ever was safe, but in your case it apparently was less problematic. But everything changes. And as inequality, social issues, tension, amount of people and students and other things grow – so will the risk of problem. Everything becomes more compromised.
Same with the cars. When they first came, they went in few numbers, slow in speed, 20 mph perhaps, had wooden structures and no seatbelts. Traffic was without rules, cameras, lights.
What perhaps once was okay for you, won’t be for the next generation. Because things change.
Forty years ago you weren’t being groomed by a drag queen.
Gross
@Chris too many psychopaths now
We were allowed as well in the back glass of the truck. But we and our adults were more responsible even teachers back then. We threw bones and settled fights not carried grudges and slung lead !
And yall parents requested and asked if police officers and security guards to be removed from the schools just one question if schools have no security guards and police officers whos gonna protect and keep safe the schools dont blame the school the principal blame the parents yall requested and asked if both police officers and security guards to be removed
It was his emotional support gun.
Dodged a bullet or more today. Could have been something worse. Great work whomever you were.
According to Gun Advocates if all the students and teachers had AR-15 it wouldn’t be an issue
We need Xray machines at every school entrance to detect real guns an 3D printed ones. Protect the students who are actually going to school to get an education.
Metal detectors work just fine. Even plastic guns need a metal barrel
Honestly, I agree. Simply banning guns would not do the trick since there are millions out there already.
Give free bulletproof vests to all students and equip all teachers with semi-automatic rifles as well
@C C You assume all teachers want to carry a firearm. Also, what if the teacher is the shooter? Everyday, Americans go to work angry and take it out on their colleagues. We protect our politicians at every state and federal building with armed officers, X-ray machines AND metal detectors but we leave our kids defenseless
@C C And dig trenches in the schools, and everyone gets a hand grenade. 😣 You’re insane.
😂😅😂😅😂😅😅 only white kids can do that in 2023
Seriously, the best equipped mass murderers on the planet and you’re unsure of source?
Oh joy
Repeal the 2nd Amendment and save lives 🇺🇸
What’s a kid doing with an AR15?
What is any civilian doing with a repeater rifle????
He could be a good kid with firearm, ready to protect his classmates from the bad guys
They should celebrate whoever helped prevent a tragedy and give them some kind of public award.
Good Job on those that reported it, but I hope the authorities prosecute the teen’s parents.
Kid brought AR-15 with Ammo to School. It was a sign ppl what was gonna happen.
I’m sick of the media acting like an ar15 is more deadly or scary that a compact 9mm.
Kids get caught with pistols at schools all the freaking time, and it barely gets a mention
Pistols are used in 95% of all mass shootings. Rifles only make up 3%.
Stop trying to make legal ar15 owners into some kind of boogeyman.
Yep. The fascist reTHUGliKKKans win again! They were right: getting as many weapons of war into the hands of civilians was a great idea!
Wow, one of the few prevention stories in todays barage of daily mass shootings. Thank god they found it before he used it. Again though back to the main problem of gun access to people who shouldnt have them
The ” right ” to own a gun is always more important than everything else, right? What Second Amendment right was being exercised here?
But it’s show and tell
You don’t understand. That was a good kid with a gun just waiting for the bad kid with gun. You should give them all guns for full school safety.
Pretty stupid
Imagine the fear on those kids when they find out they were minutes away from becoming a statistic.
Yup
Something about this Doesn’t make sense there are way too many children getting their hands on just. I have difficulty believing that there are that many stupid people who just left guns where kids could get to them at least a couple of these I think. Someone gave the gun to the child and it’s just being hidden from everybody.
Duh wake up
Make the parents felons also. wouldn’t the kid they “raised” be a deadly weapon? At the very least that would be assualt w deadly weapon, providing fire arms to minor, Child endangerment, some type of manslaughter charge. Thank God they caught him. Hopefully they put him where he belongs. Something tells me the parents will claim innocence.
“Little Johnny would never”!
Ban guns!
Actual patriots protect fellow citizens and children not their moronic toys.
Insane.
Keep up those gun laws, you’re doing a bang up job, literally 🤬
“The gun lobby’s Interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of frauds, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies — the militia — Would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.“
Conservative
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Judge Warren Burger
The republicans can’t even trust teachers to teach. But they want to give them a gun.
They love the 2nd Amendment, but won’t attend a gun conference unless it’s gun free.
Everything you post is cartoon level of thinking.
The American courts will decide he had the right to bring it wherever he wants.
Where would he ever get the idea he could just carry an ar15 anywhere maybe. Republican propaganda
7 of the top 7 states with the highest homicide mortality rate? The Republican-led states of Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri and Arkansas. 9 of the top 11 states with the lowest per capita state spending on law enforcement? The Republican-led states of South Dakota, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa, Arkansas, Indiana and Kentucky.
Sadly America’s love affair with guns will certainly lead to future school shootings; Not if just when will the next one happen. In this case it sounds like a tragedy was avoided.
Dude kept ammo in his lunch box…. Da fun…
Back in the 80s the best lunch box was an ammo box.
If your child brings an AR-15 to school, you failed as a parent and should have your legs sewn together to prevent further bad kids.
THE EPIDEMIC CONTINUES, AND THE WEAPONS SUPPLY CHAIN CONTINUES AS WELL. 😡👎🖤
What type of QUESTION IS THAT ??? IT IS ONLY one reason
For ANYONE to take an AR _15 .
Only one reason 😢
A semi we got lucky i thought it was a auto 😅😅
Welcome to America. Home of Guns an Apple pie. 😢😮. Frightening isn’t
dis ni66ah got ah pink shirt on😂😂
But it’s Gun Free Zone and teens are not allowed to possess weapons. How is this possible?
Government Funded Media and Marxist Dems Projecting their Violent extremism.
AR-15 … in a violin case? Or a viola case? Or a cello case? Or the case of a bass viol?
America is so uncivilized
Welcome to USA heres your gun