Subject: Re: It's also possible to know something's flawed and like it.
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Posted on: 2010-01-12 09:12:00 UTC

He's established to be a kid, which would make being an undercover police officer rather unlikely. That said...

Before the late 1980s (and even more so before the mid-1960s), having firearms inside schools in the United States was not as unusual a situation as it is today. For a while there were still rural schools where, during hunting season, it was not unusual to simply have rifles carried around in the halls and stored in lockers during classes, and today those same areas will often have high school students simply store them in car trunks in the parking lot. One discussion of such is available here, if I got my link formatting right. It's currently unlawful in nearly all situations, but that doesn't necessarily stop people from doing it. Joel Myrick's 1997 actions would be one example of this.

Some rural (and rare suburban) schools also have have rifle teams, both air rifle and .22s. These are steadily being scaled down or outright removed, but you can find them places where they'd not be expected still. While the firearms here technically must be locked up pretty well or constantly supervised, the situation in the second arc would probably cause most people to reconsider. There are also occasionally trusted students who... ahem... 'accidentally' get access to the key or combination to these firearms.

It's still a pretty decent level of improbability, but not a matter of complete randomness.

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