Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation

Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation

Wisconsin police shot and killed a student who officials say came to a local middle school with a gun. The student never got into the school, but as a precaution the entire district was put on a lockdown late Wednesday morning.

Students have since been reunited with their parents, some of whom waited up to five hours for their children to be dropped at a bus storage center in Mount Horeb, a village about 20 miles south-west of Madison, the state capital, according to WMTV 15 news.

No other students or staff were injured in the shooting, Josh Kaul, Wisconsin’s attorney general, said during a Wednesday news conference.

  • quindraco
    157·
    2 months ago

    Would you prefer the police wait for the kid to shoot someone first?

    So you’d prefer to be put in prison now, rather than having society wait for you to actually commit a crime?

    • smackjack@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      If someone is running towards your wife with a knife, are you going to wait for him to stab her before you shoot him?

      • quindraco
        1·
        2 months ago

        My wife? I’ll sit back with some popcorn and watch him get dismantled.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      311·
      2 months ago

      It’s a crime to carry a firearm without a carry permit in Wisconsin. It’s also a crime to bring a weapon to a school in most states.

      Edit: No, it’s not ok that the police shot the kid. I’m just saying there was a crime committed.

      • quindraco
        155·
        2 months ago

        A capital crime where we can skip the trial and just execute you without due process? Without you entering the school?

        It’s a crime to carry a firearm without a carry permit.

        That’s next-level false, partly because it’s state specific. You know this incident happened in Wisconsin, right? They let teens hunt deer with rifles, and while they need a hunting permit to do so, they don’t need a carry permit.

        In fact, if the rifle was unloaded - and there is no evidence it wasn’t - it can legally be carried on school grounds in order to reach a hunting area.

      • havokdj@lemmy.world
        26·
        2 months ago

        You don’t need a carry permit in the vast majority of states unless you conceal it in a holster on your person.