North Texas schools are staving off potential copycat attacks following the Uvalde massacre, which left 19 students and two teachers dead.
, according to FOX West Texas. Police began investigating the threat and subsequently arrested the suspect.On Thursday, police were dispatched to an Arlington elementary school following reports of a shooting. Officials determined that a parent’s gun had accidentally fired and theSchools in other parts of the state are reporting similar occurrences.
. Law enforcement searched a car parked at a high school and recovered a shotgun, ammunition and two handguns.
It’s frightening and disconcerting that local school districts are having to experience these threats in the wake of what’s happened this week, Rena Honea, president of the Alliance-AFT teachers union, told theEven though she’s not opposed to the Second Amendment, Honea pointed out that 18-year-olds can buy such weapons when they aren’t even old enough to legally drink.
“My hope is that people would take a good hard look at this incident happening again, and decide do we ever want to see this again,” she said. “And if not, then they’re going to have to stop being complacent and go to the polls and vote.”, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism.
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