A Ragsdale student attempted to bring a loaded handgun into Ragsdale High School.
Fortunately, school staff and the security officer – with the help of a metal detector – discovered the weapon and prevented the student from entering.
The student has been apprehended, but the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department is being tight-lipped about the details.
The department reported on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 5, that the incident happened that morning.
The events transpired at about 9:15 a.m. on the campus at 1000 Lucy Ragsdale Dr. in Jamestown. According to the press release from the Sherriff’s Department, the student was “immediately stopped by school staff after triggering an alert from the body scanners.”
An inspection of the student’s backpack revealed a handgun. When the gun was found, the student snatched up the backpack and ran, attempting to get off campus. However, the student was quickly spotted by Sheriff’s Department deputies, who confirmed the gun was in the backpack and found that it was loaded.
Since the person is a juvenile, the Sheriff’s Department isn’t offering many details. State law forbids the Sheriff’s Department from releasing much information concerning the juvenile, the investigation or even the outcome. Any action taken by a juvenile court may be sealed.
This Sheriff’s Department’s release stated, “The incident was brought to a successful conclusion thanks to teamwork between the staff at Ragsdale High School, the School Resource Officer, and patrol deputies from the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office. This incident also highlights the benefits of body scanners which were recently implemented in all Guilford County high schools.”
Anyplace that “needs” a metal detector, or law enforcement on campus, isn’t a place for children. Homeschool your kids if you love them. We never heard of an SRO, we never saw a deputy or officer on campus unless it was someone’s dad passing through or eating lunch. We had shotguns & rifles in plain view in the windows of trucks on campus, yet no one ever got threatened, no one ever got shot, no one ever had one stolen, no one gave a damn. We didn’t have today’s cultural disasters or libtard policies. Schools are not the same institutions they once were.
Please, tell us how great government ran schools are doing…
Which ‘libtard’ policy is to blame for school shootings? Are you saying he should have been allowed to bring a loaded gun into the school like ‘the old days’? Or are you just pointing blame without any real concern for the real underlying issues? Such as increasing poverty due to the increasing the separation of wealth, or the mismanagement of our public-school system, or the deep history of racism in our country, etc… etc… etc…
chris I don’t cap your name for a reason having been in county schools in the “old days “. We were never allowed to bring guns into school. Did we have them in he back windows of our vehicle yes but never on school property ever hear of a school shooting “back “. No never we knew better. Quit bringing up race, equality, social economic diversity, that has nothing to do with these issues. This involves parenting and life skills. You are such a liberal loser
Oh yeah chris don’t you find it ironic the slo joe had gone back to the TRUMP plan for the border. What say you
Biden’s plan for the border hasn’t changed. He wants Congress to update the laws to allow more options for dealing with the border. Title 42 is a lifeline but NOT a permanent or complete solution. What are you going on about? Am not seeing families separated and losing of children in the system? Not seeing kids in cages?
We have to scrape our boots everytime you open your mouth and that mess spills out. Small, community based schools worked for the most part. You can do the math on all the wonderful policies that have come along over the past 200 years and see how much better (LMAO) things are. Racism only exists in the minds of those that have to bring it up all the time. Read a Thomas Sowell book and learn something helpful.
I fully understand your intolerance of people with difference of opinions. Race relations have certainly improved…but by no means is racism no longer an issue that isn’t limiting ability of people of color to lift themselves out of poverty or to receive a fair shake in business. Happy to site any number of examples if would value a real conversation.
No problem here. Just do it LEGALLY
Oh, I find Thomas Sowell (I have read several of his articles but none of his books) to be an overly political economist who spins up interest in his books by using confrontational statements to gain attention versus conducting actual research. (Economics is a data centered science). He hasn’t written a serious peer reviewed paper based on research since the 60s. Guess he is ok making money by being out of date and becoming a tool of the modern conservative movement.
I encourage you to read Peter Temin. He teaches at MIT and has conducted some good research on the topic of racism and economics.
There should be a law against this oh wait there’s lots of laws against this. I’m sure the liberal dumbocrats will want to write a few more
He dint doo nuffin!
Right! Checkpoints at entry/exit points at all schools. See how easy it can be to virtually eliminate these school shootings. Just add armed guard(s) on duty all day (and night?).
Funny what Republicans like to spend money versus what they whine about when it comes to spending money. Sad really.
Guns in schools are still very rare in but make a lot of noise when they show up. Do we really need to turn schools into prisons to keep them safe?
Do you think the teacher who was shot feels that way.
A 6 year in Virginia old took a gun to school Friday and intentionally shot his teacher. I suppose he couldn’t read the gun law. The teacher is still in the hospital in critical condition
because he couldn’t read the gun law it’s her fault – for failing to teach him to read. i should a ben a layer yer.
People will kill other people BAMN. It is human nature. The parents of this child are responsible for this.
the headline 50 years from now will be : student with loaded gun tries to leave ragsdale high school