3rd-grader takes loaded gun to Detroit-area school

INKSTER, Mich. Authorities say a third-grade student brought a loaded handgun to his Detroit-area school but was stopped before he walked through the doors.

School district spokeswoman Val Hughes says the principal at Daly Elementary School in Inkster was tipped by a phone call before school started on Friday morning.

She says the principal met the boy at the school's entrance. The boy and weapon were removed from school grounds around 9 a.m.

Hughes says no one was harmed and that other students weren't aware of what happened.

No details were released about how the boy got the gun or why he took it to school.

Inkster police told The Associated Press that they couldn't release any information about the incident.

Inkster is about 15 miles west of Detroit.

[judymar14]

In and near Detroit...Why is this a surprise and why should it even make the news? How many other children take guns to school who don't get caught? Illegal guns and those who aren't suppose to have guns in the Detroit area have them. It is the same as having a microwave in the house.

Why aren't gun-control fananics going after them, picketting and carrying signs? To answer my own question, because it's too dangerous.

Why isn't the ATF going after gun-runners who sell guns in cities like Detroit? Get to the core of the problem, where these low-lifes get them in the first place? This I have no answer for.

Poor little guy, he was just immitating his parents. The few decent people in this number one crime ridden city in America have to have guns for protection, though it isn't much when five or more gangbangers are busting through their doors to steal the little they have or mistaking their homes as rival drug dealers.

I do go on, don't I with my opions. Looking forward to other opinions, likewise or not.

[Cowcharge]

Another example of fine parenting.

[skeezix06]

The kid saw the adults around him carry guns, either to solve problems or to make themselves feel safe. It can't be a surprise that he thought he could or should do the same thing and as is the case with the adults, presented a bigger danger or threat to those around him, than whatever he was trying to prevent or solve.

[cptdeuce]

Agree. This same child also sees how adults do drugs, do not work, and have no responsibility. So this child is doomed to become another member of the Lack of Accountability Culture.

[skeezix06]

Maybe, maybe not. The kid's parents may be members of the NRA, foolish members but still members.