I'm Sorry But... (Score 1)

What happens when you're in an airport and you stand there and say "I have a bomb". Well, this is what happens when your a student in school and you threaten to kill people/persons with a gun. It doesn't matter that Sean *didn't mean* what he said - he said it. Any maybe 5000 miles away in another school, another sixteen year old like Sean says the same thing... and he didn't get kicked out, but he really did mean it. How can any administrator who is responsible for the safety of hundreds of kids in a school not take that type of a comment seriously. People SHOULD be concerned when this type of a comment is made. I bet if Sean said "I'm gonna beat the crap out of you" he would have possibly faced a few days suspension. But he didn't threaten that - he made a much more serious comment than that. He said if he was holding a gun in his hand at that moment, someone standing in front of him would be dead. If I walked into my place of employment tomorrow and made that comment to a co-worker who was bothering me, I bet I would 1) be fired immediately, and 2) quite possibly be charged with uttering death threats. You just don't do that! I for sorry for the family having to go through this, as the family believes Sean would never do this, HOWEVER: Any school admin who DOESN'T take that kind of a comment seriously should lose their job.