Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Danger? What danger? Oh, you mean that danger.

Jim Woolford, a police major in Pontiac, Ill., must be an optimistic guy. Heck, I bet when he wakes up in the morning, he thinks he might win the lottery or discover gold in the back yard.

How else could you explain his statement Tuesday, after six guns were sized from the local high school and three people were arrested:

“At no time was any child in danger.”

Uh, Jim, not to split hairs or anything, but any time six — count ’em, six! — guns are found in a school, I’m thinking we've got a problem. In fact, I’m thinking it’s the kind of problem that, well, puts a child in danger.

In fact, Woolford himself also said, “Early this morning we received information ... that there may be weapons at the high school and it was indicated that there were threats the weapons could be used.”

The situation was so dire that the school was locked down. As in nobody goes in or out until the cops knew what they were dealing with.

Again, all that brings the ol’ D word — danger — right back into play.

Fortunately, no one was hurt at the school.

But if I’m a parent, and I learn that my kid is in a school with a mini-arsenal, I believe I will go ahead and skip all the interim steps and proceed immediately to worry … about danger.

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