Texas Student Searched For Gun After Non-Threatening Social Media Post

By Cam Edwards

A couple of days ago we had the kid in Colorado who was temporarily barred from school after his mom took him target shooting and he posted about it on social media. A student who saw the social media post utilized the state’s Safe2Tell hotline and contacted authorities, leading to a visit by police and a threat assessment by the school before junior Nate Evans could return to school.

This is starting to turn into an ugly trend. In Iola, Texas a student was searched by police and will be “disciplined according to district policy” for posting an old photo of him shooting with an adult, with a caption that included the word “school”.

“It was a young student, had a handgun in the picture and part of the wording on the picture it had the word “school” in it. So we take that stuff very seriously here. As we investigated we found out the picture was a four-year-old picture,” said Scott Martindale, Iola ISD Superintendent.

“The picture had a caption that mentioned school. It did not threaten the school whatsoever it just mentioned the school,” he explained.

If there was no threat to the school whatsoever then …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms