Students Can’t Believe The Ridiculous US School Backpack Ban, Improvise With Random Household Items
Even though the pandemic and remote learning has stalled school shootings across the US, there have still been 16 of them in 2021. However, the country seems to be prepared to do anything but take away guns from its citizens.
Recently, four schools in Rigby, Idaho, banned backpacks from their halls after a 13-year-old student was found with a gun in hers.
Monica Pauley, a spokeswoman for Jefferson School District 251, said this rule applies to Rigby Middle School, Farnsworth Middle School, and both Rigby and Jefferson High Schools.
“Elementary schools will still be able to have backpacks,” Pauley explained. “We are doing this as a precautionary measure.”
Like in some sort of dystopian novel, students who have to adhere to this new policy have been improvising with laundry baskets, shopping carts, and other random items.
Students were reportedly asked to carry their books to the school and place them in their lockers. Teachers and administrators are planning to assist students where needed.
School District Superintendent Chad Martin issued a press release on the matter:
“We ask our parents to partner with us in keeping all of our students safe. Please keep your firearms safe and inaccessible to students. If you notice changes in your student’s behavior, attire, or personality notify us so we can help your student,” he said.
The last school shooting in the area took place in May when two students and one adult suffered non-life-threatening injuries at Rigby Middle School.
Then, a 6th-grade student pulled a handgun out of her backpack and started shooting in a hallway before going outside, said Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson. Luckily, math teacher Krista Gneiting was there to stop her.
Gneiting was preparing her students for their final exams when she said she heard a gunshot. She said she looked outside her classroom and saw the school’s janitor lying on the floor in the hallway. The teacher shut the door as she heard two more shots.
“I just told my students, ‘We are going to leave, we’re going to run to the high school, you’re going to run hard, you’re not going to look back, and now is the time to get up and go,'” Gneiting recalled during an exclusive interview with ABC News.
The girl shot another victim in the hallway before moving outside and shooting the third victim. Gneiting was helping one of the students who had been shot when she saw a girl holding a gun.
“It was a little girl and my brain couldn’t quite grasp that,” she said. “I just knew when I saw that gun, I had to get the gun.”
Gneiting looked at the girl and asked, “Are you the shooter?”
“I just walked up to her and I put my hand over her hand, I just slowly pulled the gun out of her hand and she allowed me to,” the teacher said. “She didn’t give it to me but she didn’t fight. And then after I got the gun, I just pulled her into a hug because I thought, this little girl has a mom somewhere that doesn’t realize she’s having a breakdown and she’s hurting people.”
Education officials are forbidding their students from using bags and purses while on school grounds in other parts of the country, too.
KPIX5 reported that high schools in Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and other states have all sent word to parents that their children will have to find other ways to carry their books this fall.
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And people can’t believe what they’re seeing
so, in case someone brings gun hidden under his/her clothes, will they ban clothes too?
Yes. Or rather, they will ban pockets.
Easy for the girls. Women clothes do not have real pockets anyway.....
My school went into lockdown once because they thought somebody was selling machine guns. It turned out it was just a bag of candy canes.
how do you confuse candycanes and machine guns?
Oh well, no pockets needed: https://youtu.be/5ZCiYLeN3Fo (I think the original video was even longer and showed one or two more shotguns/rifles, but most of the copies were age restricted on YT 🙄)
They’ll ban students before they ban guns
Hehe
Only for the guys. The girls would be required to wear ankle length dresses with long sleeves and a high collar.
id love to see that kekw
That was exactly what I was thinking, and there you are ^^
This is so sad. The school should ban guns, not BACKPACKS!
The problem is that the US has embraced an endless supply of guns with minimal regulation, and the very unsurprising result is a huge number of stolen, unregistered or otherwise illegally obtained guns. If they banned guns, you'd get all of your law-abiding citizens turning them in, and then we'd be left with a whole lot of criminals more brazen than ever. Actually getting rid of guns in the US is much much much more than banning them. Unfortunately, too many US citizens think that the only solution to the problem is by adding to the problem. Basically it's a Mexican standoff with 330M participants. Of course EU nations generally don't have many illegal guns because they never went through a phase where they decided to flood the nation with more guns than people without any kind of accountability.
That's why they need buyback programs and strong criminal penalties for anyone with an unregistered/unauthorized gun. It can be done, but the politics of the USA wouldn't permit it.
People are ignorant and no amount of wisdom and caring will ever make these people see how horribly ignorant they are. Some people don't value humanity. They care more about guns than people.
actually, the us has the 4th amendment, so they cant ban guns
People can't even agree to get a vaccine that could save their life. The idea of a consensus on guns is - at this point - laughable.
Agreed. And at least this isn't every school in the nation. Yet. *sigh*
I came here to point out how dumb these comments were above, but you said it here too. “The US,” didn’t ban backpacks. That school did, remember? The US should ban or limit guns, I agree. But it’s still just pretty dumb to come to your conclusion as if the government of the whole country made that school rule.
But by refusing to mandate gun control, even after the Sandy Hook massacre of 6 year olds, the govt is responsible. Schools are losing govt funding bc they are mandating masks be worn, I’m sure they’d lose funding if they even mentioned, much less blamed and banned guns. Yes, OBVIOUSLY they should never be on school property, but that would “infringe on my freedums” and I guarantee backlash and lawsuits. Parents (guess which) are a MAJOR reason why school districts keep getting more and more fundie, racist, etc.
Well, states with minimal gun restrictions will ban backpacks. The US really does need stricter gun laws, but half the Senate would revile the very suggestion. A gun (or even assault rifle) ban? Forget it.
Um. to be fair...they are banned. Guns are banned on all public properties, which includes schools. The backpacks obviously aren't the issue here, but just wanted to point out that guns are already banned at all US schools.
Except for the security guard that just murdered that girl at a school in Long Beach that got into a fistfight.
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No, they should simply allow the use of the national mental health database to actually stop the mentally ill from buying guns. Right now it is illegal for the mentally ill to buy guns, but there is no way for sellers to verify it beyond simply asking the buyer and taking their word for it. So we are left with a situation where privacy rights of the mentally ill trump the right to life of everyone else. And guess what...the common factor in every single mass murder in the US has NOT been guns, it has been mentally ill perpetrators. Every single one.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/28/517799119/trump-repeals-rule-designed-to-block-gun-sales-to-certain-mentally-ill-people
Yeah you're right, guns didn't have anything to do with it. Are you serious? Guns are the problem too. The fact that you act like guns weren't involved in all of these cases. Tells me your mental health is not rational or healthy.
The "mentally ill people cause gun violence" was a myth created in the 60s to hurt the civil rights movement. Malcolm X, along with other prominent Black leaders, were declared schizophrenic as a way to lock them up legally. In reality, substance abuse and abuse cause gun violence.
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Yes like we banned murders and how Chicago did that? Why don't we just ban stupid people... surely there wont be any after that.
The whole ass GOP would disappear, like the snap!!! From your lips to god’s ear, Tobin 👍🏼
Amen!
Then explain how Chicago... basically all Liberal.. .is such a shithole?
People like you will tell yourself anything to continue on with the guns and violence. You don't care and it's sad how brainwashed you are.
People like me grew up with weapons and there was no violence in our community because we grew up with respect. People like me keep a weapon on us at all times as a type of insurance. We pray to God we never have to use it, but people like you are thankful when we have to.
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Pearl it's our rights as Americans to bear arms. That is the one thing you cannot take from Americans. It's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people. Maybe better parenting and locking guns up so kids don't have access to it. Too many stupid parents on the planet now a days too busy being their friend instead of their parent.
Just f**k off
Yeah we're pretty sure you're one of the stupid parents. You're Trump trash. Be gone.
Look who's talking brain dead Biden supporter. No wonder this country is in trouble. And at least I'm smart and don't have any brats. I hope you don't. If you do everyone should pray they don't turn out like you.
Last time I checked a gun kills the person. You know by the bullet going into the person and hurting or killing them. If guns didn't exist there would be less violence and death. If I was in a room with a crazy person. That crazy person only had a knife and no gun. Your chances of survival go up. How do people not get this?
Because thats actually not true by measure of every study on earth. In the Middle Ages (prior to guns), the murder rate depending on the source ranged from 20 per 100,000 people to 110 per 100,000. Wanna know where its at now? 5. Literally 5 per 100,000. Its so amusing how people like you claim these clown show stats, but never actually have the brain cells to see if you are even close to the truth. Also fun fact, per the CDC and FBI, defensive use of a firearm (used to actually save a life) is between 500,000 and 3M times per year just in the United States. The issue is that schools and parents don't teach respect anymore. Your parents certainly didn't teach you critical thinking skills.
I also don’t understand it. How something insane like that made it into the “rights” list. Who was crazy enough to allow it? And yes, much harder mass murder people with a stick.
So they ban backpacks. Because that's the only things a gun can be in? Because a gun couldn't possibly be in any other container students use? Might as well just ban students from having that specific backpack or that colour of bag, logic will be just as effective as this ... Pointless move just so they can say they have done something, without addressing the actual issue
Just going from memory here, but I believe several of the major school shootings were executed by people who were not going through their normal school day - they showed up after it started and carried their weapons in trenchcoats and duffel bags, not concealed in backpacks. Often the weapons were too large for backpacks anyways. This rule really does nothing...
So like, exactly like after 9/11, deflect and distract, don’t address the cause? Well, at least we can count on our govt to be consistent on one things through the years.
None of them do. Theatre indeed.
It's the TSA approach: don't fix anything, just increase safety theater.
so, in case someone brings gun hidden under his/her clothes, will they ban clothes too?
Yes. Or rather, they will ban pockets.
Easy for the girls. Women clothes do not have real pockets anyway.....
My school went into lockdown once because they thought somebody was selling machine guns. It turned out it was just a bag of candy canes.
how do you confuse candycanes and machine guns?
Oh well, no pockets needed: https://youtu.be/5ZCiYLeN3Fo (I think the original video was even longer and showed one or two more shotguns/rifles, but most of the copies were age restricted on YT 🙄)
They’ll ban students before they ban guns
Hehe
Only for the guys. The girls would be required to wear ankle length dresses with long sleeves and a high collar.
id love to see that kekw
That was exactly what I was thinking, and there you are ^^
This is so sad. The school should ban guns, not BACKPACKS!
The problem is that the US has embraced an endless supply of guns with minimal regulation, and the very unsurprising result is a huge number of stolen, unregistered or otherwise illegally obtained guns. If they banned guns, you'd get all of your law-abiding citizens turning them in, and then we'd be left with a whole lot of criminals more brazen than ever. Actually getting rid of guns in the US is much much much more than banning them. Unfortunately, too many US citizens think that the only solution to the problem is by adding to the problem. Basically it's a Mexican standoff with 330M participants. Of course EU nations generally don't have many illegal guns because they never went through a phase where they decided to flood the nation with more guns than people without any kind of accountability.
That's why they need buyback programs and strong criminal penalties for anyone with an unregistered/unauthorized gun. It can be done, but the politics of the USA wouldn't permit it.
People are ignorant and no amount of wisdom and caring will ever make these people see how horribly ignorant they are. Some people don't value humanity. They care more about guns than people.
actually, the us has the 4th amendment, so they cant ban guns
People can't even agree to get a vaccine that could save their life. The idea of a consensus on guns is - at this point - laughable.
Agreed. And at least this isn't every school in the nation. Yet. *sigh*
I came here to point out how dumb these comments were above, but you said it here too. “The US,” didn’t ban backpacks. That school did, remember? The US should ban or limit guns, I agree. But it’s still just pretty dumb to come to your conclusion as if the government of the whole country made that school rule.
But by refusing to mandate gun control, even after the Sandy Hook massacre of 6 year olds, the govt is responsible. Schools are losing govt funding bc they are mandating masks be worn, I’m sure they’d lose funding if they even mentioned, much less blamed and banned guns. Yes, OBVIOUSLY they should never be on school property, but that would “infringe on my freedums” and I guarantee backlash and lawsuits. Parents (guess which) are a MAJOR reason why school districts keep getting more and more fundie, racist, etc.
Well, states with minimal gun restrictions will ban backpacks. The US really does need stricter gun laws, but half the Senate would revile the very suggestion. A gun (or even assault rifle) ban? Forget it.
Um. to be fair...they are banned. Guns are banned on all public properties, which includes schools. The backpacks obviously aren't the issue here, but just wanted to point out that guns are already banned at all US schools.
Except for the security guard that just murdered that girl at a school in Long Beach that got into a fistfight.
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No, they should simply allow the use of the national mental health database to actually stop the mentally ill from buying guns. Right now it is illegal for the mentally ill to buy guns, but there is no way for sellers to verify it beyond simply asking the buyer and taking their word for it. So we are left with a situation where privacy rights of the mentally ill trump the right to life of everyone else. And guess what...the common factor in every single mass murder in the US has NOT been guns, it has been mentally ill perpetrators. Every single one.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/28/517799119/trump-repeals-rule-designed-to-block-gun-sales-to-certain-mentally-ill-people
Yeah you're right, guns didn't have anything to do with it. Are you serious? Guns are the problem too. The fact that you act like guns weren't involved in all of these cases. Tells me your mental health is not rational or healthy.
The "mentally ill people cause gun violence" was a myth created in the 60s to hurt the civil rights movement. Malcolm X, along with other prominent Black leaders, were declared schizophrenic as a way to lock them up legally. In reality, substance abuse and abuse cause gun violence.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Yes like we banned murders and how Chicago did that? Why don't we just ban stupid people... surely there wont be any after that.
The whole ass GOP would disappear, like the snap!!! From your lips to god’s ear, Tobin 👍🏼
Amen!
Then explain how Chicago... basically all Liberal.. .is such a shithole?
People like you will tell yourself anything to continue on with the guns and violence. You don't care and it's sad how brainwashed you are.
People like me grew up with weapons and there was no violence in our community because we grew up with respect. People like me keep a weapon on us at all times as a type of insurance. We pray to God we never have to use it, but people like you are thankful when we have to.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Pearl it's our rights as Americans to bear arms. That is the one thing you cannot take from Americans. It's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people. Maybe better parenting and locking guns up so kids don't have access to it. Too many stupid parents on the planet now a days too busy being their friend instead of their parent.
Just f**k off
Yeah we're pretty sure you're one of the stupid parents. You're Trump trash. Be gone.
Look who's talking brain dead Biden supporter. No wonder this country is in trouble. And at least I'm smart and don't have any brats. I hope you don't. If you do everyone should pray they don't turn out like you.
Last time I checked a gun kills the person. You know by the bullet going into the person and hurting or killing them. If guns didn't exist there would be less violence and death. If I was in a room with a crazy person. That crazy person only had a knife and no gun. Your chances of survival go up. How do people not get this?
Because thats actually not true by measure of every study on earth. In the Middle Ages (prior to guns), the murder rate depending on the source ranged from 20 per 100,000 people to 110 per 100,000. Wanna know where its at now? 5. Literally 5 per 100,000. Its so amusing how people like you claim these clown show stats, but never actually have the brain cells to see if you are even close to the truth. Also fun fact, per the CDC and FBI, defensive use of a firearm (used to actually save a life) is between 500,000 and 3M times per year just in the United States. The issue is that schools and parents don't teach respect anymore. Your parents certainly didn't teach you critical thinking skills.
I also don’t understand it. How something insane like that made it into the “rights” list. Who was crazy enough to allow it? And yes, much harder mass murder people with a stick.
So they ban backpacks. Because that's the only things a gun can be in? Because a gun couldn't possibly be in any other container students use? Might as well just ban students from having that specific backpack or that colour of bag, logic will be just as effective as this ... Pointless move just so they can say they have done something, without addressing the actual issue
Just going from memory here, but I believe several of the major school shootings were executed by people who were not going through their normal school day - they showed up after it started and carried their weapons in trenchcoats and duffel bags, not concealed in backpacks. Often the weapons were too large for backpacks anyways. This rule really does nothing...
So like, exactly like after 9/11, deflect and distract, don’t address the cause? Well, at least we can count on our govt to be consistent on one things through the years.
None of them do. Theatre indeed.
It's the TSA approach: don't fix anything, just increase safety theater.