Officials find knife in school locker : Winona Daily News

Me wrote on Oct 19, 2007 5:56 PM:

" No CT, I didn't know what you meant. You come off with the most off the wall statements that no body can know what you are saying. "

CT Rock wrote on Oct 18, 2007 9:33 AM:

" Oh be quiet, you know what I meant. Those parents that like to show off their guns and seem itching to pull the trigger on anyone that looks at them the wrong way. I've never trust those people that wear camoflauge all day and practice shooting their semi-automatics in their backyards in plain view of children. "

Me wrote on Oct 17, 2007 9:32 PM:

" Once again CT Rock has come up with another whacked statement. Folks who have guns in their houses are now mentally unstable? So, our founding fathers were mentally unstable? Your comments lack logic and sense. "

JustCannotResist wrote on Oct 17, 2007 5:18 PM:

" CT-You're being a bit harsh on those parents, me included, who raised their children in the spirit of hunting and fishing. Evening ATVing. We had guns in the home. Naturally we had knives. Steak knives. Filet knives. Hunting knives. The kids always relish the time outside and so do we as parents. We're not mental, just different than your choices. Don't lump everyone with a gun in the same raft; it makes things tough on everyone. Even your kids who may have prefectly normal friends. "

The Ultimate Hustler wrote on Oct 17, 2007 4:48 PM:

" This isn't a blog. It's a message board. I'm entertaining. You're annoying. Schydes rules. Move to a different town. "

CT Rock wrote on Oct 17, 2007 4:13 PM:

" Hustler your illiterate comments shouldn't even be approved. You're a joke to the WDN blog. Schydes should be shut down. "

The Ultimate Hustler wrote on Oct 17, 2007 3:28 PM:

" Yo CT Rock... I bet your kids totally hate your over protecting and are probably out smoking rocks behind Schydes "

J.D. wrote on Oct 17, 2007 3:26 PM:

" CT - I actually agree with you on this. If parents were able to spank and punish their kids like we were when we were kids, I don't think that we would have the problems in society that we do. Now if you spank a kid, they cry child abuse. I also believe that video games and computers have taken the place of just good old fashioned playing outside. Our kids are lazy. I don't however believe this kid should be expelled if it was truly an oversight on his part and can be confirmed by his parents. Like a previous poster said, when I was in HS, the guys would go hunting in the morning and bring their guns to school in their cars and no one thought twice about it. "

CT Rock wrote on Oct 17, 2007 2:26 PM:

" I don't let my kids hang out with other kids with parents that enjoy having guns or weapons at their houses. I've never met an adult that collect guns or knives that was mentally stable. "

Reasonable wrote on Oct 17, 2007 1:40 PM:

" CT, I agree with you for the most part. I believe parents with either poor parenting skills or none at all are to blame for most of the problems. I'm usually pretty hesitant to blame TV or Radio, but I do agree that they both push the edges more and more every year. "

CT Rock wrote on Oct 17, 2007 12:54 PM:

" Media, television, and bad parenting with no moral values is the problem and reason kids attack other kids in schools. In the past a kid was taught to toughen up and grow past getting bullied or teased. Now days parents will overreact, send them to a behavioral health counselor, make them feel weird and confused, and then expect them to come out ok. Parents are too sensitive to their children and not teaching them to be mentally hardened and tough to ignore adolescent teasing. And too many parents are owners of firearms kept in easy accessible places for these teens in angst. A knife is a knife. "

Reasonable wrote on Oct 17, 2007 12:30 PM:

" Well CT, if you want to look at it that way you are eventually going to run into the problem of what justifies a weapon. If you go to the extreme, like in prisons, darn near anything could be used as a weapon. Wouldn�t it make more sense to try and fix the "why" and not the "how"? In other words, Why are students killing each other? There will always be ways to do harm to others, there always has been. The difference is, 20 years ago students didn�t seem to want to kill each other so often. So, I ask, what has changed? It certainly isn�t the availability of weapons. If anything the availability of weapons has decreased, but the level of violence has increased. Why is that? "

PerfectStranger wrote on Oct 17, 2007 12:27 PM:

" We all make mistakes. We all have different perspectives. Some people have different perspectives right here in these comments. I notice that CT Rock posted one comment referring to college students, then later posted a serious 'zero tolerance' type comment. I've done the same thing myself here in the past - posted both a lighthearted comment and a more serious one under the same article. To me, it proves that there is more than one way of viewing this situation, and taking a hard line might be wrong. "

CT Rock wrote on Oct 17, 2007 9:54 AM:

" If you bring weapons onto school grounds you could be expelled immediately. There is no excuse for bringing weapons into a school where kids like mine could be harmed. "

JustCannotResist wrote on Oct 17, 2007 8:58 AM:

" If I htink back, our yearbook pictures had guys and gals posing with their hunting rifles or shotguns. It showed their hobby, just like the basketball players or anyone else. Now you're considered guilty until proven a hunter. That's not right either. "

El Uno wrote on Oct 17, 2007 8:52 AM:

" Rules are rules... "

Reasonable wrote on Oct 17, 2007 8:48 AM:

" I agree with Nicole, it's too bad. When I was in high school it was common for us to bring our shotguns to school (leave them in the car) if we were going duck hunting after school. Now that would be totally unacceptable. "

CT Rock wrote on Oct 17, 2007 8:45 AM:

" Probably handed down by a college student or something. "

Nicole wrote on Oct 17, 2007 8:15 AM:

" It sounds like it's sole purpose is for fishing ..... it's too bad it has to be like this. "

PerfectStranger wrote on Oct 17, 2007 7:29 AM:

" I don't know if the presence of a knife in his locker was a coincidence or if other students knew he had it, but I wonder why a rumor was started that he had a gun with him in school. The superintendent will most likely look into that also. "

JustCannotResist wrote on Oct 17, 2007 7:24 AM:

" Does not sound like there was any malicious intent. It sounds like a mistake. The kid likes fishing, give him a break. "

Ghost wrote on Oct 17, 2007 1:21 AM:

" I'm not sure how I feel about this. Any knife is obviously a dangerous weapon, but on the other hand it sounds like this very well could have been an honest mistake on the student's part. I guess it's up to the superintendent to figure that one out. "

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