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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 29, 2013, 03:36 PM May 2013

Security Guard At N.Y. High School Arrested For Threatening To Blow Up School

Source: TPM

Police in a New York community said Tuesday that a security guard at a local high school was arrested for threatening to blow up the school building, the Journal News reported.

Kenneth A. Carter, a 51-year-old security aide at Nyack High School in Upper Nyack, N.Y., was arrested May 22 and charged with making a terrorist threat, which is a felony.

Clarks­town, N.Y. police Sgt. Glenn Cummings said that Carter made the threat to a colleague at a time when he was facing disciplinary action from the school. The reason for the discipline is still unclear.

“In a bit of anger, he expressed to a co-worker that he was going to go home, get his guns and blow the place up,” Cummings said, as quoted by the Journal News. The co-worker "spoke out" about Carter's remark, according to the Journal News, leading to the security guard's arrest. Police said he was unarmed at the time of the arrest.

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Suburban New York school guard threatens to go home for his guns and come back and blow up the school.

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Security Guard At N.Y. High School Arrested For Threatening To Blow Up School (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP
I'm starting to think amuse bouche May 2013 #1
I grew up very close to here leftynyc May 2013 #2
This is why arming civilians is a bad idea...... Swede Atlanta May 2013 #3
If we would only arm students they could have taken out the guard... Ohio Joe May 2013 #4
You get what you pay for. nt valerief May 2013 #5
Arming guards. What possibly could go wrong. marble falls May 2013 #6

amuse bouche

(3,657 posts)
1. I'm starting to think
Wed May 29, 2013, 03:41 PM
May 2013

there is no such thing as good guys with guns.....

Only gun-humpers on the verge of losing their shit

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
2. I grew up very close to here
Wed May 29, 2013, 03:47 PM
May 2013

A sleepy little village just on the Rockland County side of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Lots of cool little shops. This sent chills down my spine.

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
3. This is why arming civilians is a bad idea......
Wed May 29, 2013, 03:53 PM
May 2013

We know even law enforcement contains people with mental problems so not arming civilians such as teachers or security guards is no guarantee there won't be problems but.....

I see no benefit in arming teachers or putting a rent-a-cop with a gun at every school door. They will NOT be effective in stopping the next attack on a school or any other place for that matter.

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