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PA: Grief, a gun and a stairway standoff
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"In the darkened stairwell at Northampton Area High School, Max Brotzman sat alone May 25 with a loaded rifle and a drawing he had done hanging above him. Brotzman described the drawing as a smiley face."
"But Assistant Principal Maureen Sproul, who spent 20 minutes trying to persuade the senior to give up, said 'it was really a skeleton face.'"
"Sproul told police that with the rifle pointed in her direction and the odor of a 'firecracker bomb' in the air, Brotzman said he 'was really [expletive] up,' according to court documents from his arraignment Tuesday on charges of possessing a weapon on school property and making terroristic threats." ... |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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