Threats and School Shootings Create a Tense Few Days for Wisconsin High School Students
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 -- 1:33 PM
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) -Two Wisconsin teenagers, 91 miles apart, shot by police officers inside their high schools within 24 hours.In Waukesha, the student had two pellet guns. In Oshkosh, it was a blade. That's more than enough, but it isn't all. A gun that was later found to be fake was reported at Waukesha North High School the same day shots were fired in the city's south side high school. In Sparta, classes were called off Tuesday after a student, and their parent's firearm, went missing. In Germantown, police are meeting with parents of a student who made threats later deemed not credible to two schools there. And on Sunday, West Bend parents were told police were investigating an alleged online post about a school shooting scheduled for the next day, but evidence of it was never found. In all, teenagers in at least eight high schools across Wisconsin were stung with terror within three days this week, in some cases leaving parents and school officials helpless and police in a position of using deadly force on children.
Gov. Tony Evers, whose own children graduated from Steinert's high school, said though the threats in schools across the state weren't similar in seriousness, they are emblematic of the terror lurking as shootings continue with horrifying regularity. On the political spectrum, responses from both sides of the aisle were as you’d expect, with Democrats calling for stricter gun laws and Republicans stating what has been enacted is sufficient and offered their thoughts and prayers.
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