9mm handgun (Photo Courtesy: Soul Rider, Flickr)
This is the second time this year a student has been caught with a gun in Dublin. Three incidents have been recorded in Macon and one in Warner Robins. The students involved range in age from 9 to 17 years old and the schools have been urban, rural, public and private.
Michael Dorn is the former Police Chief for the Bibb County School System and a nationally recognized expert on school safety. He says many problems start outside of the classroom.
“Most school weapons assaults center around a fight. And, so, if you have 25 fights in a high school in a given year we would suggest that you really may want to revisit that issue.”
Dorn says Georgia does a good job training its teachers but some schools still get an “F”. He worries that budget cuts could only make the problem worse.
