So what happens when your family is targeted in a Safe2Tell report?

[.455_Hunter]

I can't believe I'm about to defend Safe2Tell, a system that I hate so much and has taken up hours of my life...

I understand the frustration.

Once again, I think this goes back to the lack public knowledge on what happens on the backside of a Safe2Tell report. Every kid has Safe2Tell reporting procedures drilled into their heads, but crickets on how to handle actually being reported, whether themselves, or with their parents.

Maybe at the start of the academic year, each school district could supply links to the parents explaining the totality of the Safe2Tell program in their area, including how to make reports, and what to expect if their child is implicated in a report, including rights and responsibilities.

[KevDen2005]

No different than any other anonymous allegation that could be fabricated about someone. It all boils down to people...shitty people who take advantage of a system to do their shitty things to other people. And cops usually wind up getting caught in the middle. And then you have the knuckleheads who won't even answer the door so you have to spend more time going back later on...or someone else does...just to try to potentially help save a kid and a family from a bad situation.

I always love when I can't close a report because someone won't answer. My sergeant gets to annoy me on my report is still open and I get start tomorrow's shift with a follow up....it's like a present really

[Bailey Guns]

We do appreciate your perspective Ken.

Yep... You are a much better man than I am, dude. I couldn't take it these days. I seriously don't know how you, and all the other guys and gals like you, put on the uniform every day in today's anti-cop climate. But I'm REALLY glad you do. And I pray for all of you every day...for whatever that's worth.

[Bailey Guns]

I always love when I can't close a report because someone won't answer. My sergeant gets to annoy me on my report is still open and I get start tomorrow's shift with a follow up....it's like a present really

LOL! Like a fruitcake...

[Little Dutch]

Disregard. I misread a post.

[MarkCO]

By the time APD knocked on my door, at 10:45pm, the school had already been informed. I went to the door with a pistol in my hand and once I saw the uniform, I asked to see an ID through the closed and still locked door. Then I saw there were two of them, both in uniforms and a two patrol cars blocking my driveway. I opened the door and stepped outside. The officers were great BTW and basically said they had no choice, and it might be nothing, and then told me what was reported...I called my son down and the officers talked to him, in my presence. The asshat friend of my son who, from another state called it in was a belligerent Karen if ever there was one. One of my son's had said something to the other and had told his friend about it. It was really nothing at all. I had to call the school the next morning before my boys could return. It was like a really bad case of "telephone". I have no doubt there are good uses of this system, but so far, at my boys school, not a single one had been legit. Since I work security at the school, I get notified of all of the reports that come in to the school.

[DDT951]

This happens all the time. Unfortunately in the world we live in, LE will go to the house and let the parents know that someone reported the incident with the child talking about guns. I remind parents all the time, nothing here is illegal, just letting them know that someone was concerned and since they know their kids best maybe check on them and remind them to be careful who they are talking to or talking in front of

When I was in school I generally took reading material (i.e. magazines) for study hall or the silent times when I was done with the classwork.

More than once it was a gun magazine.

Imagine taking Guns and Ammo to a middle or high school today...

But in all fairness, High Times would have got me in trouble then, now the LGTBQ teacher would applaud me and try conversion therapy...

[Hummer]

When I was in high school I took my Anschutz target rifle to school two days a week so I could go directly to early practice at the Arvada Rifle & Pistol Club. I kept it behind the seat in my '54 Ford truck or in the trunk of my '60 Ford Falcon in the school parking lot, and never told a soul about having a gun at school.

Later in college I occasionally carried one or another revolver that had been my grandfathers. Again, never told a soul including the good friends who were often with me.

Only a few years earlier many schools had gun safety programs and on campus rifle ranges. If anyone ever had an inkling of harming someone with a gun their conscience had an understanding of the moral consequences.

My grandmother lived on a farm in rural Iowa and told stories about carrying her rifle to school every day so she could shoot rabbits on the way home for supper. It was in the pre WWI era. The students racked their rifles by their coats in the school entry. I still have her rabbit gun, a Winchester model 1903 semi auto .22.

[KevDen2005]

When I was in school I generally took reading material (i.e. magazines) for study hall or the silent times when I was done with the classwork.

More than once it was a gun magazine.

Imagine taking Guns and Ammo to a middle or high school today...

But in all fairness, High Times would have got me in trouble then, now the LGTBQ teacher would applaud me and try conversion therapy...

When I was in high school I kept my head shaved, it was just easier, and I was a CAP cadet, and loved anything Army. It was not a mystery that I couldn't wait to join the infantry. People knew we had guns in the house and that were an avid outdoors family. Within a day or two after Columbine I was called into the principal's office to make sure I wasn't going to be the next school shooter. I hadn't made any comments or threats. Someone just overheard me talking about army stuff or gun stuff with a friend. Oddly enough a very liberal teacher made a complaint about that on my behalf as one of her students she knew me well and was upset that my teachers weren't asked first since they obviously knew me better than school administration.

So I get the irritation in the matter.

[DDT951]

I’ve

You are somewhat younger than me, but not so much younger you wouldn’t have seen it.

When I was in high school in Colorado.. (late 80s early 90s) if there was a pickup a truck in Colorado (well had Colorado plates or Wyo) it was mandatory that a gun rack was in the back window.

What self respecting truck driver wouldn’t have a gun rack?