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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,915 posts)
Fri May 19, 2023, 07:23 AM May 2023

Man with an AR-15 has been showing up for weeks at a school bus drop off for elementary school kids

Both sides

Tonight on @wbaltv11: A man with an AR-15 has been showing up for weeks to a school bus drop off for local elementary school students.
Parents say their kids are afraid, the man says he’s protesting @GovWesMoore’s new gun control law. You’ll hear from both sides at 5+6pm.
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#NEW: A man with an AR-15 has shown up to an elementary school bus stop for weeks, and one parent tells the I-Team he’s afraid for his kids and worried about where it’ll lead.
"I think that lives could be lost (or) people could be harmed,” he said.
Story: https://wbaltv.com/article/man-with-gun-severn-school-bus-stop-anne-arundel-county/43932236








I-Team: Parents concerned about man with assault rifle at school bus stop

Updated: 9:43 PM EDT May 18, 2023

Tolly Taylor
WBAL-TV I-Team Reporter

SEVERN, Md. — Parents are concerned about a man who is regularly spotted carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at a school bus stop in Severn. ... Jamie Sparrow, a Severn Elementary School parent, recorded a cell phone video Wednesday showing the man with an AR-15 in his hands at the bus stop where his 6-year-old daughter gets off. Parents said the man, J'den McAdory, has been there for drop-offs for weeks.

"They train to hide if this thing enters their school, and it's right there," said parent Michael Haley. "How can they not be a little nervous about that? How can it not give them anxiety?" ... Haley said his family had guns growing up. Still, he's been driving his three kids home from school using a different route recently, so his kids don't have to see the man standing there.

Sparrow said he has seen the man there for three weeks. ... "I feel like if we don't do something about it now, then we'll be talking again, and it'll be too late at that point," Sparrow told the I-Team. "I think that lives could be lost (or) people could be harmed."

McAdory said what he's doing is not about scaring parents or children -- it's about protesting the recent gun control measures Gov. Wes Moore signed into law. ... "Guns can be safe if it's controlled by the right person," McAdory said. "I really wasn't coming out here for the kids. I was coming out here to show people that this is legal."

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Man with an AR-15 has been showing up for weeks at a school bus drop off for elementary school kids (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
Bet if that were a gated, wealthy neighborhood, he would have been dealt with. niyad May 2023 #1
Or if his skin tone was a little darker GopherGal May 2023 #14
So, scaring the shit out of children is this guy's thing? How low can you go? Joinfortmill May 2023 #2
Parents are tolerating this? WTF? lamp_shade May 2023 #3
How is this not intimidation? Diamond_Dog May 2023 #4
He's obviously not wrapped tightly. Cattledog May 2023 #5
Put him on a bus and send him to Texas, he'll be right at home. walkingman May 2023 #6
this prick wouldn't last long GenXer47 May 2023 #7
Good thing he's not in drag shelshaw May 2023 #8
This idiot is scary LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #9
States have passed laws to make this kind of demonstration legal. Chainfire May 2023 #10
Negotiating with a terrorist orthoclad May 2023 #11
He's flashing his dick substitute at children. Midnight Writer May 2023 #12
My district would have given me permission to either move the stop... love_katz May 2023 #13
 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
10. States have passed laws to make this kind of demonstration legal.
Fri May 19, 2023, 09:59 AM
May 2023

Why would anyone be surprised how it plays out?

orthoclad

(4,728 posts)
11. Negotiating with a terrorist
Fri May 19, 2023, 10:30 AM
May 2023

"McAdory said that earlier Thursday, he came to an agreement with school officials to no longer publicly protest during school pickup or drop off times."

also: " (McAdory) said, 'You guys are looking at me like a bunch of scared bowling pins,'" said Sparrow. "Wow, I guess you're the bowling ball if we're the bowling pins."

A Black citizen speaking, at 1:50.

love_katz

(2,799 posts)
13. My district would have given me permission to either move the stop...
Fri May 19, 2023, 02:29 PM
May 2023

Or hold the kids on the bus until parents came to meet them. What he's doing is unacceptable. I spent over 23 years driving school busses, and over 21 years training new drivers. This man is an a$$!

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