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Related: About this forumMan with an AR-15 has been showing up for weeks at a school bus drop off for elementary school kids
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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 hes protesting @GovWesMoores new gun control law. Youll hear from both sides at 5+6pm.
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Parents say their kids are afraid, the man says hes protesting @GovWesMoores new gun control law. Youll 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 hes afraid for his kids and worried about where itll 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 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
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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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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
So, scaring the shit out of children is this guy's thing? How low can you go?
Joinfortmill
May 2023
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niyad
(119,309 posts)1. Bet if that were a gated, wealthy neighborhood, he would have been dealt with.
GopherGal
(2,387 posts)14. Or if his skin tone was a little darker
And didn't you just know he'd be wearing a red ball cap?
Joinfortmill
(16,259 posts)2. So, scaring the shit out of children is this guy's thing? How low can you go?
lamp_shade
(15,074 posts)3. Parents are tolerating this? WTF?
Diamond_Dog
(34,413 posts)4. How is this not intimidation?
Police! Do your jobs!
Cattledog
(6,291 posts)5. He's obviously not wrapped tightly.
Ticking time bomb.
walkingman
(8,247 posts)6. Put him on a bus and send him to Texas, he'll be right at home.
GenXer47
(1,204 posts)7. this prick wouldn't last long
in my town.
shelshaw
(609 posts)8. Good thing he's not in drag
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,851 posts)9. This idiot is scary
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)10. States have passed laws to make this kind of demonstration legal.
Why would anyone be surprised how it plays out?
orthoclad
(4,644 posts)11. Negotiating with a terrorist
"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.
Midnight Writer
(22,922 posts)12. He's flashing his dick substitute at children.
love_katz
(2,750 posts)13. My district would have given me permission to either move the stop...
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$$!