Since mid-January, three teenagers brought loaded handguns to Baton Rouge high schools. Two evaded walk-through metal detectors. The third ditched his gun and bookbag he was carrying it in rather than risk detection, before he was caught anyway.
All three were arrested and charged with crimes. Thanks to Louisiana’s “zero tolerance” laws, the teens are being expelled and reassigned to alternative schools.
Indeed, there has been an uptick in gun incidents this school year even as new walk-through metal detectors are used daily at all Baton Rouge middle and high schools…