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Published Date: 30 January 2008
By FIONA MACLEOD
A POLICE investigation has been launched after a cache of replica firearms was found inside a Glasgow school.
Police are understood to have been alerted to the discovery by a concerned teacher at Blairtummock Primary in Easterhouse.

Teacher and pupils were evacuated amid fears that the weapons were real.

A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said: "A number of weapons were discovered in a cupboard in the school by a member of staff.

"They were examined and have been found to be replicas."

Parents were divided on who to blame, with the education board, school and police all facing their ire.

Louise Sinclair, 27, who has three children at the school, said: "I do not think it was handled very well."

Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, said he will continue to press Westminster for tougher gun laws.



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  • Last Updated: 29 January 2008 11:06 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Anne,

Eaglesham 30/01/2008 07:42:56
Sounds more like an outbreak of mass hysteria.
Pupils and teachers evacuated? It wasn't a bomb, for heaven's sake.
Where was common sense in all this?
2

ddmc,

30/01/2008 08:52:19
I have to remember to leave a plastic gun in the toilets next time i fancy a day off work
3

S-t-e-v-e,

Glasgow 30/01/2008 09:45:20
It wouldn't surprise me if the 'toys' turned out to be something another teacher had confiscated from pupils.
4

Bascule,

30/01/2008 09:56:37
When you have an organisation run by, and catering for teachers and other hysteria-led groups what do you expect? In any other society we would point at them and laugh our heads off.
This lot need serious psychological evaluation before I would entrust them with the education of any child.
And the po-faced polis -"a number of weapons were discovered". No there weren't, there were a number of toy guns found. The fact that they were replicas could have been, let me see, quickly noticed by a member of the teaching staff.
What a fine example of weak, wishy-washy, wimmin-led hysteria to present to children - who probably are wetting themselves at the reaction they've created.
5

Gozo Bill,

30/01/2008 10:15:49
Why didn't the head teacher (Mrs S Delahunt)take police direction on the matter? Perhaps a quick phone call to the local desk sergeant would have resulted in a police visit in an unmarked car to look at what had been found.

No, far better to empty the school, get the beat bobbies in (enough to terrify most kids) then man the phones to get hold of all the parents to let them know that their children had been released from school to wander the streets - no doubt due to a terrorist incident.

Can head teachers be sacked for incompetence, I wouldn't like this one near my kids in the event of any incident.

6

Doreen,

The Cyber Shebeen 30/01/2008 11:25:50
The Janny did it!
7

McMicrogal,

30/01/2008 11:53:45
#4 to be fair replica guns are extremely realistic looking - hence the number of cases of people being shot by the armed response unit for being dumb enough to wave the things around in public.

I have to agree however that the response was ludicrous. A gun is an inert item that will generall harm no-one if it is lying on a table with no human interaction. It only becomes a danger when some muppet picks it up and waves it about.
8

Allan(handofgod137),

30/01/2008 12:07:08
Another misleading header from the scotsman, toys are not forearms.
9

Allan(handofgod137),

30/01/2008 12:07:27
Sorry firearms
10

Bascule,

30/01/2008 12:39:07
#8, #9 it may have been a Freudian slip, but you were probably right the first time - it's all that journalists and other drum-bangers seem to be capable of strengthening. Onanists all.
11

sam the god,

30/01/2008 12:44:58
toy guns in easterhouse makes a change from real ones
12

BrightonRox,

England 30/01/2008 13:39:15
Police aggression against sectarian minority in Easterhouse. Guns, balaclavas? They were copying their Dads. What next -ban singing the Soldier's Song and Fields of Athenry.
13

Bascule,

30/01/2008 16:09:06
Look at this - the BBC even sent a camera crew to interview numpties

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7210000/newsid_7215700?redirect=7215750.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1

 

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