{"id":53372,"date":"2022-11-04T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53372"},"modified":"2022-11-04T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:00:17","slug":"uvalde-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53372","title":{"rendered":"Fake calls need stern punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Call it a disturbing sign of these most disturbing times, with tension running white-hot whenever police respond to calls of an &#8220;active shooter&#8221; on school grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with an increase of fake calls, police are being tested in ways they haven&#8217;t seen before. My own view is that those who make those bogus calls need to be sought out and punished strictly for the havoc they are create.<\/p>\n<p>It is a disgraceful symptom of the era we entered a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tribune reported: <em>\u201cEvents like this shake everyone to the core,\u201d said Kathy Martinez-Prather, the director of the Texas School Safety Center at Texas State University. \u201cIt is definitely a situation that is at the top of mind of parents right now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All of this appears to be part of the damage brought by the lunatic who opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. He killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers before police &#8212; <em>finally!<\/em> &#8212; were able to shoot him to death.<\/p>\n<p>A recent fake shooter incident involved Central Catholic High School in San Antonio. Police evacuated the 500 students enrolled in the school. Once they delivered the all-clear, officials said they would make counseling services available to the students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/11\/03\/uvalde-fake-active-shooter-calls\/\">Texas hoax active-shooter calls put parents, police on edge | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a reprehensible consequence of the Uvalde massacre. To think that more of these fake calls are coming in, subjecting students, teachers, administrators and parents to unnecessary trauma simply strains one&#8217;s tolerance for such nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Those who make those calls need to be hunted down &#8212; to the extent that law enforcement is able to find them &#8212; and given the harshest punishment possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it a disturbing sign of these most disturbing times, with tension running white-hot whenever police respond to calls of an &#8220;active shooter&#8221; on school grounds. Still, with an increase of fake calls, police are being tested in ways they haven&#8217;t seen before. My own view is that those who make those bogus calls need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake calls need stern punishment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688,18],"tags":[2037,10054,9934],"class_list":["post-53372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-state-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-school-security","tag-uvalde-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53375,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions\/53375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}