2-year sentence for teacher who fired gun in classroom

[DonViejo]

Source: WDBJ7/AP



DALTON, Ga. (AP) — A teacher who fired a gun inside a Georgia classroom has been sentenced to two years behind bars.

News outlets report that 53-year-old Jesse Randal Davidson was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in a Whitfield County courtroom to multiple charges, including criminal damage to property in the first degree. Once released from prison, Davidson will be on probation for eight years.

Davidson had been a social studies teacher at Dalton High School when he barricaded himself inside a locked classroom in February and fired a single shot from a handgun. No students were in the classroom at the time, and Davidson surrendered after a school resource officer talked him out of his classroom.

The incident happened two weeks after 17 were killed in a shooting at a Florida high school.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. Didn't this guy seem mentally ill?

[Laffy Kat]

3. Yes, although he knew he was breaking the law.

Unless he receives help in the slammer, he's going go come out even more disturbed.

[Initech]

2. The right wing wants more guns in classrooms. What could go wrong?

[malthaussen]

4. Probably because he damaged property.

Property is the most sacred thing in the USA.

-- Mal

[TheBlackAdder]

5. OK teachers, the line forms here if you want to open yourself up to a possible 2-year prison stint.

[3Hotdogs]

6. I don't care. The sentence is wrong. Didn't the judge read about somethin', somethin, bad man with a

gun, somethin' good guy with two guns in classrooms?


I hope next time if that judge finds himself in trouble, he tries calling the A.C.L.U.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Perplexing person. "Randal Davidson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know"

Article:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/jesse-randall-randal-davidson-dalton-high-school-teacher-gun/