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Brickbat: Better Safe Than Sorry

Charles Oliver | 2.5.2013 6:00 AM


Officials locked down a Bronx, New York, school for an hour and had police search it after a campus aide reported hearing a 12-year-old student say something to another about a gun. After questioning the boy, they found he was talking about a Nerf gun, which was at his home.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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