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Guns

Does This Look Like 'Gub' or 'Gun'?

Charles Oliver | 10.21.2015 6:00 AM

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Officials say it wasn't a lockdown, but they did hold students in their classrooms at Lehman High School in Texas while they investigated an alleged gun threat. They determined that one student had just misheard another ask someone for some gum.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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