Student in Jail for Gun in School

A 16 year old student at North Central High School was seen with a gun in his bookbag by another student. The student had a Raven .25 caliber in the front of his bag. The gun had five bullets in it, and he had a bullet in his front pocket. The boy said he found the gun in the handicapped stall of the boy’s bathroom wrapped in notebook paper. He said that he was going to take the gun to his home after school that day. The boy was charged with carrying a handgun without a permit, and possession of a handgun on school property. He was then taken to the Juvenile Detention Center.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110427/LOCAL1802/110427021/North-Central-student-jailed-after-gun-found-school?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|News|s

Guns on school grounds have become a big problem lately. This needs to be stopped. Horrible things have happened with kids bringing guns to school. We need to prevent any kind of activity that could turn into students, teachers, or faculty getting hurt on school grounds. I think we need to improve students awareness of bringing weapons to school. We should also improve security of all enterances of schools.

Dogs Saved

Hundreds of dogs were saved last Friday afternoon on their way to Chinese restaurants. A driver swerved his car in front of the truck the dogs were being transported in. Stopping the truck, the driver alerted activists on his microblog to come and help free the dogs. Two hundred people showed up jammin traffic on the highway and making the truck immobile. The animal activist group ended up freeing the dogs by purchasing them for $17,600. Some of the dogs even had collars and name tags, meaning they had been possibly stolen from their owners.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/19/chinese-animal-activists-save-hundreds-of-dogs-from-being-eaten/?hpt=C2

Dogs shouldn't be eaten. In the US dogs are a man's best friend. If someone would eat a dog in the US, that person would be hated. I think that there should be a law conserning the Chinese to not eat dogs. It's just sick to think about. Personally I would've done the same exact thing if I was in China. I think we should have more animal activist groups in the US helping the Chinese with this problem. We could show the Chinese how wrong it is to eat man's best friend.

Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers

The Federal Aviation Administration suspended another air traffic controller because he was sleeping on the job. This has been their seventh person to be sleeping on the job. Most of the sleeping has occured in the midnight shifts. The head of the FAA Air Traffic Organization, Hank Krakowski, resigned because of all the insodents with the air traffic controllers falling asleep this past year. They said they are taking steps to make sure this will stop.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/16/air.traffic.controller.asleep/index.html?hpt=Sbin

I think that this is a very serious situation. What if a plane ended up crashing into another plane on the runway? That would be over 800 people dead..if not more. We really need to think about how serious this is. Sleeping on a job in an office is totally different than sleeping on the job as an air traffic controller. I think we really need to inforce the no sleeping on the job rule, exspecially being an air traffic controller..for the safty of our families, friends, and ourselves.