URI: Reports of active shooter on Kingston campus

[NRitland2]

R.I. State Police Col. Steven O'Donnell told WPRI.com investigators believe there was never a gun or an active shooter at URI, but he said they did recover a Nerf gun during a room-by-room search of Chafee Hall. It wasn't clear whether the Nerf gun was related.

 

[billmelater]

Yep. The parents should be fuming. It was a clusterf&*k. If there had been a shooter, it could have gotten ugly. Worst lock-down ever.

There's a School Lockdown Competition, now?View attachment 61874

 

[lancecolonel]

A couple years ago this happened at Tufts University. Someone called the campus PD and said they saw a guy walking down the street with a revolver. So security alert emails went out told everyone to stay inside. Eventually the guy called the PD and said that he fit the description and was walking down the street twirling a socket wrench at the time the call came in. No gun, just a paranoid hippy that can't tell the difference between a socket wrench and a revolver.

Of course this launched a campaign around the campus saying that the only reason the caller thought it was a gun was that the person with the wrench was black. The flyers were hilarious.

do you mean to tell me that university students don't know the ****ing difference between a socket wrench and an adjustable wrench?

 

[Fixxah]

Every range has at least one active shooter.