Maybe it's not the guns, but the people.
The mother of the Grand Rapids Public Schools student who brought a gun to Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School on May 3 has faced a judge for the first time.
On Thursday, Aubrey Wilson appeared via Zoom for her arraignment in the 61st District Court in Grand Rapids in front of Judge Susan Jonas.
Wilson turned herself in to Grand Rapids police after she became aware of the charge. She told the judge she is homeless, not employed and has no income.
Police say Wilson had been living with her fiancée, Chelsea Berkley when her son discovered a 9mm pink handgun in the drawer next to his mother's bed.
Wilson told police that Berkley was the owner of the gun.
Wilson also told police that she moved the gun from her closet to the drawer by her bed and then forgot about it sometime after learning about it being in the home.
Wilson told the judge she is now homeless and has no income because her lesbian fiancée Berkley was jailed for retail fraud last November and heaven forbid she'd actually work to provide for her 4 kids.
Because of this incident, which was the 4th time a gun was found on a student at school this academic year (in this case the 9mm was unloaded), Grand Rapids public schools have banned all 14,500 of their students from bringing backpacks. State AG Dana Nessel visited the city of 200,000 last week to use the incident to promote the recent gun-control laws passed by state Dems and Her Royal Highness Gretchen Whitmer, the Mitten Witch.
For the last week, parents and students have had to haul papers, pens, coats, books, shoes, lunchboxes, and water bottles around with their bare hands. The district superintendent and board members have indicated that this policy might extend into next year, which should make traveling to school with snow gear fun! Their other genius idea is to buy clear backpacks for everyone, which will totally solve the issue.
We've now entered the state of civilizational decline where having objects to place other objects in is too dangerous!
(Never mind that a student who wanted to actually harm people could easily conceal the gun in other ways)
On May 3, the student told police that he was worried that his mom was "going to get into trouble" over the gun and decided to bring it to school inside his backpack. No one was hurt and the gun was not loaded.
He also told police that his mother told him "he could not tell anyone about the gun" prior to bringing it to school.
We need to start having serious conversations about these issues as a society.
The problem is not guns and education.
The problem is fatherlessness and lack of discipline.
We have plenty of policy and plenty of knowledge, but what we lack are morals and wisdom.
But we don't want to talk about that, because heaven forbid it would reveal that black communities in America are the ones with the highest levels of crime and family dysfunction, or it might shine a light on the fact that abnormal sexual lifestyles and relationships under the rainbow flag don't lead to good life outcomes.
