School safety was certainly put at risk by a child sketching a drawing of a cloud that he thought was shaped like a gun. There’s no doubt about that.
But what about the safety of the community, and in fact the safety of the region?
What if that cloud really WAS shaped like a gun?
Shouldn’t the Air Force have been standing by to immediately launch fighter planes to intercept and re-arrange that cloud?
How could this larger issue have been missed in this story? How could the school administrators themselves missed making that call?
And what about the nation as a whole? Shouldn’t we go on standby alert and organize neighborhood skywatch programs to alert the authorities BEFORE a cloud formation takes on one of the many possible unsafe shapes?
What if a cloud becomes shaped like an assault rifle? Has anyone in authority even CONSIDERED that extremely threatening possibility?
Shouldn’t the Air Force have been standing by to immediately launch fighter planes to intercept and re-arrange that cloud?
And this story does take place in Colorado Springs, of all places.