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Home Front: Culture Wars
Texas teen with a rifle, 100 rounds of ammo and a mask is arrested while sitting in his car near a school sporting event
2018-03-03
[DailyMail]
  • Diego Horta, 17, was arrested on Tuesday night on drug and weapons charges

  • He was found near Rowlett High School and the city's community center as two school sporting evets were finishing

  • He allegedly also had more than four grams of a penalty group two drug police believe to be hallucinogens, an illegal club and a mask

  • An image of apparent child pornography was found on his phone, police say

  • The Texas teen is home-schooled and not a student at Rowlett High
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  the kid doesn't fit the pattern for home schooled I've come to expect.

There is a huge range in what home schooling means, from serious college prep to free range kids to the well-intentioned but ill-equipped experience final daughter went through at the hands of her mother: her mother handed her the age-appropriate textbooks and workbooks from series recommended by fellow members of their odd little church, and when fd struggled got her the same textbook/workbook combination from another recommended series on the subject. Final daughter is bright, but she spent three years trying vainly to master junior high math without any useful help from her mother, even though her mother had a college education and ranked as a sergeant in the Air Force when she retired.

I’m reasonably bright and well educated, but I lack the discipline to successfully home school. I was fine at enriching beyond what the school offered, but if formal schooling had not been available, I would have done my parental duty by arranging for tutors.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-03 18:46  

#9  "The Texas teen is home-schooled and not a student at Rowlett High"
Home schooled or not in school, there is a huge difference and the kid doesn't fit the pattern for home schooled I've come to expect.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-03-03 16:15  

#8  I'm sure he was only waiting to shoot some celebration shots in the air...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-03-03 12:23  

#7  Get the guns away from foreign born juvenile miscreants like Diego Horta before you go after law abiding citizens.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-03-03 12:11  

#6  On the Dallas TV news last night, they reported several charges against him, but noted having a rifle in your vehicle is not a crime. Not yet, anyway.
Posted by: Bobby   2018-03-03 09:45  

#5  Any bets on Diego Horta's immigration status?
Posted by: Raj   2018-03-03 08:43  

#4  Shoot, a fella could have himself a pretty good... uh... never mind.
Posted by: Maj. T.J. Kong   2018-03-03 07:48  

#3  But it was a gun near a school. His "favored victim group" status spoils the story. For some...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-03 07:13  

#2  Wording per the statute I think.

Drugs in Penalty Group 2

4 grams+ is for distribution not personal use.
Suggests he was an armed dealer, not a school shooter.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-03-03 04:38  

#1  From the article: "Police found more than four grams of a penalty group two drug they believed to be hallucinogens."

Kind of strange wording there.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-03-03 00:48  

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