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{{trope}}
[[File:rena axe.jpg|link=Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|frame|Rena is a firm believer in [[Just for Pun|corporeal]] punishment.]]
[[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do with Cartesian Geometry]].▼
A student brings a weapon to school. They may not necessarily use it against anybody, but even then you can expect somebody's parents to panic about what could have happened. This plot will rarely last longer than a single [[Very Special Episode]], and can focus on the incident, the following consequences, or a mix of each.
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The person who brings the weapon is rarely a member of the core cast, since that would force the writers to come up with some way for them to [[Status Quo Is God|get off scot-free]]. Unnamed background characters who attempt this are fair game for being caught and sent off to juvie, though. If they ''are'' a main character, expect for them to be gone from the show [[Put on a Bus|for a long time]].
Unfortunately, this can also be [[Truth in Television]], as
▲Compare with [[Guns in Church]]. [[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do with Cartesian Geometry]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'':
** In the last episode of the first season, {{spoiler|Ryuugu Rena brings a large billhook to school and rigs up an improvised explosive device for the purpose of holding the entire student body hostage. She did this to force the cooperation of the police, because they weren't taking her seriously when she tried telling them about an alien conspiracy to massacre the entire town.}}
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* Hiruma from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' regularly brings guns to school, and gets away with it because [[Blackmail|he has dirt on the principal]] (and [[Up to Eleven|probably half of Japan]], by the look of things).
* ''[[Angel Beats!]]'', almost everyone with a name carries a weapon in school at some point (a school in the afterlife, but still).
* At the beginning of ''[[
* The story of ''[[Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo]]'' centers around the main character bringing her chainsaw to school... and using it on ''everybody''.
== Comic Books ==
* A gun being brought into
* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', [[New Transfer Student]] Gwen Stacy sees Peter getting bullied and threatens the tormentors with a knife. She gets in deep trouble with the school for this, though she's soon allowed back in class after making an apology. (It helps that her dad's a police captain.) When her dad starts chewing her out for it, she shoots back that he never even bothered to ask her if she had justification.
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has a scene where Channon explains to Yelena that the first time she used a particular model of gun was to stop a classmate from raping a friend. While they were on the school bus. When Yelena meekly says that they checked for guns at her private school, Channon says, "So did mine. To make sure we had them."
* In ''[[Power Pack]]'' issue 29 a bully Alex picked up and threw into the snow using his gravity powers many arcs ago brings a gun to school to try to force him to use them more overtly. The gun is a revolver that somehow fires twice in the story despite several panels showing it from the front where it visibly has at most one bullet loaded.
== Film ==
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' when Buffy gained the ability to read thoughts and discovered that someone was planning to kill everyone in the school. Cue Jonathan who is up on the abandoned clocktower putting together a high powered rifle {{spoiler|to shoot himself with. Buffy stops him and he goes into therapy (whether he gets better is a matter of opinion, although he stops being suicidal). It turns out the would be mass murderer is the Evil Lunch Lady who is planning to poison the jello.}}
** Inverted in the first 3 seasons, school (the library, to be exact) was where most of Giles' weapons were kept.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' when Laura brings a gun to school for protection after she is threatened by Toni for testifying against her in a trial. {{spoiler|Laura does not use her gun. However, Toni shoots her best friend Josie. Urkel, Laura, and the gang start a gun exchange program and Urkel does a rap about how bad guns are. At the end of the episode, the cast (out of character) comes together and does a [[Public Service Announcement]] about ending gun violence. }}
* This makes up the "Guns" half of the "Guns & Gossip" episode of ''[[My So-Called Life]]''. Rickie's cousin brings a gun to school and it accidentally goes off. Brian gets a lot of unwanted attention (good and bad) because he's thought to be an eyewitness.
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* Kelly Rowland's ''Stole'' is about the lead up to and aftermath of such a shooting:
{{quote|He's not invisible anymore
With [[Handguns|his father's 9]] and a broken fuse
Since he walked through that classroom door
He's all over primetime news }}
* Generally thought to be the subject of Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks."
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