… for public schools to use in issuing statements to parents when – as so often happens – students are found on campus with loaded guns. Either you call the weapon an “inappropriate item,” or you gesture vaguely in the direction of “police activity.”
Fort Worth ISD sent … a letter … to parents, reading in part, “our campus was briefly placed on lockdown due to police activity near the school.” The letter did not mention why there was police activity or explain that there were guns recovered.
Three guns, from three tykes.
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UD proposes further euphemisms:
Extremely short words that have other meanings: GAT. ROD.
Extremely obscure words no one will recognize: HARQUEBUS. CULVERIN.