Posted on 03/19/2013 8:57:53 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
There is a scene in the movie A Bronx tale where the father of a young man counsels his son not to attack another young man over a $20.00 debt which has gone unpaid for too long. The father explains this is a small price to discover that someone is not trustworthy. He tells his son to be glad he has been shown how untrustworthy the other man is in this minor matter. Now you know not to trust him in the future in bigger things, he says.
This small lesson begs the question: Why would we trust school administrators who cannot tell the difference between an imaginary weapon fashioned out of a cupcake and something that is genuinely dangerous?
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I had a friend who attended Bishop DuBois HS in Manhattan (NY)in the 1950’s. He was on the rifle team and they used to carry their target rifles on the subway at sling arms going to meets in the Knightsbridge Armory. I am not sure that that was legal, even then. Once a cop asked them what they were doing. Today, if a bunch of Catholic HS students with target rifles got on the Number 1 IRT, they would close the subway system and place Manhattan on lock down, Napalitano’s goons would sweep in and shoot the whole place up.
That's exactly it.
It gives the idiots an 'out'. They don't have to use common sense/ logic, the answer is made for them.
Firing isn’t enough, they should be locked up in straitjackets.
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