Zero-Tolerance Shopping

Portland (ME) Press Herald ^ | 19 December, 2003 | Tess Nacelewicz

[HungarianGypsy]

For our family birthday exchange one of my sister-in-laws gave my nine year old son a swiss pocket knife. My only fear was that he would try to poke it into the wall, like he did with another knife. But he's been good about it this time.

[azcap]

I have a Dad who is perpetually attached to his pocket knife as well. I remember when I was a kid riding on airplanes with him. He would sit there and clean under his fingernails with his pocket knife.

[Allegra]

GASP! You're going to poke somebody's eye out with that!!

I'm so glad I went to school in simpler times. We were even allowed to sing the Christian Christmas carols in our public school pageants and nobody was ever offended. Imagine that!

[szweig]

When will this "zero-tolerance" nonsense come to an end? It leads to feminization of the society and makes us susceptible to the Left's "come hither" ideas of free lunch.

[HighWheeler]

I once brought a .38 plastic replica revolver to high school as a prop for a "persuasive speech" I had to give. I dragged the gun out of my shirt pocket and not a singel person flinched, screamed, dove for the floor, or ran away.

I got an A+ on the speech, and used the prop to persuade people to wear seat belts.

BTW, not a single person died in a Columbine-style massacre that day. However, even the teacher decided it was a good idea to wear seat belts.

[zook]

"It's a different world today," said Roger Richards, an administrator at the Maine Department of Education

Same world, more a**hole school administrators.

[Eaker]

I got my first knife when I was four. It was a cheesy Stuckeys souvenier, but it was a knife and it was mine.

41 years later I still have it, plus about 100 others and I carry one everyday. I have a "travel" knife with a ceramic blade and kevlar body. Never been stopped by a metal detector so far.

I too, carry a gun everywhere that is "legal". I guess the use of the term "legal" proves just how bad it has gotten. I am ashamed of myself having to use that term.

[Husker24]

Have they banned boogers yet, someone could lose an eye.

[Oatka]

The paper has a poll on the middle right hand section of the page:

"Knives as Gifts
The Parent Teacher Club at Hollis Elementary School sponsors a sale of inexpensive gifts so children can do holiday shopping at the school. One of the gifts is a pocket plier - a small multi-tool item that contained a knife blade. Parents of some students who bought the tool at a school with a strict anti-weapons policy complained and the tool was removed from the sale.Should such multi-tools be banned from school-sponsored sales?"

The weenies are closing in:
Yes 47.2%
No 52.8%
Total Votes: 214

[Lurker]

I earned my 'Totin' Chip" in the Boy Scouts and 9 or so I think.

I've been carrying one 'where legal' ever since. And I feel exactly the same way you do about the 'where legal' part.

L

P.S. Love the tagline. Lazarus had some pretty good rules for a long and happy life.

[TexasCowboy]

"41 years later I still have it, plus about 100 others and I carry one everyday."

I'm gonna tell on you!!
LOL!

Those Bokers are good knives, but pretty darn expensive!
I've had mine several years, and it's about time to send it in to have it laser sharpened.

[e_engineer]

[Old Professer]

My uncle and I have this long-running joke; we sit on a park bench and lament the fate of the world and then, in unison, we chortle: "Thank God, I won't live that long," neither of us thought we would.

[Fred Hayek]

< sarcasm on > Well then pens and pencils are potential violations of Zero Tolerance as well. Students should use nothing but crayons. Wait there may be a reason to prohibit crayons!

[spunkets]

"Remember when the rifle club members brought their guns to school?"

It wasn't too long ago. My school never had one, but my friends did. I was able to take a city bus with any gun and ammo.

post-Columbine = progressive BS propaganda acconpanied by surrender to the comfort of darkness.

[ladylib]

Bet he hates public schools now. Bet he'll never send his kid to one.

[primeval patriot]

"Two days ago, my son came home - he's 11 years old and in the fifth-grade - and asked my wife if he could buy a knife in school. That raised a few eyebrows," Eilinger said Thursday.

What an embarassment for the kid. Imagine your parents blabbing to the media that you're such a helpless wuss you can't be trusted with a pocketknife.

[ladylib]

Hint to kid: Never ask your parents anything if you're pretty sure what the answer is going to be.

[harpseal]

My first knife was a schrade Ol' Timer. I still have it packed away. My Leatherman tool is always with me. As to a no weapons policy, it must be a real handicap conducting school without pens or pencils they can be sharp.

Now I also carry a gun wherever I go. It is concealed and it is discrete. No one ver knows it is with me. Sometimes I admit I have gone into places where statutes object to my being armed. If I have to I will deal with the issues in court.

[harpseal]

My first knife was a schrade Ol' Timer. I still have it packed away. My Leatherman tool is always with me. As to a no weapons policy, it must be a real handicap conducting school without pens or pencils they can be sharp.

Now I also carry a gun wherever I go. It is concealed and it is discrete. No one ver knows it is with me. Sometimes I admit I have gone into places where statutes object to my being armed. If I have to I will deal with the issues in court.