Zero-Tolerance Shopping

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

[NewHampshireDuo]

What a bunch of weenies we've become. Remember when the rifle club members brought their guns to school?

[Conservateacher]

I made a hunting knife in my high school metal shop! Can't recall if I used it on anyone.

[JOHANNES801]

At 11 years old I owned several guns allready.

[BBell]

This Rich Eilinger guy, what a putz.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Somebody could have been killed!

[larryjohnson]

My two Maine grandsons,9 and 11 are homeschooled on their farm. They and their dad each carry a sheathed knife, mebe 6 in blade on their belts. Have for years. Grandgirl, 6 sees no need yet.

[BBell]

I made bongs in my Junior High plastics shop. Boy was I a different person back then.

[larryjohnson]

The boys also drive the tractor.

[breakem]

The horror!

[JayNorth]

I hope none of the items sold were wrapped in plastic bags. Someone could suffocate! And don't wrap them in festive Christmas wrap (oops...that's "festive winter season wrap")...you might get a paper cut. There's danger lurking all around us.

[BigBobber]

Any boy who doesn't have a pocket knife and BB gun by the time they're twelve is at serious risk of becoming a Democrat.

[azcap]

Ward said the pocket pliers were intended as gifts for fathers or other family members who enjoy hunting, fishing or camping - can be viewed in a new light in this post-Columbine era

 

Columbine - Refresh my memory. Was that the school massacre where two teenagers killed 15 people with pliers?

"Zero Tolerance" has nothing to do with toleration. What it is is Zero Judgment. Because liberals and moral relativist are unwilling to determine right and wrong they will ban everything in the attempt to eliminate all wrong without having to make the judgment.

 

[claudiustg]

This is intolerable. We need vouchers. When private schools begin to syphon off the children maybe these public schools will learn the meaning of common sense. How about being expelled for a year for Advil?

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[Liberal Classic]

ZERO TOLERANCE MEANS NO:

OR

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

[Exit148]

PC idiocy!

[Ciexyz]

My co-worker's 14 yr old son accidentally left a pocket knife in his jeans (left over from a weekend camping trip) and he wore those same jeans to school. He felt the bulge in his pocket and said, Whoops! That's my pocket knife! And several girls ran to the teacher and said, that boy has a knife in class!

The teacher called security, they called police, the parents had to pick up the kid at the police station, and the kid was charged, sentenced to probation, and had to perform 200 hours of car washing of police cars.

[weaponeer]

But Rich Eilinger, one of the parents who called to complain about the multi-tools, was shocked that they were on sale. "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.

Bunch of weenies is correct. My parents gave me a Cub Scout multi-bladed pocket knife on my 8th birthday. I have carried a knife in my pocket virtually every day of the 47 years since, including all through school. Nobody cared.

I also on many days brought my .22 rifle to school on the bus and kept it in my locker all day until getting on my friend's bus and going to his farm to shoot woodchucks after school. Nobody cared. Nobody ever got shot or cut.

We've become a nation of sheep. Baaaaaaa.

[sharkhawk]

I'll never forget that my Dad always carried a pocketknife, and how it was a big deal when I was about 8 or 9 and my Dad gave me my own, and showed me how to use it. In fact, I know he carried with him on planes untill about 10 or so years ago. It's amazing how the libs are trying to make each and every boy a little girl.

[NewHampshireDuo]

My parents gave me a Cub Scout multi-bladed pocket knife on my 8th birthday. I have carried a knife in my pocket virtually every day of the 47 years since, including all through school. Nobody cared.

My grandfather gave me a pocket knife when I was a relatively little kid and told me to always carry it. While that knife is long gone, I've always carried a knife (and where I'm allowed, a gun).

[longtermmemmory]

How long before zero tollerance extends to municipal limits? How about a buffer zone?

Soon only blunted sporks will be allowed.

What a nerf world idiot.