Posted on 11/16/2004 11:07:11 AM PST by crushelits
Student Sues to Pose With Gun in Yearbook
CONCORD, N.H. Where other students might pose for their senior yearbook photo with
tennis rackets or favorite cars, Blake Douglass (search) wants to be seen with his shotgun.
The 17-year-old senior filed a federal lawsuit to force Londonderry High School (search) to allow the photo and give up the policy school officials used to reject it.
"What theyre doing is basically discriminating based on content or message," said Penny Dean (search), Douglass lawyer and a specialist in gun cases. "You cant do that. You might want to but you cant and especially you cant with a broad policy like this."
"We want the picture in the yearbook," said Dean said after filing the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court.
The lawsuit seeks a temporary injunction so the picture can appear in the yearbook and a permanent injunction against the "pick-and-choose policy" of what photographs are published, Dean said.
The lawsuit names the Londonderry school board members, high school principal, school superintendent, town manager and school officials involved in the production of the yearbook.
An avid hunter and trap and skeet shooter, Douglass said he decided long ago on his senior photo an outdoor shot in a sportsmans pose, wearing a shooting vest and holding his broke-open shotgun over his shoulder.
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What is that? A 20 gauge? What's he trying out for Prom Queen or somethin'. :)
Actually, that is a very cool senior picture. And a very nice nice bit of walnut and steel.
Good shot
Absurd.
You yourself stated our rights are not limited to those enumerated.
In your scenerio, all things are rights. In which case I have the right to do anything I choose because rights are not limited to those enumerated. You really need to do better than that.
Does he have the right to appear nude in the yearbook?
So true. But the schools cannot run amuck in their anti-gun policies. "They" have been following such an approach for years, and they need to be called on it. The schools work to marginalize and demonize guns, and this cannot go on.
I agree.
The schools work to marginalize and demonize guns, and this cannot go on.
It will go on, as long as people continue to tolerate government schools. In a private school, this wouldn't be an issue in all likelihood.
However, if schools can change policies (eg Halloween and the complaints of a few Wiccans), then "we" can help them change this one. Make it cost enough in terms of bad PR and $$, and they will crumble.
Ummmm.... walmart has rack upon rack and case upon case of firearms in their stores.
Suing to prevent school administrators from making decisions about these mundane matters is counter productive. It is a can of worms and you may not like the new "rights" you create.
How many of you would like to see two boys deep kissing each other in the yearbook? That's where it's going you know. If this kind of nonsense is allowed you will rue the day.
I'm not talking about rights. I am talking about control of the schools being maintained by the community.
You need to be more carefull in your choice of terms. He clearly has a firearm in the picture, not a weapon.
If you have to ever make a point to a leftist, you have to be consistant in the difference between a firearm and a weapon.
In many states as is the case in Texas, declaring anything a weapon makes it a prohibited item subject to jail time. The boy has the shotgun as a tool or instrument of his sport.
"Nonsense, he has no such right. No right to have your picture posted exists."
But if he were gay and wanted his grad picture to be of him with his buttless leather pants on some Federal judge would declare it a right.
What the heck are you talking about? Customers taking photos in the store with guns? Why would anyone want their picture taken in Wal Mart? Are they talking about employees and or managers in pictures that might get published? What?
Our local High School has an indoor shooting range.
Or what if the kid shows up next a dragster?
Or what if the kid shows up posing next to a camera next to him, an so on?
The federal judge, if he did such a thing, (and none has so far) would be wrong as well.
But if he does what some here want, a right to have any picture you want posted, then it's on the table. Be careful of what you wish for, you might get it.
Clearly
I am talking about control of the schools being maintained by the community.
No, you are talking about control of the schools being maintained by the judiciary.
Rights by law suit, that's what the liberals want. You play right into their hands, silly girl.
Real rights cannont be ceded. You (or any group) certainly cannot cede my rights.
any thing that does not infringe on the rights of another is a right.
Bingo.
None of this makes your point that somehow a student has a right to have a photograph displayed anywhere, or even that a yearbook need exist. The yearbook is provided, but is not a right, and the photos are placed there at the pleasure of the group who publishes the book, it is not a right to have a picture displayed there.
Under your scenerio, he could have a pornographic picture of himself there. It would be his right. That is nonsense.
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