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School suspends boy for sketching gun
AP via Yahoo! ^ | 8/22/07 | not provided (AP)

Posted on 08/22/2007 12:48:50 PM PDT by redstates4ever

Chandler school officials have suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching a picture that resembled a gun, saying it posed a threat to classmates.

But parents of the Payne Junior High School student said the drawing was a harmless doodle of a fake laser, and school officials overreacted.

"I just can't believe that there wasn't another way to resolve this," said Paula Mosteller, the boy's mother. "He's so upset. The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good."

The Mostellers said the drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries, or target any human. They said it was just a drawing that resembled a gun.

But Payne Junior High administrators thought the sketch was enough of a threat and gave the boy a five-day suspension, later reduced to three days.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: art; banglist; discipline; zerotolerance
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To: redstates4ever

I thought the headline read: School suspends boy for ketchup gun. So I logged on hoping to find some blueprints. Alas. BTW - the suspension is ridiculous - just simple, ‘You must obey,’ dogma from the public schools.


141 posted on 08/23/2007 4:40:08 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: bcsco

Beautiful.

The 1860 is one of my favorite firearms. It’s that graceful curve under the barrel that does it instead of the blocked off angle cut of the 1860. For shooters, I prefer the Remingtons but they don’t feel right. The grips are too short.

Some years ago, a company sold non-firing replicas of famous guns. They even put in the scratches and left out the missing screws of the original. I don’t know if they ever made one of Earp’s gun.

I wish I could display my toys but in my neighborhood, gun safes are a better choice. One of these days, I’ll add my favorites to my porfile page.

Most of my questions are answered by two books. The Flayderman’s Guide to Antique Firearms and Cartridges of the World.


142 posted on 08/23/2007 5:19:07 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: bcsco

Oops. Blocked off cut of the 1851. Sorry.


143 posted on 08/23/2007 5:21:25 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: TexasCajun

That’s a gun?
It looks like a building, with a sidewalk and a small garden.


144 posted on 08/23/2007 5:24:34 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: redstates4ever; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
145 posted on 08/23/2007 6:34:58 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: Jaysun

Back at you. You have a cute kid!


146 posted on 08/23/2007 7:39:30 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: lakeman

You and me, both. At 45, we shouldn’t feel out of touch.

I think the world is losing touch with reality.


147 posted on 08/23/2007 7:43:57 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: redstates4ever

what I find weird is that they let that college student write threatening stories at Virginia University, yet a picture of a gun is a bigger threat.


148 posted on 08/23/2007 7:45:58 AM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END WELFARE.)
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To: rightinthemiddle
Back at you. You have a cute kid!

Thanks! She just turned one a couple of days ago.
149 posted on 08/23/2007 7:48:08 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: TexasCajun
He deserved to be suspended. That is the worst drawing of a gun I have ever seen. He should be sent immediately to remedial drawing class. My 5 year can do a better job than that.

/kidding

150 posted on 08/23/2007 7:48:26 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here...)
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To: 04-Bravo
When I was in the 4th and 5th grade, all of my school notebooks included drawings of Tiger tanks and F-100 Super Saber jets.

Heck, I drew full battlefields --I was especially fond of doing D-day. Tanks, battleships, soldiers, bombers... the whole 9 yards. I'd turn in tests papers with pictures of jets bombing stuff drawn in the margins.

151 posted on 08/23/2007 7:51:20 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here...)
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To: hattend

Good eye!


152 posted on 08/23/2007 7:52:13 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here...)
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To: Shooter 2.5
I don’t know if they ever made one of Earp’s gun.

Earp was known to have a collection of .45 Peacemakers he'd hand out to people who would seek him out. He'd say it was 'the gun' he used at the OK Corral. They'd leave thinking he'd given them something special and of value. Uh, huh.

The understanding now is that there was, indeed, a Buntline Special that he and others were given by Ned Buntline. It wasn't the real long one that Stuart Lake (Earp's biographer) claimed it was (I want to say 12" barrel), but one with a shorter, 10" barrel. A number of historians now believe that was the gun he carried that day in his overcoat. In fact, Colt records apparently support this.

I only have the two originals and two replicas (the Hawkin and the Earp revolver). I have those because I'm a history buff when it comes to the Civil War and American West. I had a website up at one time giving the story of the Little Big Horn fight, but haven't had it up since going to Comcast. They don't help with pre-established sites.

As I mentioned in another post, all my other guns were given to a young friend of the family (except for a .357 I keep). When he and his family would visit, he'd always ask to see my historical arms. Knowing him, and the family (the dad's a police officer, SWAT member, and avid hunter) he was the natural choice when I decided that, not being able to hunt any longer, I had no need for my collection.

153 posted on 08/23/2007 8:24:45 AM PDT by bcsco ("The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.")
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To: lesser_satan
Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch was "absolutely considered a threat," and that threatening words or pictures are punishable.

Oh my!

Imagine if the school district got a hold of some of the students Ipods.

Heads would be-a-rollin I tell ya!

154 posted on 08/23/2007 8:36:33 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Our national sovereignty and cohesion as a country is not for sale at any price.)
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To: redstates4ever

The usual Zero Tolerance intolerence. Zero Tolerance negates the necessity for thinking. Easiest policy in the world.


155 posted on 08/23/2007 8:47:40 AM PDT by dooltotheend (uir)
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To: dashing doofus
When I was a kid, we had toy guns, and used to play war in the woods and fields. I can't imagine what the penalty for that would be today.

We used pellet and BB guns when we played war. Wish paintballs had been around back in the day. Would have been less painful. 

156 posted on 08/23/2007 9:04:27 AM PDT by zeugma (If I eat right, don't smoke and exercise, I might live long enough to see the last Baby Boomer die.)
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To: RC2
Take that money away from them and teachers will loose their jobs. Keep doing this until they get the picture that the public won’t put up with their liberal ideas.
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The solution is to permanently shut down the government school gestapo forever!

The Marxists and their useful idiots running the government schools are incapable of “getting the idea”. Their goal is to destroy our nation. Yes, it is that serious!

157 posted on 08/23/2007 9:28:59 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: dennisw
The schoolmarm boy hating feminazis are the real terrorists....

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They remind me of Nurse Ratchet in the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.

Remember it is part of the Marxist plan. The Marxists and their useful idiots NEED emasculated men if they are to succeed.

In my opinion, our government schools are the most important tool that the Marxists and their useful idiots have. Our government schools are more of a threat to a nation than ANY other problem or threat that our nation faces. We can survive a suit-case nuclear bomb, but we can not survive a new generation of Marxists voting in elections.

158 posted on 08/23/2007 9:35:17 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: magslinger
has got to be a mental illness.

It is. It's called hoplophobia.

159 posted on 08/23/2007 3:35:01 PM PDT by HiJinx (Learn to take as a measure of success the criticism of your enemies. RL.)
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To: redstates4ever

This is truly insane.


160 posted on 08/23/2007 3:37:53 PM PDT by Dante3
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