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8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt
WOWK, CBS 13, Huntington WV ^ | Apr 18, 2013 11:18 PM | Charlo Greene

Posted on 04/19/2013 12:00:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai

When 8th grade student Jared Marcum got dressed for school this morning, he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights. …

It was the image of a gun printed on Jared’s t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record.

Jared’s father Allen Lardieri says he’s angry he had to rush from work to pick his son up from jail over something he says was blown way out of proportion. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2ndamendment; banglist; childabuse; guncontrol; nratshirt; publicschool; publicschools; secondamendment
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Don’t just threaten to sue, do it. People have to sue the bejeezus out of these clowns every time and everywhere this happens until they know they can’t run rough shod over peoples rights. Will they next suspend and arrest a student if they were wearing a Che Shirt with a circle with a bar thru it over the picture? Can’t desecrate their heroes.


21 posted on 04/19/2013 12:23:05 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

Disarming the American public continues apace in elementary and high schools in the form of scary cookies, drawings and alarming tee-shirts.

Elsewhere, walking around with a firearm, even where legal, has risen to the level of disturbing the peace and police apprehension if only one wussified member of the community (or political activist) is “frightened”.


22 posted on 04/19/2013 12:23:19 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Will America ever realize having a Marxist in the White House is not a good idea?)
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To: Olog-hai

Arrested?? Sue them into the stone age.


23 posted on 04/19/2013 12:27:43 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Olog-hai
The child was “arrested?” This is clearly a free speech issue and someone should file charges both against the school and the police.
24 posted on 04/19/2013 12:28:00 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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25 posted on 04/19/2013 12:29:34 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Olog-hai

ARRESTED? WTF???

Can’t wait til they try that with my kiddies, who wear, with pride, regularly, The Fighting SeaBees logo (honoring the memory of their grandfather)

Not a peep yet here in Western PA....


26 posted on 04/19/2013 12:29:40 PM PDT by LadyBuck ("When Dick Cheney shot a fellow American it was an accident, ObamaÂ’s is by policy" - thomasowellfan)
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To: Pollster1

Neat shirts. Where get one?


27 posted on 04/19/2013 12:36:16 PM PDT by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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To: Pollster1

Exactly, I’d buy my kid a whole new wardrobe, all with 2A and/or NRA messages. Wear one every day.

And I would picket the bitch’s house so all her neighbors knew she was an intolerant skag that abused children.


28 posted on 04/19/2013 12:47:21 PM PDT by Valpal1
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To: driftdiver

“Disturbing the education process”? Like a Teacher’s Strike?


29 posted on 04/19/2013 12:53:02 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Olog-hai

What else should one expect when you let others pay for your children’s education.

If the parents were writing the tuition check each month, it would be a different story.


30 posted on 04/19/2013 12:53:03 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Olog-hai
My son and his friend were both recently sent to the principal's office because they were overheard talking about an upcoming birthday camping trip. My son said he wanted to bring his pocket knife and the other kid said he wanted to bring his shotgun ON THE CAMPING TRIP.

Fortunately, they didn't get suspended or anything.

I just told him that the people who make the rules at his school are idiots. I explained that just because a rule is a rule doesn't make it right. What is right is what his mom, dad and church tell him. It was actually a good teaching lesson and hopefully from now on he will take what his school says with a grain of salt.

I wish it was feasible to send him to a private school or home school but it just isn't. I pay a bunch in taxes so that we can live in a real good school district in a conservative area so I didn't think I had to worry about things like this but I guess I do.

31 posted on 04/19/2013 1:04:16 PM PDT by nitzy (You can avoid reality but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.)
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To: Olog-hai
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32 posted on 04/19/2013 1:04:42 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I hope they have the chops and allies to sue. Kids walking around with chains looped between a nostril and their ear lobe, pants down around their plumber's crack, and (in West Virginia) this happens.

Push Back.

33 posted on 04/19/2013 1:04:56 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s my comment as well.

The people making the decisions need to be held responsible for those decisions.

Whoever pushed this to the point of his arrest and expulsion needs to face personal, individual civil penaltie$.


34 posted on 04/19/2013 1:07:27 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: massgopguy
“Disturbing the education process”?

Like a Teacher’s Strike?

Or like getting fake doctor's excuses to go march for obammy.

35 posted on 04/19/2013 1:10:00 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: umgud

When I was this kids age I had a neighbor who drove for a local brewery. He used to give us kids different sorts of swag, including t-shirts emblazoned with the company (beer) logo.

I made the mistake of wearing such a t-shirt to school and was given the choice of changing into something from the lost~&~found pile or going home. I guess it was the enthusiasm with which I shouted “Go home!” that rankled them such that they called my mom and insisted she come fetch me.

I learned early on what joyless people the indoctrinators were ;-)


36 posted on 04/19/2013 1:11:07 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Olog-hai

This country’s mentality is fast circling the drain. “Land of the Free” ... “Home of the Brave”.. really?


37 posted on 04/19/2013 1:16:52 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: VietVet
Neat shirts. Where get one?

Lots of places to get them - any search should find a site you like (I prefer not to endorse specific businesses on FR, even when I approve of the business).

38 posted on 04/19/2013 1:17:57 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Robert357

There is a law against disturbing the educational process?

B.S. meter now in the red.

Cops just making up laws now?

Truly the barbarians are inside the walls.


39 posted on 04/19/2013 1:19:11 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

I suspect...we ain’t seen nothing yet!


40 posted on 04/19/2013 1:20:09 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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