Posted on 09/24/2013 6:59:24 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Democrat Anti-Gun Nuts Gone Totally Insane: Kid Suspended for Playing with Toy Gun
Not at school, not at the bus stop, in his own front lawn...this happened in Virginia
My four year old grandson said he wanted a gun and a fishing pole. He said the gun was for shooting birds and pointed up at geese flying over. I was both warmed, he is a real boy, and afraid for him. Being a real boy is going to be dangerous.
I hope whoever made the idiotic decision to suspend the child ends up fired. Their judgement is highly suspect. I wouldn't trust anyone with that poor of judgement, sense of balance, and prone to knee-jerk reactions in any kind of authority position.
I don’t see how the school has any business getting involved here. It didn’t happen on school property (in school, on the bus, etc.) and I think the argument “well, two of the friends were waiting for the bus” is kinda thin.
I’m not saying the kid shouldn’t be punished by his parents for jerking around. But expelled from school? Unless there is more to this story, yeesh!
What is an “air-soft” gun? Is it as powerful as a BB gun? (By “powerful” I mean only that it can hurt someone.)
Cha Ching!
When I was a kid everyone played cops-and-robbers or cowboys-and-Indians or “war”, and we didn’t turn into a bunch of maniacal killers.
That kid’s a piker. When I was in high school my friends and I built guns. My best was a fully functional Civil War cannon made out of a 3/4” pipe that used match heads as a propellant (my homemade black powder formula never worked quite well enough) and shot marbles dangerously long distances. Some of my friends were into pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails. None of us ever got arrested for all of this and mod of us have survived into early old age.
It is getting to the point where these petty zealot kings need be shown directly exactly how a gun can be dangerous. Frankly if I were this kids parents, I’d be down at that school faster then lightening and someone would either agree they went too far or their replacement would.
The kid id black and that ought to complicate things for the liberals!
Democrat Anti-Gun Nuts Gone Totally Insane: Kid Suspended for Playing with Toy Gun
Zero tolerance.
No.
Air soft are those lightweight plastic pellets.
If you have a gun phobia they might hurt...your feelings.
An “air-soft” gun is a toy gun that can fire small plastic pellets that are larger than BB’s and smaller than paintballs. They might hurt you a little if you get hit by one close up but will not penetrate skin. It’s a step up from a nerf gun.
It's like a BB gun, but it shoots plastic pellets.
I don't think it can hurt someone, except in the eyes.
Oh, they can hurt pretty bad, if you’re not careful.
But, they are an awesome non-lethal training device.
The libs really missed the boat on airsoft. They should have gotten it banned before it got popular.
All the equipment used in airsoft is easily adaptable, and the training and experience applicable, to the real thing.
Someone made this decision.
That someone has a name.
And an address.
Publish it.
And then look the other way.
Make that someone worry.
Worry a lot.
Thanks.
Okay if he had brought it to school I would understand but he was playing on his own lawn? How dafuq is that any of the school’s concern?
Sieg Heil everybody.
The three children firing the guns were suspended.
http://www.wavy.com/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far
So not the school’s authority extends to outside school hours on private property? I would get a lawyer to explain that no matter how “concerned” they were, they had no legal authority to do anything.
The City codes referenced in this case are as follows:
City Code 38-3, primarily section (d) “ Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any firearm, spring-propelled rifle or pistol, from, on, across or within one hundred fifty (150) yards of any building, dwelling, street, sidewalk, alley, roadway or public land or public place within the city limits.”
If you can’t shoot a zombie, then who can you shoot?
The inmates are running the asylum.
Airsoft guns fire a 6mm plastic pellet. The more expensive ones are CO2 powered and can cause some pain and maybe damage if shot in the eye. The spring powered ones are much cheaper and don’t have much velocity.
I get annoyed when the Maryland school buses turn on their flashing lights, indicating all cars on both sides of road must stop moving(by law), while the bus itself is still moving.
It makes no sense to me.
A few years ago an Ice Cream truck came in my neighborhood with a hand sign that popped out saying stop as if it was a school bus, I just ignored it.
Too much demonization of zombies in movies.
Eating brains is their ‘orientation’ , part of their being.
Stop the slurs on zombies.
(pdf file, right at the top)
The problem is that a school bus stop is legally school territory in Virginia. The principal is notified, who must notify the superintendent, who then may contact the police.
It doesn’t matter if the student was on private property when he fired on students at the bus stop.
Yes, I agree that they are stretching it, but in this case, with several legal contrivances, like the airsoft gun being a “gun”, the letter of the law is on their side.
In a sane place, this would be handled as a school disciplinary manner, but the state of Virginia is weird about guns.
Ever kid in that school in his grade should whip one out in a show of solidarity.
What are they going to do, suspend them all?
“I am Spartacus!”
LOL. How asinine. I bet most people abide by it out of ignorance.
If only anyone had the balls to do that. I’d pay to see it.
One of the Moms yelled at me shaking her hand at me too
‘STOP’
that is an arsenal!
“...If only anyone had the balls to do that....”
That’s what it’s going to take to stop this bullsh*t.
Situations like that are why man is born with a middle finger. ;p
When are we going to stand up for our rights? It seems that the man who stood up against COMMON CORE is correct. WE ARE A BUNCH OF CATTLE. We have forgotten, that we are a free people, and we have rights, guaranteed to us by the constitution. Yet we stand there with our thumbs up our @$$, and do nothing. I guess these people are correct. All they have to do is make an example of one of us, and we scurry and hide under our beds. YOU DESERVE THE GOVERNMENT YOU GET.
“He said the gun was for shooting birds and pointed up at geese flying over. I was both warmed, he is a real boy, and afraid for him. Being a real boy is going to be dangerous.”
Dont worry. I’m sure the geese cant shoot back. ;-)
LOL, but the libs will reeducate him out of his masculine wishes!
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