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7th-grader suspended for playing with airsoft gun in own yard
http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | September 24, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 09/24/2013 7:26:10 AM PDT by Whenifhow

A seventh-grade student in Virginia Beach, Va., has been suspended from school for playing with an airsoft gun with a friend in his front yard while waiting for the school bus.

WAVY-TV reports that 13-year-old Khalid Caraballo will find out soon if he will be expelled for "possession, handling and use of a firearm" because the guns were fired at two others playing in Caraballo's yard.

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The school's so-called "zero-tolerance" policy on guns extends to private property, according to the report.

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"It's on your school record. The school said I had possession of a firearm. They aren't going to ask me any questions. They are going to think it was a real gun, and I was trying to hurt someone," he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; education; guncontrol; liberalsareinsane; school; secondamendment; toygun; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 09/24/2013 7:26:10 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

2:38 Minutes
Students Suspended From School - Boys Were Firing Toy Guns In Their Front Yard - Wake Up America!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Y_j5l09QQ

This video repeats a few things, but has some good background info since it is a compilation of local reports

11:38 Minutes
Suspended Student May Be Expelled for Rest of the Year for Playing With Toy Gun...in His Own Yard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTqbpOiEk0


2 posted on 09/24/2013 7:27:20 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

The inmates are running the asylum.


3 posted on 09/24/2013 7:27:53 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: Whenifhow

Um, HIS front yard.


4 posted on 09/24/2013 7:27:58 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Whenifhow
Coming soon -- Nacht und Nebel

The government crackdown will escalate until we get to the point where heinous transgressors like this child are just "disappeared". It's what the Left does.

5 posted on 09/24/2013 7:28:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Whenifhow

living in virginia... what’d you expect? might as well live in new york


6 posted on 09/24/2013 7:28:23 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Whenifhow

He’s her property until he becomes the schools property????


7 posted on 09/24/2013 7:28:56 AM PDT by Frapster (Clear the mechanism)
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To: Whenifhow

btw... ‘firearm’ ... it was an airsoft gun. no fire was involved.

at best, it was a projectile weapon


8 posted on 09/24/2013 7:29:16 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Whenifhow

The bureaucrats are totally out of control.

(Although 13yo ‘Khalid’ with a gun doesn’t inspire confidence.)


9 posted on 09/24/2013 7:29:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Whenifhow
From the story:

The school's so-called "zero-tolerance" policy on guns extends to private property, according to the report.

Likely to include Pop-Tarts chewed down into "gun" shapes? Government schools suck.

10 posted on 09/24/2013 7:29:30 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Whenifhow

The Public Indoctrination System apparently owns our kids before they even leave their homes, now. Appalling totalitarianism.


11 posted on 09/24/2013 7:30:13 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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Insanity.

Defund the Left’s indoctrination centers and padlock the doors for good.


12 posted on 09/24/2013 7:30:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The GOP establishment is like a dodo bird: Not too bright and on its way to extinction.)
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To: Whenifhow

If school authorities or teachers cannot, or will not, make a distinction between a real “firearm” and a toy they are not mentally or morally competent to be in a position of responsibility and influence over children of any age.


13 posted on 09/24/2013 7:30:44 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Frapster

He’s her property until he becomes the schools property????
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I noticed that comment too, but I think she meant that the incident took place on “their” property.

Chalk it up to a nervous mom?


14 posted on 09/24/2013 7:30:53 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Maybe someone ought to explain to the school the difference between a toy gun and an actual firearm. They should include actual examples of each.


15 posted on 09/24/2013 7:31:04 AM PDT by cork (Remember Bengazi!)
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To: Whenifhow

golly as kids we used to play Cops & Robbers, Cowboys & Indians, etc. I wonder what they want the kids to do when they play?? Let me guess??


16 posted on 09/24/2013 7:31:14 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Whenifhow

So, I’m guessing paint ball and going duck hunting are out? You value your freedom to go and hunt as guaranteed by the 2nd amendment(at least that’s what the libs think)and just the mere thought that you might embrace that freedom you get a mark on your “permanent record”. The downward spiral continues. Insanity prevails. DON’T ever let your kids post pics of them hunting on social networks or they are doomed to being ostracized by the elitists.


17 posted on 09/24/2013 7:31:25 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: Whenifhow

Said policy also covers bladed weapons. I would posit that every child in the district should face the same punishment, for the cutlery in their kitchens.


18 posted on 09/24/2013 7:32:31 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Whenifhow
Hahahah this is just beyond belief.

Why am I laughing? I was just at parents weekend at Ohio University Athens Ohio and our daughter wanted to go to Wal-Mart to get a better nerf weapon for her Humans vs. Zombies ARG she is entered in that takes place on Campus.

While visiting the campus this weekend I watched several students and a few profs and staff have a large nerf weapon battle on the quad. They take their Humans vs. Zombies ARG seriously and practice often.

I guess Southern Ohio is just different. ;-)

19 posted on 09/24/2013 7:32:44 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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“At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest. ” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
20 posted on 09/24/2013 7:33:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When your policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on enthusiastic support from Paul.)
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