Yakima kindergartner expelled for making a gun with hands

www.kndu.com ^ | 02/12/10 | kndu.com

[ZULU]

How about DemocRat?

[TornadoAlley3]

My 8 y/o son loves to shovel snow.

[TexasFreeper2009]

With kids the way they are today, I wouldn't care if he was 2.

As I said, I would need to know more information about the particular situation.

Has the kid hurt someone badly before?
Has the kid been a continual discipline problem in the past?
Has the kid been warned multiple times to NOT do such a thing?
How ruff a neighborhood do these kids come from?
Has the kid been caught with real weapons at school before?
Does the kid have psychological problems?
Does the kid have serious abuse issues?

I could go on and on... I know it's easy to jump to conclusions and say BUT HE IS ONLY 5! Yeah, that's YOUR 5 year old, but 5 year olds in Somalia are running around with automatic rifles helping mow down opposing tribes.

[Abathar]

Banning thumbs wouldn’t work with my kids, they know daddy has hammerless revolvers at home and would just be pointing at people then blowing the make believe smoke from the fingertip.

[TornadoAlley3]

from the article

Manuel has a clean record never in trouble before his mother says a warning would have worked or even a parent-teacher meeting.

[HIDEK6]

Was the boy’s finger loaded?

I guess they could pull it to find out.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

we have a zero tolerance policy,” said Dr. John Irion, from the Yakima School District

An anonymous phone call to the Yakima Police Department stating that Dr. John Irion has a deadly weapon in the trunk of his vehicle might put to challenge the idea of this "zero tolerance policy".

He might get lucky and not have a tire iron in his trunk, but I doubt it.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

but 5 year olds in Somalia are running around with automatic rifles helping mow down opposing tribes.

Bullshit!

I have heard of kids as young as 9 being recruited in Nigeria as soldiers, but they are usually used to carry stuff for the others. A 5 year old is dramatically different from even a 9 year old in physical ability and mental reasoning.

[Dead Corpse]

One more epithet for them is always good... ;-)

[MrB]

Am I the only one to notice that these “zero tolerance” policies always punish the GOOD kids from good families to the fullest extent,

but you hardly ever hear of an “at risk youth” being kicked out over something like this?

[Colvin]

Oh Please.
The Article says he has never been in trouble.
Plus, I don’t know if you noticed this, but you can not actually load and shoot your finger, even if you say the magic words Bang Bang.

[Last Dakotan]

[FourPeas]

5 year olds in Somalia are running around with automatic rifles helping mow down opposing tribes

I have a very strong 10 year-old; think gymnast. He was about 8 before he could hold and fire one of our semi-auto rifles, but he certainly couldn't run around, nor even walk all that far. He couldn't reload the weapon, and even has trouble now. At age 5? Nope. No way.

Helping to mow down opposing tribes? Do you work for the MSM?

[vwbug]

So if the kid picks his nose with his index finger, do they put him on suicide watch?

[Reddy]

This idiot public school would faint when it found out that my 11 year old home schooled son gets together with another home schooled boy and they shoot REAL ARROWS!! OMGosh! The humanity!

[rickomatic]

So if the kid picks his nose with his index finger, do they put him on suicide watch?

LOL. I hereby nominate your post for "Post of the Day" !! :)

[TexasFreeper2009]

better tell these kids in this picture here

http://www.worldpress.org/images/20091015-shariah.jpg

and while your at it you can update wikipedia with your revelations about children not fighting in wars here

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://taiyak.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/guns1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://taiyak.wordpress.com/&usg=__5fS13_s2txQ8MUf3-D4U9574d3U=&h=286&w=310&sz=12&hl=en&start=64&sig2=BP0Mc2Fix59joA5wnNoplQ&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=JfPZ3iq9bYG6EM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=117&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkids%2Bwith%2Bguns%2Bwar%26start%3D63%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GFRD_en%26ndsp%3D21%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=MS6RS_TSLIO0NoSokNkM

and don't even think of looking at this poor kid here that doesn't exist

http://taiyak.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/guns1.jpg

and here is the muslim version

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://newmedianerd.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/child_soldiers_hezbolah.jpg&imgrefurl=http://newmedianerd.wordpress.com/&usg=__yPNyq8TQMyby3HU_8LqbqM92Kek=&h=288&w=410&sz=56&hl=en&start=9&sig2=7HOWRrfAgUyMX1Iv89n9AQ&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=fA5HjOsVw9ASRM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchild%2Bsoldiers%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GFRD_en%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=IC-RS4n0LYSuNczjuOgM

I could go on and on.. all over the world children are being handing automatic weapons as soon as they are old enough to hold them and pull the trigger.

[FourPeas]

Hmmm, I don't see any of these children actually firing these weapons, repeatedly, or mowing down tribes of people. What I see are children carrying weapons. Yup, little kids can carry weapons. You got me there.

[sand lake bar]

Yakima School District Superintendent John Irion is an idiot.

(Google bomb time)

[TexasFreeper2009]

sorry, put up the wrong link in regards to wiki

here is the correct link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children