[RonF]

If this kid walked into the school with a live shotgun shell in his pocket, then some kind of severe punishment is warranted. Although, given this is a 4th grader, the punishment should fall on his parents, not him.

[Hank Kerchief]

If this kid walked into the school with a live shotgun shell in his pocket, then some kind of severe punishment is warranted.

Would you mind explaining what the evil of having a shotgun shell in one's pocket is. Anywhere?

("What if..." does not make anything wrong. I'm not interested in the law here, it's the law I'm questionsing.)

Hank

[GovernmentShrinker]

Huh? You don't know much about shotgun shells, do you?

[Adder]

Yeah...maybe they should have just taken it from him...LIKE THEY USED TO DO. In reading the balance of the article it is apparent that idiots are teaching our kids. How sad. How sad.

[RogueIsland]

If this kid walked into the school with a live shotgun shell in his pocket, then some kind of severe punishment is warranted.

Nonsense. It was unintentional and there was no bad intent. Some common sense should have been applied (something nonexistent in education in America today). The principal should have taken it and kept it in the office until a parent could have come by to claim it. No muss, no fuss.

[Flint]

A shotgun shell is no more dangerous than a can of shaving cream, or WD-40.

[smoking camels]

so I guess you would not like the fact that I carried shotguns to school when I was a kid? (I am 31 yrs. old now) We all did when we were going to a friends house after school. I carried a full hunting knife to school from grades 4 through 8.

[stainlessbanner]

live shotgun shell in his pocket

Just curious, do you think he was going to throw the shell at somebody and hurt them?