What an OUTRAGE!
Real-life scenario: a thirteen year old boy strolls into a classroom and draws his pistol and is granted the VERY lenient “punishment” of a three-day suspension from school. Thank GOD, a very alert and brave teacher was able to spot, and apprehend this child before anybody was hurt.
And, it turns out, his PARENTS are griping about this three-day suspension from school “sentence” handed down from the powers that be. Just what is this world coming to, folks? This child got off easy as far as I am concerned, yet, his parents are making excuses for this abhorrent, completely dangerous, and unacceptable behavior on behalf of their “good little boy”. Where are the REAL parents these days?
Look: As you all know, I’m all for gun rights and about as pro 2nd Amendment as they get, but for crying out LOUD, we can’t just let thirteen year old kids draw their pistols in classrooms and slap ‘em on their wrists for the offense, can we?
From FoxNews:
Arizona School Suspends 13-Year-Old Boy for Drawing Gun
MESA, Arizona — Officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.
The boy’s parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted.
“The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good,” said the boy’s mother, Paula Mosteller.
The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported that the boy said he did not intend for the picture to be a threat. …”
(Snip!)
“… The boy’s father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the school to discuss his son’s punishment, school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the 1999 massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves. Mosteller said he was offended by the reference. …”
My fellow countrymen and women have gone frigging INSANE…
God HELP us all.
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12:40 am on August 24th, 2007 1
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6:40 am on August 24th, 2007 2
GTL,
Either my sarcasm meter is a bit off, or I’ve missed something. The kid sketched a gun. And, that appears to be it. If he’d brought the gun in to sketch it, then I could understand, but I don’t see that from the article.
It seems the kid just sketched a gun from memory and got suspended for it.
Maybe, like me, you skimread the article and got the wrong impression from the phrase ‘drew his gun’?
6:51 am on August 24th, 2007 3
[...] a little miffed and it’s pretty easy to understand why. A thirteen year old draws a pistol AT SCHOOL and all he gets is a three day suspension. Where I come from, that three day suspension is filled with ass whoopin’s galore. Share [...]
9:43 am on August 24th, 2007 4
Now if he had brought a rosary in a glass of urine or an American flag covered with dung, he would have drawn praise for his artistic ability. This is yet another example of the mindless, leftist, nanny-state loons and drones who want all power to rest with the state chipping away at civil rights.
The kid had a thought that clashed with their world view so they stomped on his freedom of expression, freedom of association (tossed him out of school), and due process. At the very least.
A kid (9 or 10 at the time)in the Los Angeles area got the cops called on him when a teacher saw in his pack a PHOTO of him at the range – under the supervision of his aunt who is an LAPD firearms instructor. Others have been kicked out for wearing “I support the 2nd Amendment” shirts (other political messages on shirts allowed). Or for wearing shirts showing that they participate in skeet or trap shooting.
Here is a story, not about kids making pictures of guns, that I got off of the SASS (single action shooting society) Wire :”Back in 2004, my WW2 living history group had been asked to put on a display nearby for a gathering of WW2 vets. The funny thing was, it was at a school, and we got permission to bring weapons. Keep in mind, this was on a weekend and it was a very high profile event. Guess what happened? Some huge lady from the school stopped me at the door (I was carrying my .30 cal MG on my shoulder), and said I couldn’t bring in any of it and I had to get all of it off the school grounds right now.
Huge disconnect. I knew it, all the guys knew it, but she didn’t and by God I had to leave, end of story for her. I put it down on the table right in front of her in spite of LOUD objections that it must leave that very millisecond and if I didn’t, she would throw it out, I went to find the American Legion guy who had given us the green light. By the time I got back to her with him in tow, there were six people telling her we were good to bring in weapons and to stop treating us like this. It was kind of funny to see the look on her face. The way she saw it, It was her pool and we were all taking a giant poop in it! She almost had a stroke when the Assistant Principal came over and apologized to me, right in front of her.
The display went well, the vets loved it. She just glared at me all the time we were there…
Of course, there’s never been another event like that at the school since then.”
Yep. Tell me again how tolerant, diverse and inclusive the left is. I keep forgetting because I get shouted down every time I bring up the RKBA at any gathering of Dems or other left leaning types here in diverse, tolerant and inclusive Sonoma County, CA.
11:37 am on August 24th, 2007 5
Paul, yeah… sorry… the piece was written with sarcasm turned up to TEN, bro
11:55 am on August 24th, 2007 6
Glad you picked up on this story. It pissed me off so much I couldn’t figure out a way to write about it.
I don’t know if the story is the kid getting expelled for his piss poor sketch of a gun or the mind set of these ignorant pendajos that make the judgments of this silly-assed, zero tolerance policy.
I wonder if they would fire a vet teacher who had a field cross tatooed on his or her arm?
8:03 pm on August 24th, 2007 7
Well I’m in and I’m a liberal.
I think people are misreading your intent here GTL. I got the sarcasm immediately but I see Real Clear Politics listed us as opposing views.
Great post, as always.
8:49 pm on August 24th, 2007 8
i think this type of zero-tolerancism is a form of institutionalised paranoia, which makes adults seem foolish.
c’mon, nobody wore helmets when they rode their bicycles when i was a kid, and peoples’ dogs weren’t fenced in with tasers strapped to their necks.
and if a kid draws a picture of a gun in school he’s just the same old wiseguy we all went to school with…
but now he’s national news.
9:50 am on August 25th, 2007 9
The education establishment and educationalists in the U.S. are terribly confused these days. This is some of the best evidence of its deteriorating condition that I’ve seen lately.
Good think he didn’t draw a picture of 2 pit bulls fighting or he’d have been expelled.
11:35 am on August 25th, 2007 10
the funny thing is (sarcasm)– that same pistol drawing kid is gunna wind up with a real gun in iran or some other ‘evil doers” country because the ‘adults’, that is the ‘left’ and ‘right’ are a bunch of fools, whom we the people have put in charge of ourselves.
this country no longer has two main parties, just two competing fascist parties.
i don’t think the educators in this country are confused at all, just a bunch of sheep trying to save their asses and families like the rest of us.
we the People are afraid of our own government…
it’s high tide.
6:14 pm on August 25th, 2007 11
Wow, I sketched all sorts of things in middle and high school. Most of them aren’t fit for public display, but yeah, I did draw guns, and cigarettes, and lots of other things. Why? One they were easy to draw, and and two it was fun drawing “naughty” things. Apparently there’s a hiring policy at schools today against people who were once children themselves.
6:25 pm on August 25th, 2007 12
kodos Lit3bolt.
remember carving band names into your desk when you where a kid!!
imagine what would happen if, god forbid, kids got a hold of The Wall nowadays’.
teachers leave us kids alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6:29 pm on August 25th, 2007 13
all in all, it’s just another brick in the wall–Roger Waters.
wow, what a metaphor that has turned out to be.
10:06 pm on August 27th, 2007 14
Today, everyone especially TV comentators, immediately jump to the conclusion that fits their point of view and then moves on quickly, satisfied that the world is exactly what they thougt it was. It never occurs to them that there may be factors that would suggest another explanation for behavior. I don’t know what happened in AZ. There are a lot of narrow (smple) minded school administators and there are a lot of parents who believe their children can do no wrong. We learned nothing about what preceeded the incident. We really know nothing about the character of the child. Often more information makes behavior understandable if not excuseable.