I’d like to see a bill like this pass in every state:
The bill also includes a section mandating counseling for school officials who fail to distinguish between guns and things that resemble guns. School officials who fail to make such a distinction more than once would face discipline themselves.
The discipline should be firing. Anyone stupid enough to do such a thing twice, after counseling, shouldn’t be allowed within two hundred feet of a kid.
I was a JRHS and HS student in the late 60’s and early 70’s. It was a time when many teachers, administrators and especially parents were scared to death of the kids doing drugs. I still remember some of the [misinformed, and idiotic] stuff we were told about drugs and becoming drug addicts. I can remember watching some cop show and some character said something about drugs, and I simply threw out that what they’d said was TOTALLY wrong. My parents flipped out, started grilling ME about how I knew SO much about drugs, was I learning this drug stuff at school!
I told them that I had learned IN school not AT school.
I then proceeded to give them the mimeographed sheets with columns and alphabetized descriptions of the drugs, what they did, how they made you feel, how long it took to get ‘hooked’, blah, blah, blah.
But at the end of the day, we were never rounded up for saying ‘pot’ while talking about washing dishes at our job, or for telling your friend he was a ‘dope’, or for anything VERY loosely associated with ‘words’ that sounded like drug words or phrases. These kids are not getting that kind of common sense in their lives. And at the end of it all, there were a HELL of a lot more drugs in ALL 5 of the schools I attended in 3 different states during those JRHS / HS years, than there are guns in the schools now.
And I understand that there are schools where guns still get in now, and there are shootings in schools now, most of it gang related. The ‘Columbine Style Shooting’ sprees are rare comparatively. But way back in the bad old days of 60’s and 70’s Druggy High Schools, many kids had hunting rifles and shotguns in their trucks and cars. Student vs student shooting were almost unheard of.
And as I said before, every boy, or 90% of us, carried a pocket knife, from the age of 8 or 9, all the way to HS Graduation. I don’t ever remember an accidental knife cut, much less a intentional ‘shanking’.
Given all that, I’m just not so sure that any of the poor, defiled children who were attacked with that Pop Tart gun, will truly suffer any ill effects. Now that girl that was threatened with the Hello Kitty Bubble Pistol, we all know her life is OVER.
The Hello Kitty people should be sued out of business!
But not because of the pistol thing by any means, strictly because Hello Kitty is so cutesy, goofy and overpriced and SOOOO over hyped!
The Columbine-style shootings have stopped because jocks have learned not to mess with the weird kids.
Or maybe it (singular, not plural) wasn’t repeated because it was one of those kinds of things that is statistically bound to happen, somewhere, regardless of what anyone does.
Not having inhabited the halls of a high school since 1980, I don’t consider myself qualified to say beyond doubt what cultural changes might have happened in that demographic since Columbine. But I have a feeling the cliques are warring as always.
If only it were just a failure of common sense, it would be easy to deal with. Unfortunately, I am coming to suspect that what we’re dealing with is an effort to make any reference to firearms, no matter how indirect, a thoughtcrime.
Exactly correct.
I am happy to report there is a wildly sucessful. multi-billion dollar counter-indoctrination effort that dwarfs that of the most stedfast coven of progressive cabals:
http://www.callofduty.com/
First they came for the Ding Dongs but I didn’t speak up because I didn’t eat Ding Dongs. Then they came for the bear claws but I didn’t speak up because while I’ve eaten a few bear claws, they weren’t my favorite. Then they came for the doughnuts but I didn’t speak up because I’m trying to cut back on the fat pills. Then they came for the Pop Tarts and there was no one left to speak up.
Seriously, any school official that demonstrates such gross stupidity is too dumb to be allowed around children.
The discipline should be firing.
All it would take is a revocation of sovereign immunity in any case of plausible Bill of Rights infringement.
Al,
top making sense.
Besides, you can’t really take anyone to court over such things. Not in the 21st Century anyway. You have to remember, that many gun owners are middle-class white men, with a Judeo-Christian religious bent, a conservative political outlook and many revere the Founders of the United States.
There can’t be any laws to protect such men, nor the public schooled progeny, they are, after all, the root of most of the World’s problems! Why should ‘they’ be protected?