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A 6-year old boy in Maryland received a one day suspension from school for pointing his finger like a gun and saying, “Pow!”
This kid probably would have got into less trouble for pushing one of his classmates to the ground.
Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post gets the absurdity of the situation:
Look, if we have a problem six-year old boys pointing fake guns, the place to start is not the kids….Children used to play Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers. These days, they’d be arraigned for genocide and theft. If we have a problem with children with imaginary guns, the answer is not to clamp down on their imaginations. They only put out what we put in.
Whether it’s suspending six-year olds or a newspaper publishing the names of registered gun owners, let’s stop making Adam Lanzas out of people who aren’t.
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mike 3/505| 1.3.13 @ 11:06PM
Then the Punch line...
The Cowboy looks over at the young Jihadi and says, "That's because we haven't gotten around to playing Cowboys & Arabs yet."
Bob Grant| 1.3.13 @ 11:34PM
Ok so forming one's hand in the shape of a gun is worth a one-day suspension.
And a kid lighting his own fart will land him????
People, you DO realize this is how kids in '20's Soviet Union and '30's Germany were raised?
spike59| 1.4.13 @ 5:48AM
"And a kid lighting his own fart will land him????"
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his own gig on MSDNC
Tina B| 1.4.13 @ 6:55AM
Very good Spike!
c. j. acworth| 1.4.13 @ 9:25AM
The question I haven't heard answered yet is did his finger have a high-capacity magazine?
Stan Redmond| 1.4.13 @ 12:28PM
I don't know for certain but I heard it was a semi-auto finger
Bob Grant| 1.4.13 @ 1:53PM
I dunno. I heard the kid simply told another kid to pull his finger. His hand may or may not have been in the form of a gun.
How people over react...
PeteM1999| 1.4.13 @ 11:17AM
This is what happens when the loonies are running the asylum.
Enough is enough it is time to start letting kids be kids again.
When I was a kid I learned a lot on the play grounds, in the gym and in school.
I learned that not everyone is a winner, sometimes your team loses and I learned how to deal with defeat.
I learned that if I ran my mouth to someone who was bigger and stronger than me, it could get real painful real fast.
I learned how to deal with bullies.
I also learned compassion.
I learned that when teams were chosen that if you werent any good you didnt get picked, so if you wanted to play you needed to get better at the game to play.
I also learned how to deal with problems and if all else failed how to fight.
I learned how to defend myself.
We played kick ball, basket ball, football, tether ball, dodge ball, tag and a whole bunch of other games. We teased each other and we got teased. We made friends and enemies. Basically on the play grounds, in the gyms and in school we learned how to live life so that when we moved on we were ready for it.
Stan Redmond| 1.4.13 @ 12:30PM
I remember "Smear the Queer" and "Suicide Soccer." We made crossbow pens and rubber band shooter and shot eachother all day. you should see what we made in metal shop once we hit high school. Ah the good ol' days.
John Navratil| 1.4.13 @ 2:45PM
PeteM1999,
Of course all the playground equipment is gone. No slides, climbing bars, see-saws or merry-go-rounds. Too dangerous! What else was the kid going to do with his hands? They're too small to throttle the midget minds in charge.
Bob Grant| 1.4.13 @ 2:50PM
Very good!
Tom Kyba| 1.4.13 @ 11:32AM
Okay Aaron, she sort of gets the absurdity, but then says "they only put out what we put in". And what would her followup to that last sentence be hmmm?
Occam's Tool| 1.4.13 @ 1:41PM
This was because the school was afeared of lawyers suing them....
Lawyers may have common sense in their personal capacities, but in their professional capacities they are dangerous morons, on the whole. I have EXTENSIVE decades long experience as an expert witness.
Frog in Uniform | 1.4.13 @ 9:57PM
They finally realized that the problem is not the gun but the finger operating the trigger.
What's that Chinese proverb? Point your finger at the devil and the idiot will point at your finger?