Drawings Are Dangerous and Unusual Arms? by Tom Reynolds
Scope wrote about a proposed NY State law to ban BB guns.* David Codrea wrote in Ammoland about another issue which is even dumber; the liberal left that has taken over the public-school systems have declared war on gun images. Not just real guns but any image of a gun sends shivers down whatever spines the liberal left still have left. Here are some examples, which Codrea highlights, that would be amusing if not so stupid:
A fourth-grade boy, playing with LEGOs, faced suspension over the two-inch toy gun carried by a policeman LEGO figure; a toy gun carried by a doll. Doubling down on stupidity, Margie Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education said that there is a no-tolerance policy for toy guns in schools.
A high school senior in Connecticut was suspended and arrested after posting a photo of an airsoft gun** on Snapchat.
In Ohio, a middle school student received a 10-day suspension for “liking” a photo of an airsoft gun on Instagram.
A 16-year-old student in Alabama was expelled from school after she was caught with a toy water gun.
A 12-year-old autistic boy was arrested last week for pointing an imaginary rifle at his art teacher.
In the notorious Pop Tart gun case, a seven-year-old boy in Maryland bit a pastry in the shape of a gun - and had his suspension upheld by a judge.
A three-year-old deaf boy in Nebraska, named Hunter, was forbidden to use sign language for his name because the ASL sign for Hunter slightly resembled the ASL sign for a gun. It also resembled a finger gun that children might make during a game of cops and robbers.
If you think banning drawings of guns is over-the-edge, in some cases schools are only reflecting the idiocy of progressive parents. Growing Up in Santa Cruz (California) shows what “progressive” mothers have to say:
Gina Grajewski, a Santa Cruz parent, agrees that no guns should be drawn in the classroom under any circumstance. “No guns at school. No drawings. Period. No gun play. Period. No guns. Period.”
Santa Cruz parent Kathy Vega, also wants no gun pictures in schools. “I agree with the rules of not drawing guns or weapons at school…If anything, we should try to educate our children not to touch guns in hopes that they will make that decision if they happen to be in a situation where they have access to one.” (only predators would have the same qualms about guns…)
Of course, kids make decisions based on what is new, exciting and enticing; like guns with which they have no experience. The unintended consequence of this ‘mandated ignorance’ will be that kids will have no clue about basic rules of gun safety. If children encounter an unattended firearm, tragedy will be the likely result.
One-way kids learn is by observation and kids have learned about guns in movies and on TV. For instance, it’s easy to disarm a person pointing a gun at you and most shots only end up as “flesh wounds,” which hardly impact the victim. (Sarcasm intended.)
And the liberal lunacy is not confined to guns. In Wisconsin, a 7 year-old boy was arrested for sexual harassment because he used the wrong pronoun!
* S.C.O.P.E. Shooters Committee On Political Education - They’re Coming After Your (BB) Gun by Tom Reynolds
** Air soft guns look like real guns but fire plastic pellets or bb’s by compressed gas or air.
