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People who need sense knocked into them

"After her 11-year-old son was suspended for twice bringing a loaded handgun to school, Linnea C. Holdren, 43, said the matter was pretty much beyond her control. "I can't lock up his guns," she told police. "They belong to him, and he has a right to use them whenever he wants to use them." (The boy was expelled in January, and Holdren, who is a teacher at her son's Shickshinny, Pa., elementary school, has been charged with felony endangerment.)"

Courtesy of News of the Weird. Other news reports note that her statement to police came after they offered to give her a trigger lock.

Let's get one thing straight, teach:: Dr. Spock was NOT cut out to be a firearms safety instructor.

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