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« Fred Thompson and the NRA | Main | Still out of pocket »

The latest extreme

Posted by David Hardy · 16 September 2007 07:37 AM

Graduates at Cornerstone Elementary School in California traditionally placed images of what they wanted to be when they grew up on the front of their graduation caps.

This year, those that placed plastic soldiers there were told that they must remove the tiny rifles from their hands, lest it offend the no tolerance of weapons policy

Via Gun Watch.

7 Comments | Leave a comment

Letalis | September 16, 2007 10:20 AM | Reply

Hey, for the whackjob pacifist Left, this is a three-fer:

1) You demonstrate to the impressionable youngster the all-knowing power of the State.

2) You demonstrate to the impressionable youngster that guns are bad.

3) You demonstrate to the impressionable youngster that wanting to be a soldier will get you punished.

Don Gwinn | September 16, 2007 12:26 PM | Reply

No offense, but this story was all over the place at the beginning of the summer. Didja see what the little brats did to get their own? :)

All the little soldiers had their weapons cut off, which necessitated cutting off their hands. So the little subversives applied cotton and white paint to simulate blood-soaked bandages.

I think the artists intended to show us American soldiers, disarmed and betrayed by the home front, facing jihadists unarmed, wounded and bleeding.

Bill | September 16, 2007 5:09 PM | Reply

I would have told the administrators to go pound sand. This is the epitome of absurdity. Check that - I'm sure the loony lefties will find some other form of moonbattery to surpass even this inanity.

Infantile, purile and just plain stupid. I shake my head ruefully at them.

straightarrow | September 16, 2007 9:49 PM | Reply

I wouldn't have shown up and I would have tried to get as many of my classmates as possible not o either. Then I would have sued them for allowing others to show their preferences while denying me.

GMC70 | September 16, 2007 10:58 PM | Reply

Good God.

How do you expect the society at large to take education seriously when you read this kind of crap? I'd like to believe this is an abberation, but no, this kind of PC silliness (and yes, indoctrination) is routine in the halls of academia. Too many bizarre anecdotes, from too many sources.

Common sense has been completely eliminated from some quarters; our schools seem to be foremost among them.

Windy Wilson | September 20, 2007 9:15 AM | Reply

You know, if a 5 cm pointy piece of soft plastic is a weapon because it is miniature image of one, and a little cross on a county seal which is there to recall the time when the county was run by the Catholic Church is an establishment of religion, and there are any number of court cases ultra-strictly construing "freedom of speech" and "the freedom of the press", just how strictly are we to construe "shall not be infringed"?

DirtCrashr | September 20, 2007 12:39 PM | Reply

What about the little green guy with the grenade? :-) Put a Palestinian Shemagh scarf on him and he's good to go I bet...

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