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serious overreaction
10 year old takes cap gun to school, later goes to a kid's house with it and asks if he wants to play. Kid runs back into house and calls 911.
End result: 10 year old is arrested, charged with possessing a weapon (??) at school and with making "terroristic threats" (some States have that as an offense).
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Fear that the next toy gun at school might result in a Virginia Tech or Columbine cause these WTF moments. Once authorities realised it was a toy the level of response should have dropped. Charging him? Inappropriate and excessive.
I dont understand it was a friggen toy! whats the problem. Sounds like the teaching staff needs to grow the fuck up.
Well, what do you expect? The kid is black and in Atlanta. And, after all, it is has been well established that toy gun control laws were originally aimed at getting toy guns off the streets and out of the hands of black children so that they couldn't pretend to defend themselves against white kids who were playing KKK.
Right?
Right?
"It kind of reminded me of the [soldiers'] guns that I was studying," Alandis said, "because I had brought pictures home of the gun and stuff, and that gun that I had reminded me of the revolver" depicted in his textbook.
So it's OK when teachers make "terroristic [sic] threats" against their students by showing them pictures of real guns, but let a student draw a picture of something that vaguely resembles a gun in an art class, and they all circle the wagons and pretend it's another VT or Columbine.
Once more: My plan is to separate the country down the Mississippi. All the lillylivered chickens who want laws like this get the east. Those with guns, honor, and balls get the west. Those who can't figure out where they belong are sent to the east.
Dominus providebit!
This story surprises anyone?
FWB, that's no good. You need the great lakes states, second coast, fresh water.
Tom,
We have a second coast. East coast of Texas, where the oil refineries are...
Gee whiz! What about a 5-year old pointing a finger and yells "bang! bang! Your dead!" Will that child be charged with "making a terroristic threat"
Are we entering a new age of "witch hunts" or what?