A Colorado teen gets suspended from school and investigated for posting a pic of his gun on social media, and expressing his joy about a trip to the range with Mom. Is there anyway to escape from the media’s gun panic? Do we have two Americas — one where impressive firearms are admired, and the other where every trigger triggers hysteria?
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Teen Suspended for Gun Snapchat Before Trip to Range…with Mom!
A Colorado teen gets suspended from school and investigated for posting a pic of his gun on social media, and expressing his joy about a trip to the range with Mom. Is there anyway to escape from the media’s gun panic? Do we have two Americas — one where impressive firearms are admired, and the other where every trigger triggers hysteria?
17 replies on “Teen Suspended for Gun Snapchat Before Trip to Range…with Mom!”
Stephen, for your edification, “finna” is a slang way of saying “fixing to”. Or in non-Southern, “preparing”.
Several years ago I (as a LE Officer) went to our local College (Chadron State) and visited with a class about LE. Of course, use of force and firearms came up. 6 of the most vocal anti gunners were invited by me (they had never handled or fired a firearm) to go to the range and if they kept an open mind and were honest, I’d buy pizza afterward…. About a week later I met with the students and allowed them to handle, ask questions about and shoot everything from a .22 revolver to a “Full Auto” G36… when we were done we had a very good conversation about the day at the range and 4 out of the 6 actually purchased firearms not long afterwards…. was a very good day (and the Pizza was great!) — just sayin’…..
Welcome one and all to the Brave New World of 1`984 where the “fundamental transformation of America” has become is the new “NORMAL.”
Steven Crowder actually completed Jon Caldara’s challenge in a follow-up to a “Change My Mind” episode. It worked: the two girls shot their first guns and wanted to purchase the gun(s) they had shot–alas, not being 21, they could not purchase the pistols.
I’m glad to hear that Steve’s son has decided to become a chef. The world needs good eats. Speaking of good eats, he should consider the prospect of starting his own cooking show. There are cooking shows on YouTube with over a million subscribers AND those types of shows do not tend to be demonetized. Just food for thought. If you want to take a look at some of the more successful shows, check out Seonkyoung Longest, Same the Cooking Guy, and BBQ Pit Boys. There are many more good cooking shows with subscribers in the hundreds of thousands.
If a child is suspended for this kind of nonsense, the proper parental reaction should be, “Thank you for removing my child. He will not be coming back.” Home school. Schools are dangerous places, not only physically, “because gun free zones” are where sitting ducks hang out, but psychologically and morally dangerous because of the filthy indoctrination going on.
London took all of the guns away and now have rampant knife crimes. Bill’s terror at the thought of a chef knife isn’t too far off the mark. (at least in cynical sarcasm).
What does “Some of field value is invalid” mean?
Logging out and back in seemed to fix it. Anyway…
Guns aren’t dangerous, people are dangerous and getting more so. And the remedy that SJWs lean to is to remove guns instead of removing the dangerous people from civil society. And since SJWs are the arbiters of truth, one is no longer innocent until proven guilty of whatever arbitrary law John Q Public enacts. John Q Public is completely mentally ill and has no moral compass to direct himself to self-evident truth.
Not just people are dangerous, but in particular SJWs are dangerous.
Scott – not only am I of an age where I remember HS students with guns in their trucks and trunks, but my freshman year we still had a rifle team.
It was gone by the next year. Alas.
The first time I shot a handgun I was on a fourth grade (yes 8 or 9 years old) school trip. We went to a nearby lake and stayed in cabins for a long weekend. One of the activities was a gun safety class where we got to shoot the instructor’s .38 (yes, this was a school sponsored trip). He was a local cop that ended up being my PAL baseball coach.
And this wasn’t that rural. I grew up 25 miles from NYC.
My how times have changed.
I was thinking about that. Are kids going to internalize actions like this from authorities and believer they themselves are bad people. Or are they going to externalize the experience and decide people in charge are malevolent idiots?
Yay! I actually tagged you with this story on FB, Steve. As soon as I read it, I thought about you and your sons.
I don’t know if you saw it, but am very happy you did an RA about it!
Scotts two interpretations of the pic of a gun, harkens back to Bill’s take that we live in such a rich and safe civilization that many people don’t have to exercise that part of the brain that responds to threats. And because they never exercise that muscle, they have zero ability to assess a threat. They’ll therefore completely freak out about non-threats such as a picture of a gun.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you – under the guise of “common sense” Red Flag laws…
There’s a simple solution to any government entity that accepts anonymous tips to allow this kind of low level doxxing – start making anonymous tips against every member of the legislature, bureaucrat, and member of law enforcement who is responsible for said passage and enforcement.
As we’re seeing, the Radical Left has become incapable of reason and will only respond to having their own bad behavior throw back at them.
And for the record, I absolutely hate what I’m proposing, and this will only get worse before it gets better
And in this case, conspiracy against constitutional rights is actually a felony.