A Colorado 12-year-old draws a 5-day suspension, and police come to his home for a “health and wellness check” after his Zoom school teacher sees him pick up a toy guy, and set it down again.
Do school board zero-tolerance gun policies apply to your children in your own home? Did this pre-teen ‘Zombie Hunter’ pose a threat to others? And why did the school capture the child on video after his parents refused permission to record their son?
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My favorite Christmas presents one year was a gun belt, holster, cap gun and cowboy hat. I was probably about 7 years old.
I grew up in rural VA. Still live here. I can remember back in the 80s, when there were guns in the HS parking lot. No one thought anything about it. People went hunting before or after school. My older brother carried his pocket knife to school everyday. I grew up around guns on the family farm. I learned to be careful with them.
Every boy I knew in high school carried a pocket knife. So did I, in my purse. And you know what else I carried? OTC medications like Tylenol and ibuprofen! O, the horror! And I actually gave them to my friends when they had a headache! I’d be expelled for that today.
My college, COLLEGE, has similar rules re: Nerf guns and the like. We’re also a campus carry school.
I have been saying for years there is an inverse correlation between the number of rules vs common sense in any given situation: the more rules there are, the more people outsource their common sense and discretion to those rules. And in cya terms, they have to, as they cannot be held responsible if they obey the rules. A couple of years back, here in England a young child drowned in a village pond. Two police officers were there but did not save the child because they had not had training on how to save people from drowning in ponds. Had they acted without having had that training, they were afraid of consequences if it went wrong.
Bill and Scott you should you should read Wesley Bruce’s blog if you haven’t already. He explores various ‘ballot box’ outcomes and how they are controlled. Very interesting! And how Trump will win!
The school officials had to do what they did. The Zombie Hunter was a direct threat to them. Mindless school officials= Zombie’s
Sorry I can only up-vote once. that was good!
Tort reform is sorely due. So…. who’re we gonna enlist to do this? Lawyers?
If my parents ever owned real guns, they never told me and they kept them so well hidden that I never saw them. (I wasn’t one to go digging in their room, either.) I had plenty of toy guns as a kid, though, and my brother had a BB gun which I sometimes used.
I never owned a gun myself until this year (got a pistol in February in case people came looking for food because shutdowns; post-riots I got a shotgun). I took and am still taking instruction for them and I keep them safely at home, except when I’m carrying the pistol or going to/from the range. (Pennsylvania is shall-issue and I’m fully licensed.) I’ve never been anti-gun, I just never decided that I needed a gun before.
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize a freakin’ toy gun. As Bill said, all this rigid policy bullshit has to go. Until it does, I’ll keep on responsibly arming myself. If Trump wins, and probably if he loses, I’m gonna need my guns.
The founders made a big mistake when they included explanatory language in the second amendment. It’s the only place in the entire constitution, the preamble excepted, that tries to justify itself instead of just stating the rules. The wording should be simply, “The right of The People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” We’re paying the price for that error more and more every day.
The follow-up by the parents needs to be to plaster the child’s room with pro-military, pro-Trump posters so that the kid’s Zoom background catches them all.
If the teacher or school had a concern, they should have called the parents and asked that guns (even toy ones) be put out of view of the camera. Simple, common sense. No suspension, no police involvement, problem solved.
Policy followers have abdicated “common sense” in all legal arenas, including product liability, medical liability, sexual harassment etc.. Indeed.
We need to hold these people to the limitations set out by Rob Reiner himself in A Few Good Men. When the man in charge orders a Code Red to be performed on an innocent, he should be arrested. Since he has absolutely NO CHOICE to do anything but the most extremist action, he should be taken off the wall and put in jail. Funny that the “All Cops Are Bastards” crew keeps calling the police on children.
One more thing in response to something Bill just said:
All of my children had toy guns when they were young. Now some of them have real ones, and they treat them responsibly. Woe to anyone who comes to take them.
Playing with toy guns was one of the joys. We would go outside and roam for hours, chasing each other. Our parents didn’t really know where we were. But I am old enough that our high school not only had ROTC, but also a rifle team that had it’s own shooting range in the basement of the school.
Oh, the horror! And riding mini bikes and bicycles with no helmet! How did we survive childhood without living in a bubble of “safety!” We all must be safe at all costs now, no risks. In other words, no liberty, no freedom to explore and develop as human beings, no doing anything that is not risk free or “SAFE!” Safe, safe safe! So sick of it. If I hear it again, and i’m sure I will, I will probably throw up.
Excellent comment! I couldn’t agree with you more. See you in the bathroom!
Don’t bother with the bathroom. Find a leftist’s shoes!
Good idea!!
Yes, If I make it! After seeing the latest local news telling me to wear a mask, social distance and wash my hands to be “safe,” for the hundredth time, and political pundits and teachers saying it is not “safe” to open schools, I wonder why it was ok to drive a car or have a bus take your kids to school. This is a risk we all take everyday and accept. We have mitigated the risk by constantly improving the vehicles we drive, road conditions and such. Can we not do the same for risks associated with viruses such as covid 19? Or are we all going to hide in a bubble of “safety?” What if we did this for driving on our roads, should we ban driving as a unacceptable “risk?” About 40k die every year from auto accidents. This gets stuped really fast as you go down the list of “risks” we take everyday. For human development we need to be open to certain risks, and not shut down when one presents itself, rather we must work on ways to make it a reasonable and workable risk for all concerned.
I couldn’t agree with you more!! 1.35 million die from car accidents.
Mind your own business. Privacy used to be respected but no longer modern life and the internet have destroyed that the real con job was to expect that petty bureaucrats would not exploit it as well. Can that genie ever be put back in the bottle and would we really want to?
My stereotypical, visceral reaction to this is always the same: come to my house with the intent of these sheriff and deputies, and you will not be finding a toy gun meeting you at the door. While watching our youngest daughter play hockey against a Colorado women’s college team in the Denver area the last winter, I was telling my wife how much I dislike Colorado because it has become too much like California. The “Hollywood snobbery” is apparent everywhere.
This sort of autocratic behavior of our so-called “enlightened betters” that has been thrust upon this young boy and his family must be met with all requisite force — whether it is at the ballot box or elsewhere. Of course, the ballot box outcome is not really dependent upon the voters’ participation as much as it is dependent upon the vote counters’ results.
You should read Wesley Bruce’s blog. He explores various ‘ballot box’ outcomes and how they are controlled. Very interesting! And how Trump will win!
If the police officers don’t act they can be liable so they are forced to act. The school is in the same insane situation. Writing a new Zoom specific set of class rules may take several years, a few teachers union led strikes and a dozen meeting with parents etc that the headmaster probably thinks will be a fast way to catch the plague. Trump will win big I believe and there will be a wonderful battle as we round up these insane people and put them back in the asylum.
Start home-schooling RIGHT NOW! Most of today’s teachers were brainwashed all along their formative years. Sending your kids to school is tantamount to psochological abuse. If public school students move to college, the damage will be permanent. Just watch the recent-daily- “protests”.
I remember Glenn Beck ranting about this a very long time ago (when he was still on Fox). He pointed out that one of the most under-utilized resources we have in this country is bored seniors. Bored seniors who were well educated before most of this nonsense started. He begged people to “home-school your grandchildren,” and form cooperatives with friends, neighbors, and churches so that the retired engineer can teach math and the retired legal secretary can teach grammar, and so forth.
Vote as if your life depends upon it because it does.
Trump 2020 gives us a chance. Otherwise it is over. It will be 100% bullets delivered without mercy. Again, ugly is an understatement for what conditions will be.
You should read Wesley Bruce’s blog. He explores various ‘ballot box’ outcomes and how they are controlled. Very interesting! And how Trump will win!
Once again: bingo! We let the lunatics takeover the asylum. A society must be led by the strong as it offers compassion to the weak. No free rideS or the key to city hall or, God forbid, the White House! Good job, gentlemen and, yes, President Trump needs 4 more years or America will burn to the ground. The hysterical mobs are already doing it!
School rules now dictate household property and activities? Who wants to go back to a musty old building that limits the reach of bureaucracy when you can reach right out on the web and plant your flag on every house that holds a student?
This episode was quite literally about the Police State. Mind you, with the lockdown still going on in many states this ought not to surprise anyone of us. Yes, it’s time to turn-back the clock and return to our former days of sanity.
My friend, where I live real Americans are as rare as unicorns. The only thing that can make a real America is real Americans. I just heard that school books will now include images of children in sexual situations. If we cannot stand to end that (as a nation), we are as far from the founding principles as we are from the Oort Cloud.
I want to be an optimist. I want to believe that optimism will find its reward in a near alteration of the culture. I just don’t see any actions taken to change the destructive path that we are on.
May GOD help us.
God and Trump! A winning combination!
Talk about your real basket of deplorables! That’s disgusting. Like Larry Elders says, “we’ve got a country to save!”
Craig, you are so very right.