8th Grader Arrested, Suspended for NRA ‘Protect Your Right’ T-Shirt With Image of Gun

[df53141]

This is in West Virgina, if I were the teacher who really dislike NRA, the furthest step I would go is to suggest to him he may need a different shirt next time because some people are not comfortable seeing that, only a suggestion, not order, nor any call to local police!

This feels almost like a Nazi country, I grew up in a country where people has some fear of the government, but not as nearly as repressive as this. Remember the kid who got kicked out for having a cookie in the shape of a pistol?

http://gawker.com/5988299/school-su...r-eating-his-pop+tart-into-the-shape-of-a-gun



8th Grader Arrested, Suspended for NRA ?Protect Your Right? T-Shirt With Image of Gun

 

[VMaxSplat]

Dad needs to be down at the school board raisin hell ASAP!

 

[redlevel]

I have been retired three years now, but I imagine things are the same. There were usually anywhere from 20 to 50 students at school every day with "Barrow Guns" t-shirts on. They had the Barrow Guns text on the front, and an outline of some kind of AR on the back.

I had a student in an Independent Study one year who was dual enrolled at a state university. She came to HS a half day, and drove to Columbus in the afternoon for her college classes. On the day after the VA Tech shootings, she wore a Glock t-shirt to school. She actually worked at Barrow Guns. I told her she might want to change shirts before going to her college classes.

 

[badge]

If ever there is a reason for a civil suite this seems to be it.

 

[snubbyfan]

That's surprises me. WV is a gun friendly state and they're preparing to pass a few pro-gun bills. In our town guns and hillbillies are just a natural combination.

 

[Poodle Soup]

The calling the police is way overboard. The parents should also know that anything gun related at school is looked down at.

 

[Martya]

My opinion is this political correctness krap goes with this 'zero tolerance' krap. Takes all the responsibility and decision-making away from those in charge.

But, in many schools the handbook that the parents sign in agreement at the beginning of each school year includes banning any references to guns and porn and politics and all that other 'progressive' stuff, including showing it on T-shirts.

Such is the world....

 

[nawilson]

Incredible. I bet that a Che Guevara shirt would have been perfectly acceptable though.

 

[Jeffersonwasright]

The calling the police is way overboard. The parents should also know that anything gun related at school is looked down at.

What's even worse is that the police charged and arrested him. If that was my kid, I'd probably be in jail by now.

 

[25elk]

The knee-jerk over the top response from the school is to be expected. The police department however should not be excused for it's outrageous behavior. What trumped up charge could possibly be used against an 8th grader for wearing a t-shirt that could easily have been turned inside out for the balance of the day. This was merely a transgression against school policy not a public safety threat. I wonder how many have been arrested and charged for wearing their pants half way to their knees. Not too many years ago that would have been indecent exposure, and that is a legitimate offense.

 

[PersDef]

This is what the left does and will continue to do if unopposed. They've made the notion of gun ownership so objectionable at the earliest stages of individual development under the guise of preventing another Columbine, that it will be simple to remove 2A rights when this younger generation attains adulthood and voting rights. This ploy works equally well with gay rights, illegal immigration, pot legalization, etc., indoctrination at it's finest!

 

[loc n load]

8th grader

I watched an interview of the "offender" yesterday.....he was jerked up in the cafeteria during lunch and instructed to change his shirt......when he refused the police were called and he was charged with "disrupting school operations".....first thing is why wasn't he called to the Dean's office or principal and isolated so that he could not "disrupt school operations"....when the stand off occurred in the lunch room, of course everybody stopped what they were doing and were gawking at what was happening....who wouldn't......when I was a grade schooler ( late 50's and early 60's), I was a boy scout....every time we had a meeting, us scouts would take our cased 22 rifles to school, stack them in the principal's office and after school, our scoutmaster ( a WWII combat vet & NRA rifle instructor) would round us up and take us South of town to the federal penitentiary training ctr where they had an indoor rifle range. This is how I learned to shoot.
This wasn't out in the sticks, this was in a city of 70,000.....course us scouts used to go to school early, raise the flag, and after school lower it, fold it properly and return it to the principals office daily....think we have lost some things in the past decades.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Lost some things in the past decades? I think a good potion of this country has lost its collective minds.

 

[Old cop]

I don't know but in my day we were not allowed to wear t shirts or blue jeans to school . . . . . .

 

[loc n load]

Silver Dollar

Silver Dollar, after I finish mowing my grass....I am going to sit down and have a tumbler of amber colored libation that comes from your state, and I will drink to that. Amen.

 

[Silver Dollar]

I don't know but in my day we were not allowed to wear t shirts or blue jeans to school . . . . . .

You're absolutely right. I couldn't even get into school without a tie. It didn't have to match anything but it had to be a tie. No jeans, T shirts or sneakers.

 

[KdF]

I don't know but in my day we were not allowed to wear t shirts or blue jeans to school . . . . . .

AND you had to say Ma'am and Sir. Say the pledge of Allegiance every day. Had to actually PASS in order to move on. PE was mandatory.

 

[rwsmith]

Because people that wear the shirts.....

Incredible. I bet that a Che Guevara shirt would have been perfectly acceptable though.

I doubt that anybody wearing a Che Guevara shirt has the slightest idea who Che Guevara was.

 

[rwsmith]

I'm going to be the partial dissenter.....

I'm going to be the partial dissenter here. Schools are places to learn, not make inflammatory statements. That said, it was a matter of school policy, not an issue for the police to be called in on. That part is outrageous.

Guns were not considered to be inflammatory when I was in school in the 60's . My boy is in the 7th grade now and after Columbine and Sandy Hook and school shootings every year in between they have become a big deal. Parents used to be able to believe their kids were safe at school. I liked it when guns were no big deal and most everybody had one but it's just not that way now.

I think one of the biggest differences between now and then is that everybody had guns then, but nobody would think of using them on another person. Now it's desirable to be a notorious killer so you can be famous.

 

[Pasifikawv]

The student returned to school today wearing the same T-shirt. He was joined by more than 100 additional students in Logan County, WV all wearing pro-2a shirts.

Montani Semper Liberi.