A pencil is a weapon.

[look 171]

When I taught HS woodshop, the kids would make all shapes and sizes of basse ball bats. The admin. put a stop to that saying it was a weapon and they can hurt someone with it, on campus or on they way home, but the kids who play ball could carry that thing with them any place and any time they wwanted. How do people not see or come up with this crap?

[look 171]

Ab out a year ago, my kids were playing with toy remote control tanks. In some of his home or class work there were drawings of a tank or two firing at each other. Their dumb teachers were perfectly fine with it, but it it were guns, I am sure they would calll immediately.

[mikeesik]

I heard this saying before.
Let's just NERF The world.
But....now they make guns that remind me what clowns in the circus used when I was kid.
And they shoot these bullits that are the same shape and just a little sturdier than Tampons.
Time I think to outlaw both bullits.
What will the females say?

[Eric 951]

Just crazy. Zero tolerence takes the thinking part out of any equation.

We had a rifle range in the basement of our middle school and regularly particpated in air rifle shoots as part of gym class. If you were good enough with the pellet gun, you could graduate to a .22

[varmint]

this is an opportunity to have a talk with your kids.


explain to them that there are things called "fanatics". and that not all adults are to be respected.

[legion]

Man Arrested For Allegedly Shooting Realistic Toy Gun With Kids « CBS New York

As CBS 2’s Dave Carlin reported, Jack Pawlowski was led out of his Queens home in handcuffs Wednesday, with his stunned wife and three young kids looking on. He said nothing as detectives put him into a squad car.

But earlier, he allowed CBS 2 up to the family’s apartment to get a video of what he calls the harmless “kids’ toys” that started it all.

Pawlowski told CBS 2 he took a toy gun, and two of his kids, around the corner to Ditmars Park. It was around noon and packed with kids and their parents.

It appears some in the park thought the guns were real at first.

“At first I thought I was hallucinating,” said Maria Smilios of Astoria. “He pulled out this gun.”

Smilios saw the toy up close, and at first thought it was the real thing. She gave CBS 2 a cellphone photo she said shows Pawlowski firing pellets at a tree.

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by Eric 951

Just crazy. Zero tolerence takes the thinking part out of any equation.

We had a rifle range in the basement of our middle school and regularly particpated in air rifle shoots as part of gym class. If you were good enough with the pellet gun, you could graduate to a .22

I'd like to see a return to shooting being commonplace all over the USA. Gun safety would go up if everyone knew how to handle them and what happens down barrel when you pull the trigger on a loaded gun.

I never took up with guns or shooting as my eye sight is soo atrocious, but I was made to learn how to handle a gun at a very very early age. Funny thing, I've never shot anyone...

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by legion

Man Arrested For Allegedly Shooting Realistic Toy Gun With Kids « CBS New York

OK, that was stupid letting a kid ride around pointing a bb gun at people.

[sammyg2]

From a movie about G Gordon Libby.
Going off memory from a long time ago, paraphrasing at best:

principal:
your son got in a fist fight with another student.

Libby: did he win?

Principal: Here at ________ academy, we learn to use our words to express ourselves, not our fists!

Libby: France took that same approach in the 30s, while the kids in Germany were learning to fight.
In WWII Germany walked right through the French in a matter of weeks!

[PorscheGAL]

Funny thing is a pencil can be a weapon.

When I was in the 1st grade the boy who sat beside me was picking on me. I was always the smallest in the class. One day I had enough, I shove my pencil straight through his hand. My punishment: No recess for 2 days. Things sure have changed. Imagine if that happened now. By the way, he never bothered me again.

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

From a movie about G Gordon Libby.

Liddy

[stealthn]

Did the school provide the pencils? If so they should be punished under the same stupidity for providing weapons to kids, perhaps some jail time for the teacher and principle would smarten them up.

Seriously....

[onewhippedpuppy]

Further affirmation that my decision to send my kids to a private Catholic school was the right one. My 2-year old son picked up a 1/4 ratchet the other day that had a deep socket on it and started shooting it like a gun. He also shoots sticks, bats, and pretty much anything else that is that general shape. My 9-year old has had a bb gun since age 4 and a .22 since age 8. I'm apparently raising two future mass murderers!!!

[cashflyer]

The kid needs this shirt.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Further affirmation that my decision to send my kids to a private Catholic school was the right one. My 2-year old son picked up a 1/4 ratchet the other day that had a deep socket on it and started shooting it like a gun. He also shoots sticks, bats, and pretty much anything else that is that general shape. My 9-year old has had a bb gun since age 4 and a .22 since age 8. I'm apparently raising two future mass murderers!!!

Our 3 year old is the same way. If it can be picked up it is a gun, missile, or bomb. Sometimes it is a good guy airplane that will shoot guns, missiles, or bombs.

[widgeon13]

I remember the good old days when the most trouble one could get into was smoking in the boys room.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Our 3 year old is the same way. If it can be picked up it is a gun, missile, or bomb. Sometimes it is a good guy airplane that will shoot guns, missiles, or bombs.

That's exactly what my 5 year old was doing with his friends but with their water bottles

[Racerbvd]

One of my friends, a Music teacher, got in trouble for showing this

[Tanick]

I don't think I've even seen a toy gun in the shops over here for years. Even over here in Anti-gun-land, my kids get to shoot at school as part of the cadet force. Just don't ask about the outfits...

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

One of my friends, a Music teacher, got in trouble for showing this

did she get in trouble because it was not district approved TV show or was it because of the guns in the cartoon? I bet it was the approval deal