Posted on 12/11/2015 1:23:39 PM PST by PROCON
A North Dakota father is calling for the principal at his son's school to be fired for banning a yearbook photo that shows him holding an assault-style rifle.
Fargo North High School Principal Andy Dahlen said Josh Renville's gun-toting portrait is in violation of school policy.
According to Dahlen, the school does not allow guns on its property nor does it allow 'students to wear clothing that depicts guns or weapons or any violence or drugs or alcohol.'
In Renville's yearbook submission, the strapping 17-year-old, who is an avid hunter and fisherman, is seen holding an assault-type weapon in his right hand and posing in front of an American flag while dressed in a patriotic star-spangled tank top.
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Liberalism = Stupidity.
People, showing them is never a good idea.
Put the “Gun Free Zones” signs out.
Then you can surprise them.
I double dog dare them to say entrapment.
Better to give them a reason to avoid you from the beginning, than to let them get the drop on you _then_ “surprise ‘em”. Most assailants are looking for easy targets - give a reason to think you’re not. Odds are you don’t have anything they want _that_ badly.
I’m as conservative as the next, but whatever happened to a yearbook photo of a young man in tie and jacket? Whatever happened to parents and schools reaching a compromise rather than both going postal? This country is going insane.
That said, once you go to an anything-goes approach, there's no reason to keep the firearm photo out.
That’s why I do “Open Carry Friday” these days. Nothing says Locked and Loaded like a Glock mod 20 and 3 spare mags in a drop leg holster. Works especially well for exiting and entering vehicles.
Thank you! I’m glad I’m not the only one who had that reaction...
They do both - formal and informal senior pictures.
Times have changed unfortunately.
Unfortunately too, freedom of expression has changed.
They are trying to make kids scared of guns!
Well, if that's the case, then serves me right for jumping to conclusions.
Thank YOU. I thought I was going crazy.
I think most schools these days offer both “dress” and “casual” poses.
The dress photos are generally the ones that show up in the annual.
Even so, I would not have been caught dead in a tank top in a yearbook photo (even a “casual” one).
Oh well, times change, I guess.
As to my second point: why does everyone have to go nuts today? Why can’t the boy submit to authority? He’s going to have to one day. Why does the father have to get all worked up? My dad would have said: them’s the rules, obey them.
These are rhetorical questions, of course.
You’re not alone in that sentiment.
I sent e-mail to the high School -—too bad their students are not taught what Justice Joseph Story said about the Second Amendment —about the “no small danger” of losing this clause in our National Bill of Rights. I added the note that in 1492 Spain finally overthrew their Islamic Oppressors after 700 yrs . of Islamic Law— WHY would anybody desire such a fate for the children -and their children’s children the school is now entrusted with?
Our Schools were much safer places for everybody before they started to teach the fear of firearms.To ban a photograph because It shows a Patriot with -gasp- a long gun?is nauseating and IGNORANT.
That American flag is pretty provocative to an Amerika-hating liberal, too.
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