Posted on 12/11/2015 1:23:39 PM PST by PROCON
Gun rights has nothing to do with this
The kid’s a punk, supervised by a douche-bag father
I hadn’t thought of that. I blame the father. My dad would have given us a clout around the head. He didn’t have to, of course, because he was a fine man who raised obedient children. He told us we would one day be free to express ourselves as adults. And he was right, of course.
For fundraising....most high school yearbooks sell ‘spotlight’ pages. These have nothing to do with the ‘formal’ senior pic pages. Parents/someone pays extra $$ for a quarter, half, full page ‘ad’.
A way to showcase casual Senior pics, interests, memories, etc.
And when this kid starts going in for interviews, every potential employer is going to google his name and learn he caused a big stink about not being able to pose with a rifle in a senior yearbook photo. He’s just closed a lot of doors for himself.
Or, potentially opened some ;-)
You certainly have a lopsided view of authority. Guess you’d have clicked your heels in the 40’s too. As far as trying to insult me about knowing the other side of the comfort zone, yes, i can survive without fine beds and washing machines and dryerss. Have done a lot of camping, hunting, and trekking in myt life, one night in the Plaza in New York and a couple of days later camped out at the Bay of Fundy. Unfortunately you have never had the pleasure of the out of doors and providing for yourself. Poor widdle you.
He is a good-looking young fellow but the photo is inappropriate for school.
Assuming the photo was not his formal photo but appeared elsewhere in the book, would you think differently if the school had an award winning gun club?
Do you think it is possible there was an agenda behind removing gun clubs from high schools? Or suspending grade schoolers when they draw a crude facsimile?
Re: your comments about authority:
Are you arguing we should learn to accept authority as the Germans did in the 1930s?
Do you doubt for a moment there are some who wish to "remake" and "transform" our nation?
How right you are. And some on this thread should learn that this DOES have something to do with the 2nd Amendment.
You made me look at Justice Story’s commentary and it’s worth posting:
§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.
I just went to the Daily Mail article and saw that there were several photos of him with guns. One showed him with his black lab and an ordinary hunting rifle. It was a nice photo - if that had been used in a section on a rifle club, I would have approved. But the one shown was not nice. In it, out of context, he looks like he’s going to visit a quiet college campus, if you get my drift.
If you’re going to go to Germany as an example, the argument has been lost. There is authority and then there is tyranny. Obeying a school teacher is not tyranny; it is authority.
The father seems to be a major jackass.
I enjoy your posts as well.
You're confusing the USA with the USSR. The authority Americans respected was that of the Constitution and our leaders are supposed to respect it, too. By doing so they earned our respect.
But Americans NEVER accepted authority because We The People are the wellspring of that same authority and we delegate some of it to government. Our government is supposed to accept that but too many people these days think that the government has some sort of divine right to rule us.
And that idea can go right back to Hell from whence it came.
Tell me which corporation is open to a kid and his father who tried to sue a school because he couldn’t place a photo of himself in a yearbook? If you think Facebook and other lib corporations (despite what they espouse) wants that kind of person as an employee, I’ve got a bridge in Bk’lyn to sell you. You might not have realized that libs are hypocrites.
You see a punk? Where are the earrings, the nose job, the tattoos, the long hair? I see an All American youth expressing his love for hunting. Seems some on the site go along with the liberal ideas that nobody should have guns, especially “kids.” Well, kids for me are animals. Young men have historically served their country with honor and dignity as young as 17 and 18. In fact I doubt we would have won either the first or second world war without them.
Punk, my foot!
Oh, ma, one night at the Plaza, one night with VDG, and one night a-huntin’ the o-possums and squirrels for the Brunswick Stew!
What a beautiful puppy!
Well, I’d imagine several companies in Texas - and other Constitution loving states (Red, not blue :) would jump at the chance to hire a smart guy (depending on his grades, references, testing, etc) who fought for his right to have his interests/belief in 2nd Amendment rights published.
Maybe a construction company, even....so he could build a bridge in Texas ;-)
Well, we’ll wait with interest, won’t we? A father who tried to sue the school, tried to get the principal (who, sadly, reminds me of Herb Clutter of In Cold Blood fame) fired for what? Not printing a photo they disapproved of! If that’s your America, you can take it and shove it.
They are trying to make kids scared of guns!
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Exactly!
That American flag is pretty provocative to an Amerika-hating liberal, too.
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And obviously of no importance to some who ignore the flag to focus on the gun....without which there would have never been a united States of America and without which our Republic will definitely be LOST!They ignore the fact that children who are taught to fear guns will doubtless never be fit to defend our country.
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