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Guns and Grade-School Panic
CNS News ^
| 6/7/2013
| Brent Bozell III
Posted on 06/07/2013 7:36:58 AM PDT by rktman
The specter of school shootings has brought a too-typical staple to local newspaper sections: the boys disciplined at (or suspended from) grade school for bringing a toy gun or anything resembling a gun.
The Washington Post just found the latest wild overreaction, from Calvert County, Md., a blue state that's cracked down on gun rights. "A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school," according to the family.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; childabuse; didiots; guncontrol; gunhysteria; indoctrination; secondamendment
I guess that "Pistol" Pete Mairovich(sp) won't be getting any speaker invitations then. Don't name your kid Hunter or Colt or let them have the initials "AR". Don't refer to bi-ceps as "guns". The absurdity continues.
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posted on
06/07/2013 7:36:58 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
I guess that "Pistol" Pete Mairovich(sp) won't be getting any speaker invitations then. Dead guys don't talk much any how. :-)
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posted on
06/07/2013 7:46:03 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Puppage
Yeah, but they can raise a stink.
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posted on
06/07/2013 7:47:52 AM PDT
by
rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
To: rktman
Mark Steyn wrote, I believe in reference to the infamous pop-tart gun, that no society can survive this type of institutionalized stupidity.
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posted on
06/07/2013 7:51:58 AM PDT
by
wny
To: rktman
“This kind of nonsense does indeed go on a youngster’s permanent record.”
Where are these permanent records kept? I’d like to see mine.
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posted on
06/07/2013 8:35:32 AM PDT
by
KrisKrinkle
(Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
To: KrisKrinkle
You’re not allowed to see them. Only NSA/FBI/CIA/IRS on infinitum.
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posted on
06/07/2013 8:49:48 AM PDT
by
rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
To: Puppage
>>>Dead guys don’t talk much any how. :-)<<<
True, but they vote (Democrat) a lot.
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posted on
06/07/2013 9:21:45 AM PDT
by
Above My Pay Grade
(The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
To: rktman; All
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posted on
06/07/2013 11:24:13 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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