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Full title: Students Suspended For Playing With Pellet Gun in Own Front Yard, One Mother Called Because It Made Her “Uncomfortable” to See a Boy Point a Gun She Knew Wasn’t Real
1 posted on 09/24/2013 10:37:23 AM PDT by matt04
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They should be homeschooled or in a private or parochial school anyhow. Problem solved.


2 posted on 09/24/2013 10:39:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Let’s be very clear. This is NOT a lack of common sense. this is purposefully brainwashing the children of American into being afraid of guns.


3 posted on 09/24/2013 10:39:30 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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I smell a juicy civil rights case......


4 posted on 09/24/2013 10:39:40 AM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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The mother who called 911 needs to be publicly flogged. The principle who suspended the boys needs to also be publicly flogged.

These people are idiots and need to have the idiocy beaten out of them.


5 posted on 09/24/2013 10:40:23 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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The zombies are getting their revenge.


7 posted on 09/24/2013 10:48:00 AM PDT by DannyTN
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The zombies are getting their revenge.


8 posted on 09/24/2013 10:48:00 AM PDT by DannyTN
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A Pellet Gun and a Airsoft Gun are two different types of gun. The only similarity is they use air and springs.
9 posted on 09/24/2013 10:49:27 AM PDT by Garvin (When it comes to my freedom, there will be no debate. There will be a fight)
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An update:

During a hearing Tuesday morning, Aidan Clark and Khalid Caraballo were expelled in a unanimous vote. Clark was offered the option of attending an alternative school, but his father, Tim, told WAVY News' Andy Fox he will be homeschooled.
Caraballo will attend an alternative school.

Update: Seventh Graders Now Expelled For Playing With Pellet Gun Off School Grounds

14 posted on 09/24/2013 10:57:06 AM PDT by CedarDave (Benghazi victim's mom: "Hillary doesn't give a damn about you.")
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One thing need to be perfectly clear. This was not a firearm. This "toy" has never been classified as a firearm, will not fire any gunpowder cartridge of any kind. It is much less powerful than a BB gun and a lot less powerful than any compressed air pellet gun designed to shoot metal pellets.

This toy is made to shoot a very small light weight plastic pellet and a very low velocity. You can do much more damage to someone or something with a child's slingshot.

If you go to the link and look at the picture of the kid holding this "toy", you can clearly see that the muzzle is orange. That is how Toys must be marked so law enforcement knows the difference when they respond to a stupid and ridiculous call like this one.

If my child had one of these on my property and the school or a neighbor publicly stated that he/she had a firearm I would sue the crap out of them. It is not a firearm under any nomenclature, law, or known definition.

Anyone claiming that this is a firearm is guilty of telling a bold faced outright lie. Stupid people?? No, these are left wingers with an anti gun agenda and they and the media who reported it as a firearm are just liars.

15 posted on 09/24/2013 10:57:34 AM PDT by oldenuff2no
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More evidence of the stupidity of the media - a pellet gun and an airsoft gun are very different beasts.

But lets get back to the story’s core - these kids were playing with an AIRSOFT gun, AT THEIR HOME - NOT AT SCHOOL... and got suspended (and may be expelled) from school? Might be the best thing to happen to those boys! That school obviously isn’t someplace I would want my children.

I know quite a few young folks who play paintball regularly - should they too be suspended/expelled from school?

ARGH!!!!


16 posted on 09/24/2013 10:58:25 AM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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The parents should sell their house to a group of radical, militant muslims from Somalia and move to a gun friendly state where their son will be able to grow up around sane people.


17 posted on 09/24/2013 10:58:32 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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This dingbat mother is one of those female voters who will soon elect Terry McAuliffe governor of her state. Probably loves abortion too.


18 posted on 09/24/2013 10:58:49 AM PDT by madprof98
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22 posted on 09/24/2013 11:01:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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Shooting each other is the whole purpose of an airsoft gun.

Its intended use is by kids to shoot one another.


23 posted on 09/24/2013 11:01:38 AM PDT by marron
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We used to play "war" in our neighborhood with BB guns.

Say what you want, but those things hurt even through clothing and winter coats.

24 posted on 09/24/2013 11:03:40 AM PDT by elkfersupper
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Idiocy like this should not be free. The mother who called 911 needs to be identified and held up to public ridicule. The principal and those others involved to suspend these students need to be sued and a gun rights legal defense group needs to fund the legal action. Finally, each of these idiots needs to have their own backgrounds checked to see what might be useful in the continued culture war for America.
25 posted on 09/24/2013 11:06:54 AM PDT by Truth29
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By the time it hits CNN, the weapon in question will be “A fully-automatic assault AK-47 machine-BB gun”. furthermore, they’ll probably claim that the kid bought it at one of those “unregulated Texas gun shows where they sell weapons to escaped mental patients, kids and blind terrorists”.


27 posted on 09/24/2013 11:11:39 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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A suspended seventh grade Virginia Beach student will find out soon if he is expelled for the rest of the year for shooting an airsoft gun.

Like thousands of others in Hampton Roads, Khalid Caraballo plays with airsoft guns. Caraballo and his friend Aidan were suspended because they shot two other friends who were with them while playing with the guns as they waited for the school bus.

Jeez, these F'ing educators are STUPID.. what is next --- you can't eat MEAT in your own home...?

29 posted on 09/24/2013 11:13:39 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul or Sara/Nikki in 2016)
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It was probably an assault-style airsoft weapon. The journalist must be having a bad day to have not thrown that into the horrible account of what the terrorized children, and that mother of a neighbor, had to endure.


30 posted on 09/24/2013 11:18:48 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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According to the school, he was suspended for shooting and hitting kids waiting at a school bus stop.


31 posted on 09/24/2013 11:21:40 AM PDT by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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