Posted on 03/11/2014 6:56:30 AM PDT by Rusty0604
An Ohio high school student training to be an EMT was charged with a felony and sent to jail for 13 days because police found a pocketknife during an unauthorized search of his car.
“I didn’t think anything of the Airsoft guns,” said Wiser in a statement. “Our school is a technical school, and I was planning on meeting with my Airsoft team after school. My stun gun was locked in the glove box, and the knife was in my EMT medical vest. I bought it at K-Mart and have it as part of my first responder kit for cutting seatbelts.”
The pocketknife violates the school district’s zero tolerance policy against bringing weapons onto school property — a class 5 felony.
He is worried that a conviction will destroy his chance at a career in public service. Indeed, he has already been expelled from high school and technical school, and had his participation in the U.S. Army’s Future Soldiers program terminated.
As a condition of his release from jail, he was given an ankle monitor and ordered to remove all weapons from his house. Most curiously of all, he was told to have no further contact with his grandfather, who is dying of cancer.
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That’s “Goal #2” of “Zero Tolerance”.
When I was a freshman in high school, everyone had rifles (M1 Garands) for JROTC.
How does such crazyness get so embedded at so many levels of society and government?
Thanks libs! Society is much safer now. If you are trapped in a burning car in a school zone, your First Responders will have to leave their knives and crash axes (aka “weapons”) outside of the Red Zone.
I had a son who was suspended in school for bringing a toy gun to school. This was back in the 1980s, when all of this nonsense started.
This “gun” looked like the sort I would have seen in the 1950s on the “Captain Video” TV show, a cheesy outer space voyager series. IOW, this blue, soft plastic gun looked about as much like an actual firearm as the bitten Pop-Tart that got a youngster in trouble some time ago.
As for the victim of this story, I can only conclude that he does not belong to one of the protected groups.
Lame, IT'S A TOOL. By the reasoning above, Conn. gun owners SHOULD register all their "illegal" weapons, because it's the law and the state is threatening to knock doors down to confiscate them. After, all if they were paying attention to this crap they'd know better than to tempt bad law and policy.
I am not a litigious person by nature. in this case, though, I hope this young man financially breaks the people who put him through this.
I wonder if this young man and his family can be helped by one of the conservative law groups that champion cases of the trampling of Constitutional rights.
Or, given enough of the facts, perhaps a FReeper will organize a fundraiser for his legal fees.
The other is to “equalize discipline”. It’s unfair that the “straight arrow” kids don’t get punished as much as the “prison bound” kids.
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Post of the day!
My two boys have over 100 knives, two shotguns, a couple bows, several bb guns and at least one sword within 50 feet of them anytime they are in school. And that’s just their stuff.
I belonged to a rifle club at my high school circa 1960.
Wrong. 'By the reasoning above' as you stated, a responsible gun owner, with his head on his shoulders and not up his arse, should not carry his piece into a bar if the law disallows it.
Hey, it says you can’t have a club.....how about all those lug wrenches in the trunks of all those teachers’ cars?
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