[NewHampshireDuo]

What a bunch of weenies we've become. Remember when the rifle club members brought their guns to school?

[Conservateacher]

I made a hunting knife in my high school metal shop! Can't recall if I used it on anyone.

[JOHANNES801]

At 11 years old I owned several guns allready.

[BBell]

This Rich Eilinger guy, what a putz.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Somebody could have been killed!

[larryjohnson]

My two Maine grandsons,9 and 11 are homeschooled on their farm. They and their dad each carry a sheathed knife, mebe 6 in blade on their belts. Have for years. Grandgirl, 6 sees no need yet.

[breakem]

The horror!

[JayNorth]

I hope none of the items sold were wrapped in plastic bags. Someone could suffocate! And don't wrap them in festive Christmas wrap (oops...that's "festive winter season wrap")...you might get a paper cut. There's danger lurking all around us.

[azcap]

Ward said the pocket pliers were intended as gifts for fathers or other family members who enjoy hunting, fishing or camping - can be viewed in a new light in this post-Columbine era

 

Columbine - Refresh my memory. Was that the school massacre where two teenagers killed 15 people with pliers?

"Zero Tolerance" has nothing to do with toleration. What it is is Zero Judgment. Because liberals and moral relativist are unwilling to determine right and wrong they will ban everything in the attempt to eliminate all wrong without having to make the judgment.

 

[claudiustg]

This is intolerable. We need vouchers. When private schools begin to syphon off the children maybe these public schools will learn the meaning of common sense. How about being expelled for a year for Advil?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035030/posts

[Liberal Classic]

ZERO TOLERANCE MEANS NO:

OR

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

[Exit148]

PC idiocy!

[weaponeer]

But Rich Eilinger, one of the parents who called to complain about the multi-tools, was shocked that they were on sale. "Two days ago, my son came home - he's 11 years old and in the fifth-grade - and asked my wife if he could buy a knife in school. That raised a few eyebrows," Eilinger said Thursday.

Bunch of weenies is correct. My parents gave me a Cub Scout multi-bladed pocket knife on my 8th birthday. I have carried a knife in my pocket virtually every day of the 47 years since, including all through school. Nobody cared.

I also on many days brought my .22 rifle to school on the bus and kept it in my locker all day until getting on my friend's bus and going to his farm to shoot woodchucks after school. Nobody cared. Nobody ever got shot or cut.

We've become a nation of sheep. Baaaaaaa.

[longtermmemmory]

How long before zero tollerance extends to municipal limits? How about a buffer zone?

Soon only blunted sporks will be allowed.

What a nerf world idiot.

[HungarianGypsy]

For our family birthday exchange one of my sister-in-laws gave my nine year old son a swiss pocket knife. My only fear was that he would try to poke it into the wall, like he did with another knife. But he's been good about it this time.

[Allegra]

GASP! You're going to poke somebody's eye out with that!!

I'm so glad I went to school in simpler times. We were even allowed to sing the Christian Christmas carols in our public school pageants and nobody was ever offended. Imagine that!

[szweig]

When will this "zero-tolerance" nonsense come to an end? It leads to feminization of the society and makes us susceptible to the Left's "come hither" ideas of free lunch.

[HighWheeler]

I once brought a .38 plastic replica revolver to high school as a prop for a "persuasive speech" I had to give. I dragged the gun out of my shirt pocket and not a singel person flinched, screamed, dove for the floor, or ran away.

I got an A+ on the speech, and used the prop to persuade people to wear seat belts.

BTW, not a single person died in a Columbine-style massacre that day. However, even the teacher decided it was a good idea to wear seat belts.

[zook]

"It's a different world today," said Roger Richards, an administrator at the Maine Department of Education

Same world, more a**hole school administrators.

[Husker24]

Have they banned boogers yet, someone could lose an eye.

[Oatka]

The paper has a poll on the middle right hand section of the page:

"Knives as Gifts
The Parent Teacher Club at Hollis Elementary School sponsors a sale of inexpensive gifts so children can do holiday shopping at the school. One of the gifts is a pocket plier - a small multi-tool item that contained a knife blade. Parents of some students who bought the tool at a school with a strict anti-weapons policy complained and the tool was removed from the sale.Should such multi-tools be banned from school-sponsored sales?"

The weenies are closing in:
Yes 47.2%
No 52.8%
Total Votes: 214