Kindergarteners trade in their fake guns for nonviolent toys (Anti gun GAG alert)

Boortz-Neas News ^ | 2-19-04 | KELLY NIX

[Jotmo]

Five-year-old Martin Pati

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Time out!

They took toy guns onto school property!?!

Kids are getting suspended for point fingers and saying bang and these kids are walking into school with toy guns!?!

Someone needs to break out the zero tolerance policy on these teachers and show them the door. If they told kids to bring in toy guns, they violated Federal Law.

[Travis McGee]

Ah yes, let's raise an entire generation of swishy little poofters.

Boys who would rather kiss another boy than touch a firearm.

Disgusting. Creepy.

[spodefly]

Ah yes, let's raise an entire generation of swishy little poofters.

You would deny the world its next generation of theater critics and Liza Menelli fans? Plus, from the article, it sounds like these kids will be able to solicit buttsex in at least 2 different languages ... /s

Besides, if "professional educators" weren't busy creating the next generation of mind-numbed socialist drones, who would be?

[MamaTexan]

I wonder how I managed to reach 34

LoL! Me too! (except it's 44:)

War was always the favorite game of our neighborhood.

Making wooden guns that shot strips of inner tubes, grenades of HUGE Texas pine cones......and taking headers into bar ditches to see who could 'die' the most realistically!

(sigh)

Those were the days.

[Travis McGee]

The trend lines are depressing. But history often lurches.

[SpookBrat]

Homeschool bump.....as I hear my son making machine gun sound effects in the back ground.

Our sons are "taught" to feel guilty and ashamed for their love of weaponry. You couldn't pry my son's guns from his hands for anything. If you were successful (after an intense struggle), he would just go out into the woods, find a gun looking stick and make another one. He came out of the womb making things into weapons. I think his first words were "Pow, pow..".

[Atlantic Friend]

Ah, yes, the pine cones. Nature's hand grenades ! lol. We also drew M-16 silhouettes on planks we had scooped up somewhere, and then we sawed the planks so we could have our own assault rifles...

Whew, looks like France and Texas just MISSED mass extinction when we were kids, no ? lol

[CJ Wolf]

"violated Federal Law." Is that really federal law?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONES ACT OF 1990.
<< 18 USCA § 921 NOTE >>
(a) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990".
(b) PROHIBITIONS AGAINST POSSESSION OR DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM IN A SCHOOL ZONE.--
<< 18 USCA § 922 >>
(1) IN GENERAL.--Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
"(q)(1)(A) It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that the
individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.
"(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to the possession of a firearm--
"(i) on private property not part of school grounds;
"(ii) if the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do so by the State in which the school one is located or a political subdivision of the State, and the law of the State or political subdivision requires that, before an individual obtain such a license, the law enforcement
authorities of the State or political subdivision verify that the individual is qualified under law to receive the license;
"(iii) which is--
"(I) not loaded; and
"(II) in a locked container, or a locked firearms rack which is on a motor vehicle;
"(iv) by an individual for use in a program approved by a school in the school zone;
"(v) by an individual in accordance with a contract entered into between a school in the school zone and the individual or an employer of the individual;
"(vi) by a law enforcement officer acting in his or her official capacity; or
"(vii) that is unloaded and is possessed by an individual while traversing school premises for the purpose of gaining access to public or private lands open to hunting, if the entry on school premises is authorized by school authorities.
"(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), it shall be unlawful for any person, knowingly or
with reckless disregard for the safety of another, to discharge or attempt to discharge a firearm at a
place that the person knows is a school zone.
"(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to the discharge of a firearm--
"(i) on private property not part of school grounds;
"(ii) as part of a program approved by a school in the school zone, by an individual who is participating in the program;
"(iii) by an individual in accordance with a contract entered into between a (Publication page references are not available for this document.) school in a school zone and the individual or an employer of the individual; or
"(iv) by a law enforcement officer acting in his or her official capacity.
"(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as preempting or preventing a State or local government from enacting a statute establishing gun-free school zones as provided in this subsection.".
<< 18 USCA § 921 >>
(2) DEFINITIONS.--Section 921(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following new paragraphs:
"(25) The term 'school zone' means--
"(A) in, or on the grounds of, a public, parochial or private school; or
"(B) within a distance of 1,000 feet from the grounds of a public, parochial or private school.
"(26) The term 'school' means a school which provides elementary or secondary education, as determined under State law.
"(27) The term 'motor vehicle' has the meaning given such term in section 10102 of title 49, United States Code.".
<< 18 USCA § 924 >>
(3) PENALTY.--Section 924(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end thereof the following
new paragraph:
"(4) Whoever violates section 922(q) shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term of imprisonment imposed under this paragraph shall not run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed under any other provision of law. Except for the authorization of a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years made in this paragraph, for the purpose of any other law a violation of section 922(q) shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor.".
<< 18 USCA §§ 921 NOTE, 922 nt, 924 nt >>
(4) EFFECTIVE DATE.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to conduct engaged in after the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
<< 18 USCA § 922 NOTE >>
(5) GUN-FREE ZONE SIGNS.--Federal, State, and local authorities are encouraged to cause signs to be posted around school zones giving warning of prohibition of the possession of firearms in a school zone.



Technically this school did not violate the statute since they were toys and not "firearms", but many kids have been suspended or otherwise punished for toy guns, using their fingers as guns, and in one horribly violent case, using a chicken finger as a gun. (Luckily it didn't have "teacher killer" barbeque sauce on it, or it would have been an "assault chicken finger".)

The fact that the zero-tolerance groups cannot read or comprehend the laws should not allow them to get away with encouraging kids to bring toy "firearms" to school. After all, someone might have felt "threatened" or "offended", and that's much worse than anything in a public school (unless you are a Christian, then you are the threat and offense).

[river rat]

Government schools, under the control of the lunatic left - have already destroyed large segments of a couple of generations..

Until the educrates are held to a stringent set of "standards" and prevented from teaching their prejudices and perversions ---- parents should really consider private schools or home schooling..


Beyond that, simply consider the unarmed/untrained households as larders and warehouses -- when the SHTF.

Darwin in practice -- selective survival behavior and conduct being demonstrated.

Semper Fi

[MamaTexan]

France and Texas just MISSED mass extinction when we were kids, no ?

ROFL! I think your right!

The earlier FReeper remarks about the 'wussification' of our children is correct as well.

Playing as a child meant I was constantly bumped, bruised and bleeding.

We always just "Sucked it up" and went on.

Now children are taught by the schools not only to fear pain, but to fear the objects that can cause pain as well.

( Checked out your home page...and now I have Coke on my keyboard :)

[Squantos]

Why has'nt some one filed charges and lawsuits on the teachers and school district that allowed this ? THEY set the standard that no guns are allowed , toy, drawings on paper, fake, real or implied in material reality verbal and non verbal gestures or even photographs and gun rag magazines ?

Yet.....THEY........break their own rule !

Locals need to stand up to these POS turdburgler socialist when they don't practice that which they force on others. Make em swim in their own pool of shit'n shineola for a while !

DAMN !

[.38sw]

I nearly choked on my Diet Coke and sprayed the monitor (key word here is "nearly") when I read your tagline.

How does the *whatever_list thing work? I've been here long enough that I should know, but I must admit to being derelict in my duty to pay attention to some things.

[Squantos]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/involved?group=152

Cut 'n paste that URL into a link favorite in yer browser and rename it BANG is what I do ....... It'll auto refresh every time !

Stay safe and glad ya like the tag line .....:o)

[.38sw]

Thanks!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

But what about destroying the evidence of all those toy gun crimes?

[hattend]

I would think the first thing they should do in Kindergarten is immerse the spanish kids in English.

"Armas No" my sweet patooti

[FourPeas]

bump for later reading

[mrs tiggywinkle]

My daughter bought an archery set last year. Now *all* the neighborhood urchins have one...target practice in the Tiggywinkle yard. There are rules though...those things can be dangerous! :o)

[SpookBrat]

I'm dying for one of those, but I doubt we could play with them in our yard. I'll have to see. We were trying to talk Jo into going to camp with his sister this summer and what finally convinced him was the archery. LOL Not even a trip to Disney would convince him, but when he found out about the archery....well, now, that's a whole different ball game.

(They go to Disney one day).