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Posted on 08/22/2007 12:48:50 PM PDT by redstates4ever
Chandler school officials have suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching a picture that resembled a gun, saying it posed a threat to classmates.
But parents of the Payne Junior High School student said the drawing was a harmless doodle of a fake laser, and school officials overreacted.
"I just can't believe that there wasn't another way to resolve this," said Paula Mosteller, the boy's mother. "He's so upset. The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good."
The Mostellers said the drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries, or target any human. They said it was just a drawing that resembled a gun.
But Payne Junior High administrators thought the sketch was enough of a threat and gave the boy a five-day suspension, later reduced to three days.
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I thought the headline read: School suspends boy for ketchup gun. So I logged on hoping to find some blueprints. Alas. BTW - the suspension is ridiculous - just simple, ‘You must obey,’ dogma from the public schools.
Beautiful.
The 1860 is one of my favorite firearms. It’s that graceful curve under the barrel that does it instead of the blocked off angle cut of the 1860. For shooters, I prefer the Remingtons but they don’t feel right. The grips are too short.
Some years ago, a company sold non-firing replicas of famous guns. They even put in the scratches and left out the missing screws of the original. I don’t know if they ever made one of Earp’s gun.
I wish I could display my toys but in my neighborhood, gun safes are a better choice. One of these days, I’ll add my favorites to my porfile page.
Most of my questions are answered by two books. The Flayderman’s Guide to Antique Firearms and Cartridges of the World.
Oops. Blocked off cut of the 1851. Sorry.
That’s a gun?
It looks like a building, with a sidewalk and a small garden.
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Back at you. You have a cute kid!
You and me, both. At 45, we shouldn’t feel out of touch.
I think the world is losing touch with reality.
what I find weird is that they let that college student write threatening stories at Virginia University, yet a picture of a gun is a bigger threat.
/kidding
Heck, I drew full battlefields --I was especially fond of doing D-day. Tanks, battleships, soldiers, bombers... the whole 9 yards. I'd turn in tests papers with pictures of jets bombing stuff drawn in the margins.
Good eye!
Earp was known to have a collection of .45 Peacemakers he'd hand out to people who would seek him out. He'd say it was 'the gun' he used at the OK Corral. They'd leave thinking he'd given them something special and of value. Uh, huh.
The understanding now is that there was, indeed, a Buntline Special that he and others were given by Ned Buntline. It wasn't the real long one that Stuart Lake (Earp's biographer) claimed it was (I want to say 12" barrel), but one with a shorter, 10" barrel. A number of historians now believe that was the gun he carried that day in his overcoat. In fact, Colt records apparently support this.
I only have the two originals and two replicas (the Hawkin and the Earp revolver). I have those because I'm a history buff when it comes to the Civil War and American West. I had a website up at one time giving the story of the Little Big Horn fight, but haven't had it up since going to Comcast. They don't help with pre-established sites.
As I mentioned in another post, all my other guns were given to a young friend of the family (except for a .357 I keep). When he and his family would visit, he'd always ask to see my historical arms. Knowing him, and the family (the dad's a police officer, SWAT member, and avid hunter) he was the natural choice when I decided that, not being able to hunt any longer, I had no need for my collection.
Oh my!
Imagine if the school district got a hold of some of the students Ipods.
Heads would be-a-rollin I tell ya!
The usual Zero Tolerance intolerence. Zero Tolerance negates the necessity for thinking. Easiest policy in the world.
We used pellet and BB guns when we played war. Wish paintballs had been around back in the day. Would have been less painful.
The solution is to permanently shut down the government school gestapo forever!
The Marxists and their useful idiots running the government schools are incapable of “getting the idea”. Their goal is to destroy our nation. Yes, it is that serious!
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They remind me of Nurse Ratchet in the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.
Remember it is part of the Marxist plan. The Marxists and their useful idiots NEED emasculated men if they are to succeed.
In my opinion, our government schools are the most important tool that the Marxists and their useful idiots have. Our government schools are more of a threat to a nation than ANY other problem or threat that our nation faces. We can survive a suit-case nuclear bomb, but we can not survive a new generation of Marxists voting in elections.
It is. It's called hoplophobia.
This is truly insane.
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