Teenage skeet shooter suspended for having ammo in car

azstarnet.com ^ | 10.29.2007 | Associated Press

[wardaddy]

so silly....we used to carry our guns in our car at school...to hunt before or after

the feminization of amerika continues

no guns kids...just soccer...and everyone gets a trophy and hugs

[festus]

At the beginning of the war of northern agression. What we see now is just the culmination.

[theBuckwheat]

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What, exactly, makes shotgun shells dangerous without a shotgun? Was she going to build a fire and toss them in??
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And in that case, if someone threw a wall-mounted fire extinguisher in that fire, when it exploded, it could be more dangerous than a shotgun shell that only catches on fire.

More to the point of the story, just what exactly is a “dangerous device”? We could walk into any school building and quickly see things that anyone could turn into such a thing. For instance, we could break a fluorescent light bulb and either contaminate someone with a hazardous substance, or we could cut them with the glass. We could also look in the custodian closet to see what drain cleaners where in easy reach. We could rip open the office copier and either suffocate someone with the toner or poison them with it.

The most dangerous thing in this whole story is not the shotgun shells, but the school officials who cannot understand that it is not the object that is dangerous, but the use of the object. Going even further with that idea, it was government officials who proved to be far more dangerous than shotgun shells to public safety and welfare by their policies and decisions in, for example, the deaths from hurricane Katrina.

[hiredhand]

Yeah...friggin idiots. Words simply escape me. I’ve been telling everybody for 7 years now NOT to willingly support the gov’t school systems.

[Still Thinking]

While that happens too, in this case she was late and parked in a lot where students are not allowed. The campus cop may have noticed this from a distance or he may do patrols for it. When he went up to the vehicle to leave a ticket for the parking thing he saw the ammo. For the life of me, I can’t imagine how they construe shotgun ammo as a “dangerous instrument” in the absence of a shotgun.

[MileHi]

Beyond stupid...

[Squantos]

Eaker ain’t even on this thread ............;O)

[Eaker]

Ahem.

Tapping toe.....

I heard that!

[tcostell]

I have about a case of shells in my car at all times and I live in NJ for god's sake. Go to the train station right now, and you'll find them in the back under the box of Shoot-n-C targets. I swear I'm thinking about going back to school for a law degree just to file suits against school systems when they try this crap.

I hope she makes the Olympic team. when she's being interviewed she can mention how even her school tried to prevent her from accomplishing her goal.

[MileHi]

hey, Hey, HEY! {:0)

[The Louiswu]

"When did common sense cease to exist?"

When zero tolerance stepped into the room.