Posted on 02/02/2011 5:07:09 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Andrew Mikel II admits it was a stupid thing to do. In December, bored and craving attention, the 14-year-old used a plastic tube to blow small plastic pellets at fellow students in Spotsylvania High School. In one lunch period, he scored three hits.
"They flinched. They looked annoyed," Mikel said.
The school district saw it as more than a childish prank. School officials expelled him for possession and use of a weapon, and they called a deputy sheriff to the scene, said Mikel and his father, Andrew Mikel Sr.
The younger Mikel, a freshman, said he was charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault. The case was first reported by the Web site WorldNetDaily.
Spotsylvania school officials declined to comment on the incident, citing student confidentiality rules. But documents that the school produced when Mikel's father filed a Freedom of Information Act request show internal division over the matter.
The federal Gun-Free Schools Act mandates that schools expel students who take weapons, including hand guns, explosive devices and projectile weapons, to school. E-mail traffic among school officials showed they ruled that Mikel's plastic tube, which was fashioned from a pen casing, met the definition of a projectile weapon because it was "used to intimidate, threaten or harm others."
School officials in some e-mails referred to the plastic casing as a "metal tube." The plastic pellets were called "B-Bs."
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35 y/o - self employed - have voted GOP my entire life.
No debt, never on UE, no criminal record, no abortions, never took a dime from the govt.
As for cops - I agree with you - I loathe most of them. There are a few good ones, but most are nothing more tan revenue agents for the govt and ripping us off.
Readin and writin an rithmatic
Taught to the tune of a hickory stick.
>Their war is to emasculate men and render them impotent.
I think they already have; do you notice that all the really ‘controversial’ conservative governors are women? I suspect that it is simply because men are not allowed to “oppose with manly firmness” anything at all.
My opinion of cops and public self-servants is based on knowing many of them growing up and knowing many now.
They are mini-madoffs with their demands on the average taxpayer.
Meanwhile, at a school district in Michigan, Sikh students are allowed to carry ceremonial daggers.
Go figure.
I used to make a compact slingshot out of re-shaped hanger-wire and rubber bands. Damn... that’d be seen as an assault weapon nowadays.
Please don’t tell me that I will be felt up by Big Sis. You have scared me enough. LOL
Don’t worry. When things go downhill enough to get womens’ attention to the point that they need a man to fix it, they’ll come crying to us. At that point they won’t mind us opposing them with manly firmness.
>Don’t worry. When things go downhill enough to get womens’ attention to the point that they need a man to fix it, they’ll come crying to us. At that point they won’t mind us opposing them with manly firmness.
Since we are, somewhat, on the topic of governance that “opposition” might require bloodshed. :/
This argument is frequently used against boomers (although I'm not certain that is your intent here) as though to tarnish us all for this dreck piece of legislation. The problem that most younger generations don't seem to understand is that when Johnson pushed his Great Society initiative, the oldest boomers were just beginning to reach voting age. We aren't responsible for what has turned into another failed liberal agenda item, but we are often accused of being the reason for its passage.
For example, when Johnson passed the Great Society initiative, I was stll in high school, and I am among the older crop of boomers!! Therein, lies much of the problem. I understand that perception is reality and that the perception of boomers is that we, personally, did a lot of things that were already in place when we reached voting age. We weren't any more perfect than any other generation, but we're hadly responsible for all the social ills of which we are accused.
BTW, I appreciate the Churchill quote. I'm a strong admirer of the man and am grateful that I was living when he was still alive and was able to see the British be able to appreciate him as much as we did. When WWII ended, he wasn't among their most favorite people and they couldn't wait to get rid of him as PM. By the 60s, before he passed away, they came to appreciate him for the brilliant statesman that he was.
Somebody should have just walked back and smacked the moron upside the head and called it even.
Imagine a Red Dawn happening in America these days...
The little darlings would be tweeting for help as they are let into re-education camps.
I remember shooting paper wads from rubber bands during study hall.
If I had done this as a 14 year old in the 1980s, I would have been sent to coach’s office for a date with “The Paddle”. It would have been over in less than 10 seconds. The pain would have subsided in less than 10 minutes.
America has dropped off the deep end.
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