[Second Amendment First]

Thank God I attended school in the 50's and 60's instead of today, or they would have have me in prison now. I remember using straws from the cafeteria to shoot spit balls at other students, as well as teachers. Study halls were the worst because I was so bored. I'd memorize the assignments in a few minutes and spend the rest of the hour goofing off.

[stayathomemom]

Half the kids from my era would have criminal records for shooting spit wads through Bic pens.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

You got that right! We would be locked up as terrorists today.

[Matt Hatter]

Heavy rubber band as a crossbow—index finger and thumb, tightly folded piece of notebook paper. Now that was a weapon. They would call the FBI on me today; it’s an IED!

[bert]

The correct term is Pea Shooter . The plastic spheres are ideal for a pea shooter but maybe too small for best use in a typical soda straw hence the use of a smaller diameter pen tube.

I’ll be forced to do a test. My lawn is littered with the small green spheres fire by “the boys” who seem to have semiautomatic repeaters with which they have wars.

[macquire]

The “air conditioning” in our old school study hall was the huge windows without screens on them that they would open up on warm days. The study hall had two floors of classes directly below it. I can’t tell you how many times bored kids would light a firecracker and throw it out the window when the teacher on duty wasn’t looking to buzz things up a bit.

I would imagine that would be a life sentence today....

[Venturer]

My whole class would be in jail.
We were especially criminal as we threw erasers, made spitballs, rolled water filled rubbers down the hall, why we even had snowball fights when it snowed.We were even known to sneak a smoke behind the gym.It wasn’t too unusual to hear a firecracker go off down the hall.

Three counts of misdemeanor assault. Give me a break, Any good principla would have solved this without it leaving the school with a phone call to Mom and dad.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s the Feds fomenting the whole problem (let me guess, it’s a string attached to Fed, meaning tax payer, funds) into a much bigger deal than it needed to be. Can’t paddle or spank egregiously misbehaving students, can’t even sit them in a corner with a dunce cap on.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Dear England, we are now thee.

[eartrumpet]

A few counties away from this story, I attended high school in the 70s. A teacher wanted to borrow a shotgun for deer season opener and a student brought him one in class the next day. We all had shotguns in our cars. And, there were no problems.

[JoeProBono]

[Jack Hydrazine]

"The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Enduring Freedom. The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq. The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadafi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora. The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11. I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against. This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?"
-former Governor Zell Miller at the 2004 Republican National Convention

Obviously the Leftists don't even want us using spitballs or plastic pellets. Their war is to emasculate men and render them impotent.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The Pea Shooter Scandal!

[bgill]

I remember using straws from the cafeteria to shoot spit balls at other students

Ha, that was my first thought as well. Back in the day it was nothing to park your truck in the school parking lot, leave the windows down, have a shotgun in the headache rack and ammo rolling around in the floorboard. You could also have a knife in your boot and a can of Skoal in your back pocket and no one would have ever thought to say a thing about it. This current PC bs is doing nothing but raising little wimps who are afraid of their shadows. How things have changed in such a short time. Imagine a Red Dawn happening in America these days...

[mountn man]

This board is monitored by TSA, FBI, Homeland Security and The Fun Police.

You have all admited to heinous crimes against humanity, and are now placed on terrorist watch list. It matters not the you broke laws ex post facto, in the days of pc it is most important to label all criminals.

[DustyMoment]

Never forget that the administrators responsible for these idiotic policies ALL make six figures!!

I wish that I could be that stupid and be paid that well!!

(And we wonder why Johnny can’t read?? He was expelled for being a kid!)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He'd be in jail for life if used the Spit Wad Gatling Gun...

[Hotmetal]

Right there with sneaking into class ahead of everyone else and putting tacks in everybody elses seats, including the teachers. This would get you multiple life sentences now.

[tiki]

OMG, this is ridiculous!

[hfr]

Headline should read: D*ckwads Arrest Paperwads

[wintertime]

!!!!!WARNING!!!!!

Parents if you send you kid to your collectivist government schools you kid has a serious chance of being a felon for life!

( Is the free babysitting worth it?)