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You are engaging in the logical fallacy of denying the correlative. Robbing a Bank with a gun or a banana is irrelevant to the actual crime.

The case in question is not related to your statement. The teacher used questionable methods to scare his students for whatever reason (most likely a valid one). The kids were never in any physical danger. Federal law prohibits him with being charged for firearms since federal law says that what he used cannot be described as one.

While I don’t agree with his methods, how the teacher is reprimanded is the choice of the school district...not by public opinion. The police have no authority here since no laws were broken. Nor is jail time fitting of his actions since no crime was committed.

Next I suppose you will be calling the police on your neighborhood kids for playing cops and robbers while firing cap guns or airsoft weapons.

Nope, not the same with kids, they are playing with known toys. A black powder pistol is not considered a firearm either by the ATF, but it will kill ya just as dead.Even if you put your hand in your coat pocket, pointed it at the teller and told her you had a gun when in fact you do not, will still get you and ARMED robbery charge. The crime is instilling the fear of a deadly weapon. Brandishing a firearm or a fake firearm pretending it is real, is the same thing. If you can't see that, I suppose you think it would be alright to pull out a fake knife and hold it to someones throat while telling them you are going to behead them. It is on the same level as communicating a threat, real or perceived.