Posted on 06/17/2013 6:03:27 PM PDT by grundle
Perhaps a suddenly firearm-friendly President Obama can put in a good word for Jared Marcum. In April, Marcum, an eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W. Va., was arrested when he refused to take off his NRA t-shirt. The New York Daily News reports:
The clothing kerfuffle began when Marcum wore a shirt bearing the NRAs logo and a hunting rifle. As he stood in line in the cafeteria, a teacher ordered him to either change shirts or turn it inside out.
Marcum declined and was sent to the office, where an officer was dispatched after he again refused to comply with the schools request.
Cops arrested him and charged him with disrupting the educational process and obstructing an officer.
Late last week Marcum appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer, reports Fox News. If convicted, he could face up to a $500 fine or a year in prison. He will be back in front of the judge on July 11 if his attorney cannot get the charge dismissed before then.
One can understand this sort of silliness across the border in Maryland (as we have chronicled here and here) but in West Virginia? This is, after all, the state whose senators campaign ad featured him shooting Obamas cap-and-trade bill. Ah, those were the days.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
If he had worn a dress to school the media would have breathlessly labeled him as a “brave” young woman ... err man.
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