Posted on 10/24/2019 12:09:33 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Colorado School Suspends 17-Year-Old After She Posted a Non-Threatening Gun Photo With Her Older Brother
She didn't break the law or threaten anybody, but her school still panicked.
A tongue-in-cheek post from a Colorado teen about a trip to a shooting range got her suspended from high school.
On Oct. 11, Endeavor Academy, a public school in Centennial, Colo., suspended 17-year-old senior Alexandria Keyes for five days after she posted a picture of herself and her older brother on the social media app Snapchat. The two are shown holding guns and the photo is captioned, "Me and my legal guardian are going to the gun range to practice gun safety and responsible gun ownership while getting better so we can protect ourselves while also using the First Amendment to practice our Second Amendment."
The picture in question depicts Alexandria and her older brother, an Army veteran, wearing shemaghs (scarves popular in Middle Eastern cultures that are also used by some members of the military) posing in front of a Confederate flag and flipping off the camera while holding guns. In a statement to The Gun Writer, Kelley Moyer, Alexandria's mother, said that the shemagh her daughter wore was a gift from her brother.
Alexandria tells Reason that she never anticipated being suspended for taking the picture.
"Guns are huge in my family, they're normal to us," Alexandria said. It was a big surprise to her and her mother when police showed up at their house to investigate her as a potential threat.
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Its a bloody photograph people. Nothing illegal about it - at all.
Sue the school. I swear even freepers clutch their pearls these days.
It is refreshing to young people acting like real Americans... Only a snowflake clown would find it questionable...
I think we should suspend freedom of speech for all those who misuse our apostrophe’s
And if they turned around and shot up the school, would you still feel the same way about the photo?
Top photo is pretty funny. They’re obviously trying to cram as many lib pokes in one picture as they can.
she was flipping off everyone with a gun in her hand...
she was suspended for not being too bright.
If I were that family I’d hire the biggest baddest MF attorney and sue them all the way to the Supreme Court. Even if I had to mortgage the house. This is beyond stupid for a school to treat an American citizen like this. I hope one of the gun organizations step in to help.
Very stupid thing to do on their part, they do gun owners a disfavor. Frankly, anyone that does that in this day and age is a little unstable. Don’t feel sorry for them at all.
Colofornia
Her brother is a veteran, probably picked them up overseas... I have some prayer rugs laying around cause I think they are kinda pretty looking, not cause I’m a muslim.
“And if they turned around and shot up the school...”
Was that their intention? You seem to be able to tell the future...please tell us.
Good kids.
What was the intention of every other idiot that posted pictures like this to social media, and then shot up a school or elsewhere?
My question stands.
You should change your tampon. I think you have toxic shock.
“Colorado is nothing more than California Lite.”
It’s not Kali Lite anymore. The State is racing to beat Kali.
Just curious, since gangs use guns daily in the U.S., are kids suspended from school for flashing gang signs? Or is that perfectly A-OK in public schools?
If white kids want a future, they better all get this way. Fast!
This first picture is simply asking for trouble. No surprise the school acted.
Look at the photo. With the masks and flag in the background? It was stupid of them to post that. In today’s climate, had the school not looked into this it would have been much worse. I don’t like it. It was probably innocent, but there’s been too many instances where post like this were ignored and later regretted. The kids should have known better.
I don’t know how they even got the picture.
I thought Snapchat disappears after 5 seconds.
People were sending tons of nude pics since they would go away...
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