There oughta be a law! That’s the familiar cry of almost every aggrieved and aggravated citizen since, well, Rome. That said, there’s something particularly galling about a kid who’s kicked out of school because he ate his Pop-Tart the wrong way. Or his slice of pie in an unapproved manner. As a result, in a state that exhibits precious little common sense about gun laws, we’re now treated to the delicious irony of Maryland state senator J.B. Jennings trying to legislate against the knee-jerk edicts of mindless automatons on the public payroll. In response to the case of the Pop-Tart terrorist, he’s penned the Reasonable School Discipline Act of 2013 . . .
As washingtonpost.com is reporting,
The measure would prevent principals from suspending or expelling students who make “a hand shape or gesture resembling a gun” or bring to school “any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose.”
So it’s come to this. Because government schools are run by people who can’t (or refuse to) distinguish between real threats to their students’ safety and the harmless actions of normal children acting like – er – children, lawmakers now find it necessary to do what they do best: enact more laws.
And you can blame people like Principal Sandy Blondell, the Park Elementary School disciplinarian who laid down the law when a 7-year-old in her charge said something dangerous like “bang, bang” while holding his ballistically bitten toaster pastry.
As you’ll read all too often in the comments section around here, “you can’t fix stupid.” Now, thanks to zero tolerance administrators who make it through their days wholly unencumbered by the thought process, maybe Maryland will be able to make it illegal.
Instead of “The measure would prevent principals from suspending or expelling students who make “a hand shape or gesture resembling a gun” or bring to school “any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose.”
We need to rid society of the problem, not just the symptoms. The bill should read: “The measure would require firing principals who attempt to suspend or expel students who make “a hand shape or gesture resembling a gun” or bring to school “any other object that resembles a gun, but serves another purpose.”
YES! Start with the principals (better yet, Superintendents of Schools), AND WORK YOUR WAY DOWN, until the system is rid of these HYSTERIA-RIDDEN PARAKEETS in the school system!!!
The sooner the better. I have yet to figure out why these school teachers and admins so firmly believe that finger guns, pictures of guns, and “bang bang” play is so harmful to kids that it cannot be tolerated in any form. This is where the prejudice against guns starts–but it doesn’t have any discernable effect, does it? Are there any studies at all tht support this nonsense? Brawling and knife fights in the school yard are one thing, but chase games? Why?
Because COMPETITION HURTS FEELINGS. And that HURT HURTS. Something like that. It’s phony egalitarianism. Pretend we’re all equal, until it gets too obvious that not all kids are on the same level of development.
What do they do then? Tweak the grading system. RINSE. REPEAT.
Lets see if I can reply, my computer went crazy last time, took me about 20 minutes to be able to load up the page again and my post disapeared, weird.
3rd time maybe the charm?
In answer to your question, after things went wild the end of December I started working on the framework for organizing links to all 3,077 counties and their respective states at http://uslibertyweb.org
After that I set up a forum with board for all 50 states at
http://uslibertyweb.us/forum
and after facebook suspended me last month I set up a basic social network at
http://LibertyTree.TheBlood of Tyrants.com
There are a lot of modules in the social platform that can be added that gives it many more options than facebook and I think it lends itself better to networking and organizing, there is even a module that allows crowdsourcing projects, so say you have a County project in New Mexico that sounds neat they could set it up, crowdsource it where folks could even drop a dollar donation from paypal, after their project is done say the details and feedback are uploaded and could be duplicated by others.
I was on the State MADD board for a few years, and involved in the GENWEB Project, these are a couple of models for action and organizing volunteers and resources that work well and can be used in our fight as well
Thing is it takes people to get involved and can do a little webwork. For me the idea of having even a half dozen people working on projects in their county holds a lot of potential, for example in addition to everything else can you imagine having people on the ground that can show up when something happens like Sandy Hook to video the response and post it all ?
If something happens that is noteworthy to report it, even acts of self protection, local politics, lots of possibilities I think.
Is there room for a (little?) PSU logo on your shirt?
You clear it with the IP guys at PSU and I’d be all about that.
Congrats again Nick! BTW, still waiting on a review of that FNH shotgun you’ll be using for 3 gun.
I have one mounted on my nightstand 9mm, which also has a front night sight too. I believe it is still more efficient than a flashlight in my support hand. I use the firearm mounted light as/if necessary, in tactical mode, for identification, but have the night sight for aiming.
I think it is really great that you get to do this. I don’t compete but will be looking forward to your experience on the team and expecting great results as you grow in this opportunity. Can’t wait.
Damn, Now NY’ers have to run their own lives, at least on this matter. daddy bloomberg can hopefully piss up a rope on all his wacked out wants, Randy
Every one go out and drink a large Pepsi and go haha at Bloomburg.
We expect schools to teach critical thinking, but then pass educational policies from on high that make any exercise of the same against the rules. I can’t blame the principal here, since I’ve been in the system and know how many rules teachers and administrators operate under. Regarding this situation, this is one small problem struggling to get out from among a host of much bigger problems.
All he needs to add is a clause that states that: any teacher or
principal violating this law will be suspended pending
investigation and meet before an independent review board to
have their teaching certificates examined.
Large capacity sodas must be banned. Their sole purpose is to make people obese.
The background music is the best part. I couldn’t resist the urge to start dancing.
Great story.
I can’t believe that no one has thought that this was planned. I’m assuming it’s a 1911 bought but here’s my theory. Think about it, he goes in to buy an eight round capacity handgun(because that ‘s an acceptable amount of rounds) and buys an AR hoping that it gets reported by the media outlets. He can then state that he’s keeping the .45, cause he’s a guy guy after all, and plans on surrendering the AR because there is no need for that type of firearm. It’s a total ploy to make people think he’s a gun guy that thinks there are reasonable restrictions that need to be made without violating the 2nd amendment. It’s an attempt to appease the moderate gun owners, imo. Trevor~