The littlest perps
Who defends this foolish lack of proportion? The American Association of School Administrators. Its executive director, Dan Domenech, told USA Today: “Parents have to be aware that talking about guns or using your fingers to point like a gun is no longer tolerable or prudent.” Why, pray tell? School shooters tend to be disturbed young men. In no case has a shooter ever been an adorable five-year-old child.
In the grips of a strange mania, school administrators believe that any symbolic representation of a gun, no matter how innocent, is all but indistinguishable from a real gun. This is not a mistake that gun owners make. I have never known the National Rifle Association magazine to feature an article on how to form your finger into the shape of a firearm. The finger gun doesn’t do much for the average sportsman. It can’t bring down a deer, and doesn’t exactly light up the gun range.
No matter. We don’t have common sense; we have rules. We don’t have judgment; we have bureaucratic procedure. Too often, our grown-ups are the ones desperately in need of adult supervision.
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What planet is this moron from!?
OldEnglish on March 12, 2013 at 10:17 PM
I took a toy Uzi to school for show/tell once, and was using an old GSA pocket knife as my key chain in high school. Amazingly enough-I haven’t become a killer. ///
annoyinglittletwerp on March 12, 2013 at 10:20 PM
It’s a real abuse of power by these aholes. Parents of the students need to step up. Or, didn’t one state pass a law recently saying you can’t pull this crap?
Blake on March 12, 2013 at 10:24 PM
The thought police are here and they’re going for the children, sickos.
Fallon on March 12, 2013 at 10:27 PM
What’s no longer tolerable or prudent is the public school system. Provide vouchers for all children so parents can choose what schools their children attend.
Dusty on March 12, 2013 at 10:54 PM
The administrators and teachers who are so deluded that they can’t tell the difference between a psycho who’ll shoot up a school and a 5 year old with a Pop-Tart should be locked up where they can be safely treated for their insanity. They obviously should not be allowed to be around children.
theCork on March 12, 2013 at 11:41 PM
Awww. Who’s my adorable five year old psycho killer? Yes you are! I’ve got cookies in the oven that have your name all over them, little mister. Why, yes they are shaped like yummy AR-15s. Just for you, yes! Would you like some milk in your Panda-with-Glock-shaped sippy cup?
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on March 12, 2013 at 11:42 PM
Schadenfreude on March 12, 2013 at 11:56 PM
Rich, always thought you were a decent enough fellow. Unfortunately, you and the Tucker Carlsons, Bushes, Romneys etc. were always too marshmellow to see this shit coming. You could have made a fuss way earlier about PC, war on women, etc. and so many other issues but did not.
arnold ziffel on March 13, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In other news, school administrators found to be dumb as a box of rocks.
Talking about guns is not prudent? Orwell was about 29 years late. How I hate these people and their stupidity!
AZfederalist on March 13, 2013 at 12:44 AM
Oh, the thought police have been in our schools for quite a while. One of the big reasons why a clown like Obama got elected. “The hand that rocks the cradle…”
NavyMustang on March 13, 2013 at 6:55 AM
I keep posting it. AMC runs three hours of reruns of The Rifleman on Saturday mornings. Those three hours should be required viewing for all boys ages four to ten.
BuckeyeSam on March 13, 2013 at 7:19 AM
Give these administrators a fake paycheck. They’ll figure out the difference between real and fake quick enough.
Flange on March 13, 2013 at 7:34 AM
ROTFLMAO… Wanna bet?
SWalker on March 13, 2013 at 7:47 AM
It’s like I said in a similar thread yesterday.
A lot comes down to spinelessness on the part of the educators.
Billy decides to shove innocent little Johnny, the principal goes to discipline Billy, only to get reamed a new one by Billy’s overbearing mother and bully father.
The principal decides it’s simply not worth the aggravation to single out bullies for their rotten behavior. It’s simply too much hassle to explain to Billy’s idiot parents why he got in trouble for pulling a knife on Johnny, but Johnny gets off Scot free for bringing in his Boy Scout knife for show-and-tell.
It’s too much to ask for the principal to stand up, grow a set, and tell Billy’s parents that he’s a maladjusted little creep and that’s why he gets in trouble, and that Johnny is a generally well-behaved kid, which is why he doesn’t get in trouble. The principal either doesn’t have the guts or doesn’t have the sense to call bad behavior bad and good behavior good.
So we can’t have any mention of guns in any context, because we don’t want to get into the sticky situation of defending the notion that sometimes the show of force or the use of force is justified, or that there are perfectly innocent uses for firearms. We don’t want kids thinking in terms of “good guys” versus “bad guys” because that’s a moral distinction, and we wouldn’t want to impose any sort of moral standard on anyone, now would we?
So the Zero-Tolerance policy is born. It allows the educators to wash their hands of any responsibility.
CurtZHP on March 13, 2013 at 8:37 AM
But isn’t that what boys do? Point their fingers and say “bang, bang”? Girls certainly don’t do that. Should all our children act like girls now? The cap gun was one of my favorite toys as a kid. You had the continuous caps, though after 5 or 6 sometimes they’d get gummed up, and you have to jigger them around to fix it. And then you had the single shots. I vaguely remember doubling up two single shot caps for a louder sound.
*pointing finger* “Bang, bang!”
Paul-Cincy on March 13, 2013 at 9:19 AM
I think a bunch of parents should show up with fingers locked and loaded and let the school admins have it.
Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew!
Blake on March 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM
When you outlaw shooting with your finger, only outlaws will shoot with their fingers.
Paul-Cincy on March 13, 2013 at 9:31 AM
Because that would be judging, and we can’t have any of that! It’s why they have absolutely no judgment!
According to many, yes. It’s the only way to make things “fair”.
GWB on March 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM