Is this necessary to prevent gun violence or is this too uptight?

[Howson]

I go back and forth as I remember this happening in the 1990's once.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013...paper-gun/

A South Philadelphia fifth-grader was searched and scolded in front of her class after trying to throw away a folded piece of paper shaped like a gun.

Melody Valentin told Fox 29 Tuesday that she pulled out a paper gun last week that was made by her grandfather the day before. She went to throw it away, but a boy saw it and called the administrators.

Melody’s mother, Dianna Kelly, said her daughter’s classmates at D. Newlin Fell School had taunted her child, calling her a “murderer.”

Fox 29 reports the young girl was berated in front of the class, threatened with the police being called and searched while the other children watched.

Ms. Kelly said her daughter has since been suffering from nightmares.

“Why did he threaten my daughter?” Ms. Kelly asked during an interview with The Daily Mail. “Why did he stand over my daughter and tell her that he should call the cops on her? Why did he try to scare her?”

Officials at the School District of Philadelphia told Fox 29 they were investigating and could not issue a comment.

Tensions have been high since the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, Conn., with many instances since where students are punished for carrying objects or making gestures that are shaped like guns.

Just last week, a Pennsylvania girl was suspended from kindergarten after she told another girl she was going to shoot her with her Hello Kitty toy gun.

A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his school in Silver Spring, Md., on Jan. 3 for pointing his finger at another student and saying “pow.”


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[Colonel Kurtz]

Overboard.

Instead of teaching guns are bad, we should teach criminals are bad and it's okay to kill them with guns.

[coffee beanz]

"Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out … People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically right. Guns ended that, and a social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work." – L. Neil Smith

[Cantankerous]

Lol, you should call the principal. You seem really upset about what happened in some kindergarten class. Maybe you should run for philidilphia school board and straighten things out during naptime.

I heard they also use hand sanitizer made in red china.

[Thedude27]

Thats the equivalent to dousing your house in gasoline and setting it on fire because you saw a spider and you have arachnophobia.

ppl that irrational should not be allowed within 50ft of children let alone being responsible for their education.

[Leo]

Wish people would just Point fingers. Jeez

[Jakob]

G'bye freedom of speech

[Heretic]

Zero tolerance is going just a little bit overboard! They even punish victims of bullying for finally standing up for themselves!

[Never Again]

Liberal district, policies, schools, principals, and teachers for you.

[anonymous]

Going overboard, though the child should be corrected