FL College Doubles Down On Suspending Student Due To Range Pic

By Tom Knighton

I’ve argued for a while that there’s a profound effort within our culture seeking to stigmatize gun ownership and any interest in firearms. To be honest, though, they already have. They’ve made it so anyone who posts a photograph of them with a firearm will be eviscerated by whatever institutions they can bring to bear.

That’s what happened to Dia’mon Dallas, a nursing student at First Coast Technical College. She shared a picture of her with a firearm at a range.

The picture wasn’t actually threatening. It wasn’t the kind of pic I personally approve of, really. Muzzle discipline is a thing, after all, but she at least kept the booger-hook off the trigger, which puts her leaps and bounds over some. There was no menace to the picture unless you were actively trying to find it.

So, they suspended her.

Now, it seems the college is doubling down on their actions.

In response to her First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit against the Florida college, which also makes state-law retaliation claims, FCTC is making a novel argument: Confusion justifies punishment.

The college said in a motion to dismiss that it couldn’t “divine” the purpose …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms