School Freaks Over Airsoft Gun In Student’s Possession

By Tom Knighton

Townhall Media/Beth Baumann

When a firearm-shaped object is pointed at you, it’s usually not a time for cool, rational thought. If you’re armed, you react. Because of that, you may end up defending yourself from someone who wasn’t really a threat, though you couldn’t know that at the time. The media will likely lambast you for shooting someone armed with a toy.

But in split seconds, you don’t have time to evaluate the “weapon” first.

Yet in the calm, acting like an airsoft gun is equivalent to a firearm isn’t just silly, it’s irresponsible. However, that’s what one Pennsylvania school did recently.

According to an email sent to parents today and a note on the school’s website, a student brought the airsoft gun, without ammunition, to school. After PSSA testing concluded, another student told a staff member they heard from others the airsoft gun had been brought onto school property.

Airsoft guns are used in a recreational sport similar to paintball, but they shoot tiny, plastic BBs or pellets.

Administrators searched the student and the student’s locker and found an airsoft pistol inside the student’s backpack in the locker.

“Although the airsoft pistol did not contain any ammunition, possession of a …Read the Rest

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