Posted July 10, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Townhall Media/Beth Baumann

Over the years, I’ve made something of a hobby collecting idiotic cases of zero-tolerance policies being enforced in schools. While no one wants students carrying guns in schools, these policies often go beyond that fact and impact things like firearms depicted on shirts and many other places.

Couple that with things like the stigmatization of gun owners, and schools become a recipe for disaster.

Perhaps the latest example shows how idiotic all of this can be.

A Maryland eighth grader was suspended for three weeks and did not get to graduate with his class in June. This was his punishment for appearing in the background of a friend’s video in which said friend held a disabled airsoft gun. The eighth grader also posed for a photo with the friend, who held him in a headlock with the fake gun pointing at his head. The picture was shared with 13 other friends on Snapchat.

Are you silently giving thanks that social media didn’t exist when you were a middle schooler? Me too. The 14-year-old boy later admitted he was trying to look like a “badass.”

On Monday his dad—David Bernstein, a nonprofit director—wrote a piece about the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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