Now a 5th grader in Philly is suspended

[Dave_L]

When I was a kid, my dad made me fake TNT to use while playing army. PVC pipe painted red, black electrical tape on the ends.

[XC700116]

It is a complete lack of common sense. Political correctness run amuck.

The more of this stuff I see the more I don't believe this^^^

Educators trying to demonize anything to do with guns.. Kids will grow up thinking guns are evil and bad..

...old story about a monkey getting hit cold water when he goes to the top of the stairs... he teaches other monkeys to not go up the stairs.. when he dies no one goes up the stairs ---- and no one knows why.

And in turn believe this ^^^

[DavieD55]

I remember way back when I was a young child we would play army on the playground- we even grabbed sticks to use as rifles. But that was then, this is now... now we would have been arrested and charged and then expelled. Shame.

Yep. Then they label those kids as nutjobs then start doling out prescription medication so they can deal with their so called violent tendencies.

[Ronin13]

When I was a kid, my dad made me fake TNT to use while playing army. PVC pipe painted red, black electrical tape on the ends.

We did the same- except we didn't do TNT, we made fake C-4 out of a block of wood painted gray, and duct taped a broken Casio watch onto it and some fake wires from the watch to the wood...

[DavieD55]

Educators trying to demonize anything to do with guns.. Kids will grow up thinking guns are evil and bad..

...old story about a monkey getting hit cold water when he goes to the top of the stairs... he teaches other monkeys to not go up the stairs.. when he dies no one goes up the stairs ---- and no one knows why.

And in turn believe this ^^^

I agree.

[Inconel710]

This is a great example of why liberals want to enact gun control. They can't stop themselves from yelling at a child over a piece of paper that looks like a gun or a Hello Kitty Bubble gun, so they know in their hearts that they'd probably shoot someone if they had a gun. And if they can't trust themselves with a gun, they can't trust ANYBODY with a gun.

[hatidua]

Political correctness run amuck.

-and then some. It's not limited to elementary schools either, it's on every single web forum I've ever visited.

[hatidua]

Kids will grow up thinking guns are evil and bad.

They already do. I've met full-grown adult 'men' from the Northeast (MA/CT/NY/RI/Etc) that nearly went into panic mode when they saw a pistol in a storage hatch on my boat in Florida. From their reaction, you'd have thought they noticed a lit fuse approaching a stick of dynamite.

The agenda to demonize firearms is working very well. Each successive generation gets more neutered. I realize this forum might not be representational of the country on the whole, but if you polled 100 grade school aged boys, how many would have a bb-gun now compared to 30 years ago?

Shooting sports will die by attrition even if no new laws were enacted.

[DavieD55]

If/When i have kids i will not be enrolling them into public school. Public schools are turning into nothing more than social welfare centers. Seems as though the good public schools are becoming too few are far between.

[Ghosty]

-and then some. It's not limited to elementary schools either, it's on every single web forum I've ever visited.

Every single one? Which ones exactly? I've found most of the ones I'm on are mostly Libertarian/Conservative minded and not anal about political correctness within reason. Granted most are various car, truck, or motorcycle related.