2013 America (and Friends!) Gun Violence Thread No Plows Allowed!

[Nephlite]

Broke my heart on this one

http://news.yahoo.com/troubled-grand...225225357.html

[Nephlite]

Stupid double post is stupid.

[Melena]

Well, there goes my day. That was depressing as fuck.

[Tyrath]

Figured I'd drop this here instead of the grocery thread.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...0,161022.story

Park Elementary second-grader suspended for making pastry in shape of a gun

A second-grade student at an Anne Arundel County elementary school was suspended for two days Friday after school officials said he chewed a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun, an incident that has drawn widespread national media attention.

The school, Park Elementary in Brooklyn Park, sent a letter home to parents regarding the incident. The child's father, William "B.J." Welch, alerted local media to the incident, and Welch and his son Josh, 7, soon found themselves on CNN and Fox News, while conservative bloggers across the country opined on the matter.

The pastry "gun" was a rectangular, strawberry-filled bar, akin to a Pop-Tart, that the second-grader had tried to nibble into the shape of a mountain Friday morning, but then found it looked more like a gun, B.J. Welch said.

Welch said an assistant principal at Park Elementary School told him that his son pointed the pastry at a classmate — though the child maintains he pointed it at the ceiling.

"In my eyes, it's irrelevant; I don't care who he pointed it at," Welch said. "It was harmless. It was a Danish."

The suspension comes during a national conversation about gun control and school safety in the aftermath of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

Anne Arundel schools spokesman Bob Mosier said Monday the pastry in question was a breakfast bar that was "part of the schoolwide breakfast program that is served daily at Park Elementary." He declined to comment further.

The letter that the school sent home to parents encouraged them to remind their children "of the importance of making good choices."

"During breakfast this morning, one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class," said the letter, which also was posted on the schools' website. "While no physical threats were made and no one was harmed, the student had to be removed from the classroom."

The letter said the school system's student handbook outlines the system's code of conduct, as well as consequences students face when it is violated.

The letter said Anne Arundel County schools' procedures were followed "to address the student's actions and communicate with the student's family." It also said the school's counselor would be available this week to meet with students on the matter.

Welch said he asked the assistant principal if anyone had been scared by the pastry. Someone could have been, he said he was told.

The father said he had high regard for the school. He found the episode puzzling.

"I feel this is just a direct result of society feeling that guns are evil and guns are bad ... and if you make your pastry into a gun, you're going to be the next Columbine shooter," Welch said.

[Salodin]

Any legal recourse for the parents? Thats just silly.

[BaneTheBrawler]

if i were the parents i'd say it was a dick. no one gets suspended for drawing dicks

[Qalbert]

he pastry "gun" was a rectangular, strawberry-filled bar, akin to a Pop-Tart

Pop-Pop-Pop-Tarts

[Suvhater]

http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/...FguIcCOssJ.jpg

[archibaldcrane]

Looks like the state of Idaho to me.

[Esvedium]

http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/...FguIcCOssJ.jpg

DON'T POINT THAT AT ME YOU FUCKING TERRORIST!

[Rhinox]

Are people seriously outraged that a second grader was essentially slapped on the wrist? He wasn't expelled.

[Rhinox]

Not sure why there was a news article written about it other than to rile up the gun nut jobs.

[Salodin]

Not sure suspensions are a slap on the wrist, slippery slope, etc.

[kuronosan]

America: Prime example of paranoid fucking retards who sit back and do nothing while the real bad shit continues to happen so that they can complain about dumb shit.

[Eurell]

Why would this rile up gun nuts more than anyone else? Shit is fucking dumb. Thats why people are mad. I'd be pissed if my kid got suspended for eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun (on purpose or not).

[Rhinox]

Why would this rile up gun nuts more than anyone else? Shit is fucking dumb. Thats why people are mad. I'd be pissed if my kid got suspended for eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun (on purpose or not).

People Aren't mad.




Only wackos are mad at an incident that doesn't effect your child

[Rhinox]

I once got suspended for calling another kid a schmuck in 2nd grade despite them finding out I didn't actually know what it meant.


No news articles were written sadly.

[Rhinox]

Not sure suspensions are a slap on the wrist, slippery slope, etc.

2 day suspension in a nine month school year is borderline tyranny

[Eurell]

People Aren't mad.

Are people seriously outraged that a second grader was essentially slapped on the wrist?

Answering your own question or just not sure which way you wanna troll this yet?

I once got suspended for calling another kid a schmuck in 2nd grade despite them finding out I didn't actually know what it meant.


No news articles were written sadly.

Wow, you got in trouble for calling another kid a name. How is that relevant to the story about the kid getting in trouble for not actually breaking the rules?

[Rhinox]

Answering your own question or just not sure which way you wanna troll this yet?




Wow, you got in trouble for calling another kid a name. How is that relevant to the story about the kid getting in trouble for not actually breaking the rules?

Two things

1. The original context that you conveniently left out was that only gun nut jobs seem to be upset about this.


2. My anecdotal was there to show kids get suspended for lesser things. Doesn't make it right but crying over pointing a pop tart gun kid getting suspending is retarded.


If the parents were worth their salt they would use this as a teaching moment