“Imagine this scenario…. the principle used “common sense” and just told the kid to put away the toy, no formal report was issued. The following week the same kid brings a real gun to school and kills someone. Then everyone would blame the principal for not following protocol by overlooking the original infraction. …”

Oh boy! The hypothetical situation game! Let’s play!

* What if the principal had done nothing — then she wouldn’t have gotten her name in the paper and on TV!
* What it the kid now grows up to hate authority figures and becomes the next Unabomber?
* What if the principal saw the gun and just as she was about to do something about it, a giant asteroid hit the school at 45,000 miles per hour and vaporized everyone within 100 miles? Gee, then that kid would be in real trouble, eh?
* What if Spartacus had had a Piper Cub?

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# 22 Canuck:

” ‘It was only a toy gun’… famous last words before a cop shoots or tasers someone because they had a weapon that was meticulously crafted to be an EXACT copy of the real thing. #18 has it right… zero tolerance, because who knows what may happen next week.”

So I guess the principal should have hauled out her own .357 Magnum and blown the kid’s head “clean off,” as Dirty Harry put it? I don’t care if the gun was an exact replica of some real weapon — it was two inches long for Pete’s sake! I’m amazed the principal’s eyesight was good enough to make out what it was from a distance!

Remember, “he brought a 2-inch-long toy gun” You know those guns have 0.0625″” long bullets, that have mamed and killed or at least poked an eye out.

Plus, if you look closely at the picture, the gun has a silencer. Silencers are illegal. So you have this kid with a automatic rifle shooting 0.0625″ long bullets silently.

Doesn’t that just scare the crap out of you!!!!!

Can you image him having this in his pocket when he goes through Airport Security?? Or maybe he goes and visits our nations capital or white-house. Where does it end????

Shouldn’t we be equipping our solders with such a formidable deadly and very portable weapon??? They can easily have multiple pockets filled with such deadly weapons and millions of ammunition rounds. Oh the horror this Principle saved us from!!!!

When the Alcida Taliban see this gun and are busy laughing, we kill them all. It’s perfect!!!!!!

Democracy presumes equality so that needs to be abolished as well.

#22 Which is why you should do away with government schools and have only private schools. That way, if you want to send your kid to a d-bag dictatorial school w/ zero tolerance, you can. And if you want your kids playing with legos as part of the educational experience (my bro loved legos and he is now an architect) that you can do that too. One size fits all government schools is the problem here. The administration is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Also – my kids’ school has a zero tolerance policy for TOYS! If it isn’t needed for school, it is left at home. The article above doesn’t specifically say that he was caught playing with a toy gun… it could simply have been the TOY itself.

Also – maybe was already warned to NOT BRING Lego to school because he was caught playing with it in class before this… stop criticizing the administration immediately – you will NEVER know what led up to this incident and the subsequent punishment. Good for the Principal.

NYC schools send you straight to jail for that sort of behavior.

She’s in a “screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t” position.

RBG

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