What a joke this is, conditioning kids to fear their own rights not to mention just letting kids be kids. Who here didn't have a toy gun when they were younger.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
those out of shape folks standing around wouldn't be able to outrun a robber.....America isn't starving, it's dying and it's dying to make sure those in charge of the food supply control those in charge of the guns.....
we're in trouble
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Eight-year-old Samuel England was left in tears after a police officer ordered that his toy gun should be broken in front of him.
The youngsters was playing with the plastic toy outside his house in Pinehurst on Wednesday when the police officer pulled him up.
Samuel England with mum Sarah Woodhouse and the toy gun police made him break
The family say the officer called at the family's home and said it was an offence for Samuel to play with an imitation firearm in a public place.
Samuel's mother's partner John Standen, 34, was told to destroy the gun or face the boy being taken to the police station.
Sophie England and the Barbie car she was pulled up in
"The officer told me if I didn't break it Samuel would be arrested," he said. "It is not right as it is only a toy gun - you can buy them everywhere."
Five minutes after the police officer had witnessed the destruction of the gun, he returned to complain about sister Sophie's Barbie car. The six-year-old was travelling on the pavement in the battery-powered car at three miles an hour and the officer said it is only allowed in the garden.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Eight-year-old Samuel England was left in tears after a police officer ordered that his toy gun should be broken in front of him.
The youngsters was playing with the plastic toy outside his house in Pinehurst on Wednesday when the police officer pulled him up.
Samuel England with mum Sarah Woodhouse and the toy gun police made him break
The family say the officer called at the family's home and said it was an offence for Samuel to play with an imitation firearm in a public place.
Samuel's mother's partner John Standen, 34, was told to destroy the gun or face the boy being taken to the police station.
Sophie England and the Barbie car she was pulled up in
"The officer told me if I didn't break it Samuel would be arrested," he said. "It is not right as it is only a toy gun - you can buy them everywhere."
Five minutes after the police officer had witnessed the destruction of the gun, he returned to complain about sister Sophie's Barbie car. The six-year-old was travelling on the pavement in the battery-powered car at three miles an hour and the officer said it is only allowed in the garden.
I recall reading about this...happened in 2007 in England. Just thought it was a little bizarre. Don't know about British laws, but does seem extreme...weird, too. Wonder what was behind enactment of these rules.
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
I recall reading about this...happened in 2007 in England. Just thought it was a little bizarre. Don't know about British laws, but does seem extreme...weird, too. Wonder what was behind enactment of these rules.
Could be a law or could have been just an a$$hole cop, my guess just an a$$hole cop considering he came back and made the girl stop riding her Barbie car.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I don't like the fact that a school is involved in a social/political position that many parents might have a different opinion on. All these parents who feel the need to show off their ant-gun beliefs publicly, who is it that their kids had guns in the first place? Why didn't they just confiscate them themselves, if they didn't want their own kids to have them? It just shows that people buy into the idea that the authorities own their children. Sad.
I don't like the fact that a school is involved in a social/political position that many parents might have a different opinion on. All these parents who feel the need to show off their ant-gun beliefs publicly, who is it that their kids had guns in the first place? Why didn't they just confiscate them themselves, if they didn't want their own kids to have them? It just shows that people buy into the idea that the authorities own their children. Sad.
stockholm syndrome...no different than when teachers wear shirts of 'color' on a certain day to 'protest' their contract...like the kids don't know what they are doing.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Can a Pop Tart really be bitten into a credible gun shape? I would want to hear testimony from a pediatric dentist on that one. Dillenger allegedly used a fake gun to escape prison, but he was an adult with knowledge of guns and time on his hands. How do they know this breakfast treat was meant to be a gun? Because he pointed it? Is there a rule against pointing food? Did the 7 year old incriminate himself? Did they question him without reading himhis rights? Wouldn't it be nice if schools went back to teaching civics, and social issues stayed in high school social studies classrooms? All that time and money wasted on phony discipline issues, and this kid is being deprived of his right to an education.
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