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Boys suspended from school for using fingers as guns


Posted: Jan 16, 2013

It's a sad, sad day when kids aren't allowed to play. Really, really getting out of control. Such stupid reactions. The poor kids of today can't have any fun or play any kind of game anymore. No wonder they are always playing video games and/or watching TV. Nothing else for them to do! Then our politicians want kids to play for exercise instead of the video games or TV. 

They're trying to ban guns and ammo (2nd Amendment) but won't do a darn thing about VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES OR MOVIES (claiming 1st Amendment freedom of speech). This is my biggest beef!!!! Those games and movies have a role in the desensitizing of our children but because the movie industry backed Obama, they won't do anything about them.  Sickening.

TALBOT COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — Is it child’s play or a serious threat of gun violence? For the second time in less than a month, a Maryland child is kicked out of school for using his finger in the shape of a gun.

Kai Jackson has more on the controversy.

No one is debating the importance of keeping children safe. The question being asked is what’s child’s play and what’s not?

There’s controversy at a Talbot County school after two 6-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess and using their fingers to make an imaginary gun.

“It’s ridiculous,” said parent Julia Merchant.

This is the second time a Maryland child has been suspended for such play. Earlier this month, 6-year-old Rodney Lynch was suspended from his Montgomery County school after pretending to fire an imaginary gun more than once.

Read More here: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/parents-furious-after-young-boys-suspended-after-playing-with-imaginary-weapon/

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Your 100% right...on all points - xcopper

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its all about power and the movie industry backs the dems...Yet those same 2-faced morons go on and on about gun violence..How many people did you "shoot" in your last movie, or how many "bombed" and how many "dead bodies" All desensitization techniques..But lets not forget the parents role in this whole mess...Stop being your kids friends, you are their parent until they grow up...Speaking of which mine just called to tell me the gun show is this weekend and be at his house by noon so we can go... :-)

How can you complain about guns on TV - and then go to a gun show?

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Because I have carried a gun for - sm

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As a profession for 15 yrs till I got hurt and had to retired..I have carried concealed most of my adult life...AND I HAVE NEVER HAD TP SHOOT ANYONE...its not the guns its the idiots behind them..

Xcopper, do you have the same disdain for G-rated NRA games - putting guns in the hands of

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4-years olds and rewarding them for shooting the most coffins? Safe to say that vid was definitely not backed by our prez.

My take on all this crap - sm

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Kids are desensitized by movies and video games..But if you actually parent your child, and dont let them do whatever they want, talk to then, be there for them, guide them, give them your time..Thats more important,,both mine watched them one is a police officer now, one is a deans list architecture major..And they were raised by a single mom..

I agree. It's just more of your typical wussifying of boys - in this country. (sm)

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It really is sad. Cowboys and Indians, I remember playing it as a kid, and my kids did. No more. I guess it's not PC. Everyone is a winner, though. Woo-hoo!

I see it more as a reaction to recent violence - RC

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I'm sure teachers are feeling hyper-vigilant and protective after what happened in Newton, and seeing a small child run around play-shooting his peers is probably unnerving.

There is outrage regarding kids pretending to shoot each other in video games and actors pretending to shoot each other in movies, but when a boy does it on a playground and is suspended from school, that is "wussifying?"

As for Cowboys and Indians, I suppose that's a personal thing. I wouldn't want my kids playing it because of the history behind it, but I understand that some might find that hypersensitive on my part. It also bothers me that people still call Native Americans "Indians." Indians are from India, and Christopher Columbus' mistake has inaccurately labeled the entire population of people who inhabited this continent before we ever did.

Your right - sm

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What ever happened to competition...Not everyone always wins..The kids nowadays are so overprotected by everyone that when they get out on their own they have no idea what to do...Girls and boys we seriously need to make some changes and government control isnt the one we need

Calm down, folks, then take your concerns to the - school district that enforces that policy.

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Feds don't dictate district policies in Montgomery County. Also, as I recall, democrats have never been all that big on "zero tolerance" policies. Perhaps this falls under the category of unintended consequences, eh?

Exactly. What a sensible post. - nm

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