Mfw I brought in a toy gun for show and tell back in 1st grade...simpler times.

They'd have a heart attack if they lived in Texas. Here, it's normal for kids to skip days of school when deer season starts just to hunt. [spoiler]WITH ACTUAL GUNS. *GASP*[/spoiler]

Sounds like how the ninjas are on here. "YOU SAID RETARD? BANNED FOR 200 YEARS!" Seriously though the ninjas on here are just like those school people, they think they're doing the right thing when actually they're just being complete idiots.

How is it legal for them to punish a kid for shit that happened off school property? This reminds me of one of my religious schools that threatened to punish us if we went to an R-rated movie.

Well...that's silly. The line "A world gone soft" comes to mind, quite honestly. On a semi related note, it's amazing just how often someone ends up judged, reprimanded, passed over or fired over simple details collected by social media. Many employers will search for you on sites like Facebook and Twitter before ever looking into the claims and references on someone's resume. No doubt schools do so as well. Be mindful of such things.

What the -blam!-, fellow leftists? Seriously, this is the pop tart incident all over again

Some points to address in this situation are: >Most school shooters tell someone that they're going to do it. Be it a phone call, a Facebook post, Reddit thread, 4chan, etc. They often tell someone that they're going to do something, or post a picture of their weapon. How many kids post on Facebook that they're going to kick someone's ass or post a fight off school property of fighting someone? Someone being concerned for their safety or someone else's could've reported this to a superintendent and the people who liked the post thinking they might be in on the possible shooting as well. >Liking it to promote violence does sound silly and over the top but it is justified to a point. Your friend posts "I'm going to kick Brian's ass tomorrow" and you liking it but not telling him to stop is wrong. You don't technically promote the violence, but you let it happen, you do not intervene in anyway. Did you like that status to support your friend (supporting)? Did you like that status cause Brian is a dumbass who needs his ass kicked (promoting)? Or did you just like it just to let people know you saw it already (Social idea where being updated makes you in the now and more relatable, and how great it is to break the news to someone)? Liking is not promoting it's just not interfering with the violence or speaking up. >The Instagram post is BEYOND incredibly vague. It's just a picture of a gun (will elaborate on the next point) with the comment "ready" under it. What is he ready for is thrown into the air. It is a handgun obviously. Their small size allows it to be hidden so he can take it on a bus or fit it in a backpack without bringing suspicion. It's good for close range, has a reasonably sized clip, and can get job done. >Every airsoft weapon has an orange tip to indicate they are airsoft weapons according to federal law. [quote]However, federal importation laws in the United States simply require that all Airsoft gunstransported within or imported into the countryhave barrels with a minimum 6mm wide blazeorange tip, so as to avoid confusion with real firearms.[/quote] This weapon is missing it's orange tip. I guess to make the kid feel the gun is more realistic, but to an untrained eye makes it look like a real weapon. Which, as mentioned before, can lead to the report, a screenshot of the post, and the superintendent looking for that orange tip and not seeing it. Being the student reported the school system has to take action, if this is reported and they were like "That's just an airsoft gun" and they were wrong, the heat they would get. People would be losing their jobs. >Of course this photo could be saying just say "ready" as a fun post like a meme but there are other ways to make a funny post, such as spaghetti in the shape of a gun. If the student was making a joke, it was poorly executed. If he wasn't making a joke but simply saying he was ready for an airsoft game with friends, why didn't he elaborate? Which draws me to the conclusion he was just making a quick fun joke. No harm intended. Overall, do I think the school overreacted much? Of course they did. 10 day suspension for liking a post? Poor choice of punishment. But by his age, it's middle school, and I don't know about you guys but many middle schools use the "They're going through puberty so they're acting out and we have to punish them" idea to justify their actions. It's good to hear the student had their suspension removed. The actions taken should've been executed better, such as consoling, and discussing what is going on. But I can only make one proposed theory. While the punishment seems harsh, if the student has been previously in trouble (multiple occasions) before, it could explain the action taken. More crime, more severe punishment idea? Yet i still believe the actions taken were poorly executed by the adults in this situation. [spoiler]And before you say it >no I'm not obsessed with you, it's a topic that I can discuss with other users and you're the only person who posted it, calm down >no the left have nothing to do with it, this is just a school safety concern that has many questionable topics that if not left addressed in an open minded manner can build someone bias in some way or another cause boy does it make people mad when something happens they don't like and are too heated to think besides what they're told[/spoiler]

If i'm correct, the suspension was cancelled when the parents called the school to tell them that it was a misunderstanding

[quote]the left[/quote] Still beating off that dead horse I see

Daily mail, says it all. It's about as reliable as a chocolate fire guard. It's so full of 💩. The child in the picture looks about 16.

"Inappropriate behavior" how come I can search up Islamic State recruitment and they don't care but for liking a airsoft gun photo? Literally what

That's not the left, that's paranoid idiots.

This can't be real. I absolutely refuse to believe anyone can be [i]this[/i] stupid.

If only people cared about real issues, like how America is owned by Jewish bankers who force America to pay billions of interest induced taxpayer dollars to Israel every year so they can fund their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the biggest concentration camp in the world, the Gaza strip. Oh but nobody cares about this, let's talk about transgender bathrooms and airsoft guns.