A Staten Island fourth grader was nearly suspended for taking a machine gun to school. A two-inch plastic replica belonging to a LEGO policeman.
Nine year-old Patrick Timoney was playing with the LEGO toys with his friends in the school's lunchroom when the principal saw the toy gun and took him to her office to begin the suspension process. After calling the child's parents (his father is a retired police officer which is why Patrick liked the toy), common sense eventually prevailed over zero tolerance and little Patrick was set free. The gun was confiscated, presumably to be destroyed in a blast furnace.
The New York Department of Education backed the principle and said there was "cause for concern."
This story joins countless others we've hear about kids getting in trouble for plastic butter knives and guns printed on t-shirts. Supporters of such zero-tolerance policies claim they are in place to keep kids safe, but the truth is that there is an agenda at work.
All through school children are bombarded with messages that all weapons, especially guns, are bad, that people who carry guns are only up to no good, and if the Second Amendment is mentioned at all in school curriculum it is only in passing and dismissed as outdated. The propaganda is designed to instill a dislike for guns at an early age in order to progressively remove resistance to eroding gun rights. Repeat a lie often enough and people, especially kids, will begin to believe it. The end goal is to be able to one day repeal the Second Amendment with little resistance.
We're at a crossroads right now. Support for gun rights in this country is at its highest in decades. It is up to the parents to find out what their children are being taught and to put a stop to the propaganda before it is too late.
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I agree. I've been watching things like this happen for a few years, off and on, with hardly a speed bump in the regular news. It's also gotten silly as far as that young girl drawing on her desk with washable ink ... they put handcuffs on her!
This is a great case. I think all the major metropolitan cities should get together a file a lawsuit against LEGO.
But this was an AGENT OF THE STATE with a [toy] gun! And the little kid viewed this as a good thing. Why did the serf-trainers not view this as evidence of a job well done?
Get the children OUT of government indoctrination centers! You cannot "reform" a rabid dog. You simply have to shoot them.
MamaL is exactly right.
Please use spell check. Principal - not principle. "All through school children are bombarded with messages ..." ???
Oh wait, were not the other LEGO men in fear for their lives!!! The principal was right, you can not have dead toy men all over the school! LOL
Mayor Bloomburg has just released a statement that the kid will recieve the death penalty for owning a toy that looks like a gun.
When I hear stories like this, it makes me want to never let my children go to public school. It makes my blood boil, but the truth is it's really quite sad.
Let Go of My Leggo !!!!!!!!!!!!
Common sense does not seem to be something taught in public schools. Common sense starts at home, as in HOMEschooling your children.
The RSS feed here is malformed. I always get a 404 (article will be up in 5 minutes) even though the last one I got was posted on January 20th. Don't know who to tell because there doesn't seem to be a simple "email for problems" anywhere on the site.
The school library needs "a few good books", like
"Heather has two AR-15's",
"The New Girl … And Me Have Glock's",
"Who is armed in a Family?",
"And Tango Makes Three Trips to the Firing Range", and
"My School is Accepting Concealed Carry Permits".
That should prepare the little tykes for diversity.
This isn't safety; it's an agenda born of madness! An's right; this is meant to raise a generation so terrified of guns that the 2A can be easily repealed.
BTW, Spellchck won't catch the difference between "principle" and "principal". Both are legitimate words. It's up to the user to choose the right one.
*sigh* That would be "Dan's right" Proofreading is my friend...
There's a commie born every nanosecond. Most of them go into education, the rest go into politics. Where is Sentaor McCarthy when we need him?
And these idiots teach out kids?
I'm 60 now and I remember when all boys had pocket knives 'in school' and a few older ones had hunting rifles in their cars on school grounds to go hunting after school.
No one was stabbed or shot!
I lived only a few blocks from my high school, but often took side trips on the way to and back from school to hunt with my best friend. Nobody saw anything wrong with our rifles or shotguns, depending on what we were hunting at the time. A very good number of us carried our guns to school, especially since some of us were never without them, just in case we had a chance to get out in the fields and woods.
In grade school it was not uncommon for our female teachers to spend some time with the less accomplished kids at recess teaching remedial knife throwing so that they could pariticipate in knife games at recess like mumbley-peg, splits, and land.
Where the Hell did all the Americans go?
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