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Anti-Gun nutters arrest student for NRA tee shirt

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irishScott said:
I'm not saying they (or the kid) didn't lie, just that we don't have any proof that they did. A comment from the school might clear things up.
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I'm no an of the police but I'm sure they did not arrest a child for nothing. Although they are not all above that. If they did I hope they sue sue sue. And then sue the school to boot. The police report is probably available.
 
If it turns out that the kid got arrested just because he was wearing a NRA T-shirt, you would have a point. When the full facts finally come out, its rare that the initial outrage was related to reality.
 
IBMer said:
If it turns out that the kid got arrested just because he was wearing a NRA T-shirt, you would have a point. When the full facts finally come out, its rare that the initial outrage was related to reality.
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There's no policy against wearing a shirt like this so it's hard to see a legitimate reason to have given a rough time to begin with.
 
You all have my pity.
I'm sorry you have to live in a place with such rules.

Arrested over a shirt...good luck getting out of your PC insanity.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
There's no policy against wearing a shirt like this so it's hard to see a legitimate reason to have given a rough time to begin with.
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I'm pretty sure every school bans weapons, drugs, and other content from clothing. Like I said we had the same rule 20 years ago in TEXAS. Not California or any other gun grabber state.
 
It's amazing how the corporate/government brainwashing has resulted in fools who don't know or want to know the history of their hard fought rights and are so willing to bend over today,

If politically correct people like yourselves were back in the 60's the Vietnam war and draft would probably still be going on.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html

Tinker v. Des Moines
Independent Community School District


No. 21 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
393 U.S. 503
Argued November 12, 1968
Decided February 24, 1969

Syllabus Petitioners, three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam. They sought nominal damages and an injunction against a regulation that the respondents had promulgated banning the wearing of armbands. The District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that the regulation was within the Board's power, despite the absence of any finding of substantial interference with the conduct of school activities. The Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, affirmed by an equally divided court. Held:


1. In wearing armbands, the petitioners were quiet and passive. They were not disruptive and did not impinge upon the rights of others. In these circumstances, their conduct was within the protection of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth. Pp. 505-506.

2. First Amendment rights are available to teachers and students, subject to application in light of the special characteristics of the school environment. Pp. 506-507.

3. A prohibition against expression of opinion, without any evidence that the rule is necessary to avoid substantial interference with school discipline or the rights of others, is not permissible under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Pp. 507-514.
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Juror No. 8 said:
It's amusing to read all the rationalizations coming from the Big Government nutters in this thread. If the arrested child had been a black kid wearing an Obama shirt to school in a small conservative town, they'd be screaming bloody murder right now.

"But, but, but... he was just exercising his First Amendment rights! The teacher had no right to make an issue of it! It's just a shirt! This is racism!"

LOL, what a bunch of phonies.
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Conservatives have been demonstrated by science to rationalize and not seeing it, accuse others as the ones who practice it. This is the result of a brain defect, a cowardly inability to look at the truth about themselves because what they see would make them feel shame if they did. Your capacity for judgment is nil and there is no way to save you from your pathetic state. You are immune to logic and reason.
 
Sohaltang said:
I'm pretty sure every school bans weapons, drugs, and other content from clothing. Like I said we had the same rule 20 years ago in TEXAS. Not California or any other gun grabber state.
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This. You can't wear a shirt with a gun on it for years now in the schools. Caught the news real quick at work, this is what they said.... Kid mouthed off to the police when they arrived wouldn't stop going on about his 'rights'. The parents wanted the minors name released despite minors being afforded anonymity. They want to make a case of this which leads me to believe there just might be a hidden agenda at work here....
 
umbrella39 said:
This. You can't wear a shirt with a gun on it for years now in the schools. Caught the news real quick at work, this is what they said.... Kid mouthed off to the police when they arrived wouldn't stop going on about his 'rights'. The parents wanted the minors name released despite minors being afforded anonymity. They want to make a case of this which leads me to believe there just might be a hidden agenda at work here....
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I'd say the agenda isn't hidden at all.....

AFRWDQ.

Another Fucking Right Wing Drama Queen.
 
Moonbeam said:
Conservatives have been demonstrated by science to rationalize and not seeing it, accuse others as the ones who practice it. This is the result of a brain defect, a cowardly inability to look at the truth about themselves because what they see would make them feel shame if they did. Your capacity for judgment is nil and there is no way to save you from your pathetic state. You are immune to logic and reason.
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You never het tired of that do you?
 
How much you want to bet that the father gave him the Tshirt to wear to school, as a way of provoking an issue at school? I would be willing be bet that was it, and even though I agree arresting the kid is way over the top (just have the parents bring a new Tshirt to the school, or make him wear a shirt from lost in found) I am pretty sure things escalated and the kid was mouthing off about his rights and the NRA Tshirt. Not a good sign of parenting if your using your kids to make political points in their school honestly. When my kids were growing up they had very strict rules about what the kids could wear and they even banned certain types of art and graphics on T shirts.

I remember having to be called to the school and take time off from work to bring my son a regular shirt because he wore his Disturbed concert Tshirt that had some offensive language on it.
 
IBMer said:
If it turns out that the kid got arrested just because he was wearing a NRA T-shirt, you would have a point. When the full facts finally come out, its rare that the initial outrage was related to reality.
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Predictably, the OP appears to be a lie. I dug through several articles about this. It appears the kid was stopped in the cafeteria and told to either change or reverse his shirt. He refused and was sent to the office. He continued to defy school officials and be disruptive. They called the police. When the officer arrived, he told the kid to sit down and be quiet. The kid still refused and was arrested for obstruction.

In short, if that version of the story is accurate, the kid was arrested not for the shirt, but because he's a jackass.

Unfortunately, confirming the whole story may be difficult. The school likely has a policy against discussing such incidents to protect students' privacy. The police are likely limited because he's a juvenile. That leaves the kid and his family who are highly motivated to twist the story to serve their agenda. All that said, it does look like the school may have violated their own policy in demanding he remove the shirt. It's hard to know without knowing their side of the story.
 
Moonbeam said:
Isn't the purpose of the NRA to insure as much gun violence in America as possible so people feel a need to buy them for protection against them? Why would an organization's tee shirt, if bent on societal destruction and school ground killings, be proper attire for the classroom?
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What a fucking dip shit.
 
DCal430 said:
Kid should be expelled from the school.
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Any other gun owners want to grab some AR-15s and go stand in a circle around DCal? It should be like surrounding a pidgeon. He'll just nervously spin around in a circle while we stand there and laugh.

Edit: It's be brought to my attention that some may take this post a little too seriously. So...

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irishScott said:
Any other gun owners want to grab some AR-15s and go stand in a circle around DCal? It should be like surrounding a pidgeon. He'll just nervously spin around in a circle while we stand there and laugh.
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Did you really just post that comment? You really didn't think that out, did you?
 
UberNeuman said:
Did you really just post that comment? You really didn't think that out, did you?
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What? There's no real-world threat there. You obviously haven't seen a lot of his posts on assault weapons. His rampant fear of them is both pathetic and sadly hilarious. Hell I don't even know where DCal lives aside from "California". Even if I did, you seriously think I'd travel from Delaware to California just to inflict some mild psychological trauma on DCal?

You also called me out when I made that joke about modifying model rockets into guided missiles to shoot down hypothetical privately owned drones. Methinks you take some things too seriously.
 
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irishScott said:
What? There's no real-world threat there. You obviously haven't seen a lot of his posts on assault weapons. His rampant fear of them is both pathetic and sadly hilarious. Hell I don't even know where DCal lives aside from "California". You seriously think I'd travel from Delaware to California just to inflict some mild psychological trauma on DCal?

You also called me out when I made that joke about modifying model rockets into guided missiles to shoot down hypothetical privately owned drones. Methinks you take some things too seriously.
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You've crossed the line with that comment. You can't see that, but you have...

\your addendum to your post doesn't take away the message...
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UberNeuman said:
Message received...
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Well given that your profile has you regularly refreshing the thread (I'm bored and you've peaked my curiosity) I presume you're expecting something. Reported me to the mods? Last I checked making fun of people's irrationality wasn't against the forum rules.

In any case, I'll assume you're trolling for now. You do have an intermittant track record of that.
 
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