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Students - Don't touch a BB gun. You'll get expelled for a year and a half

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SPALDING COUNTY, Ga. -- Parents of three students facing expulsion say they'll appeal the punishment.

Three seventh-grade friends, Andre Bussey, Alfred Burns and Darius Allen admit they made a mistake. Allen brought a BB gun onto a Cowan Road Middle School bus. Burns and Bussey said they touched the gun.

When Spalding County school administrators found out, the three were expelled.

Allen said he got the idea after a class discussion that the teacher admitted to in a statement to the principal. The teacher said the subject of guns came up in class.

The principal suspended Allen and a school tribunal kicked him out of the school system. Bussey and Burns were expelled for a year and a half for touching the gun.

Their parents are upset and do not think the punishment fits the crime. "And just being put out of school for just touching a gun, I don't think that fair at all," said Burns' mother Audrey Hightower.

A school spokesman said the boys committed a serious violation and stand behind the punishment.
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Really stupid of the kid for bringing even a BB gun but to expel two students merely for touching it? Did the ones who looked at the BB gun get suspended for four weeks?
 
DO not bring gun to school - bring school to gun.

Case in point: my buddies from school would gather up in backyard and shoot teh pellet rifle.
 
My brother frequently had a .22 in his car during his highschool years, he's fortunate it was never noticed. I'm sure he would have been arrested, expelled, and anything else they could come up with.

My dad took a hunting rifle to school (in the same school system) so that he could make a stock for it in wood shop.

In only 30 years we've gone completely bat-shit insane.

Viper GTS
 
They shouldn't have expelled them. They should've cut off that hands that touched the evil device. Only then will they be saved.
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
My brother frequently had a .22 in his car during his highschool years, he's fortunate it was never noticed. I'm sure he would have been arrested, expelled, and anything else they could come up with.

My dad took a hunting rifle to school (in the same school system) so that he could make a stock for it in wood shop.

In only 30 years we've gone completely bat-shit insane.

Viper GTS
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ehhh, 20 years. At least the world I lived in was fairly normal 20 years ago. Schools had rifle teams, etc. back then.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
They shouldn't have expelled them. They should've cut off that hands that touched the evil device. Only then will they be saved.
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they're beyond saving at that point through anything other than a lobotomy, obviously.
 
I graduated high school in 2001, and even then I and several other students and teachers would keep rifles and shotguns in their vehicles on display in gun racks, and it was never a problem. We used to go shooting at lunch out by the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, and sometimes we would even see teachers out there on their breaks trying to get a shot at a coyote. As long as it stayed in the locked vehicle, it was never a problem.

 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
My brother frequently had a .22 in his car during his highschool years, he's fortunate it was never noticed. I'm sure he would have been arrested, expelled, and anything else they could come up with.

My dad took a hunting rifle to school (in the same school system) so that he could make a stock for it in wood shop.

In only 30 years we've gone completely bat-shit insane.

Viper GTS
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I knew a kid who expelled (but it was revoked after about 8 months iirc, so basically get just had a massive 8 month suspension or whatever it ended up being) because a cop pulled him over (speeding down one of the streets running by the parking lots) and saw a BB gun that he had left in his car on the back seat.
Way out of bounds there... no proof he had intended to bring it into school, and the entire story was that he merely left it in his car.

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I had a friend that back in 9th grade had a similar experience.

Three of my friends were all over at the ones house, and his dad had some .22's. Well the kid whose dad owned the rifles (lets call him bob) decided to go out back and shoot it off. This would normally not be an issue in the country, but he lives in a subdevelopment with no woods, and houses completely able to see all the neighbors. A second friend (lets call him tom), decided to actually shoot the gun into the ground. The third friend (lets call him john), was just there and watched but didn't touch the weapon or shoot it.

Needless to say the police got called, and all three got in trouble. Bob (whose father was the owner of the weapons and it happened in his back yard) got "parental probation" for 6 months or so. Tom was 22 or so at the time and got a few hundred dollar fine. John, who didn't have anything to do with the discharging of it, got 6 months of actual probation (with drug tests and everything). John didn't have any criminal record of any kind, and the judge actually told him that because he didn't tell them "no this is a bad idea" and that is why he got probation for 6 months.
 
No touching, drawing, or even thinking of guns! Even though the wackos of the world who shoot up schools won't care about ridiculous zero-tolerance punishments such as this. Keep holding up that veil of justice though, prosecuting an innocent and harmless act to instill fear in people who don't give a fuck anyway if they're bringing a gun to school with the intent to use it. Defense is another story.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
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Yea, well, duh. I think the one who actually owned it and brought it should have recieved the harsh punishment though - not so much the ones who thought 'wow cool' and went to have a look. On the other hand they *could* have chosen not to do that...

I can understand why many here will defend children carrying firearms to school though. It is America after all - guns are a freaking religion for you lot! Shit I remember a thread here about a guy who shot up a group of teenagers for throwing an egg at him. I was one of only about 3 people in that thread who thought he did wrong.
 
3-4 years back when I was in high school we had a class called Sports Biology. We took frequent trips to the gun range for target practice and smash clay pigeons. Hell we even had a spring break trip into Northern MN for only hunting and fishing, we couldn't bring any food, only ate what we killed/caught. I bring this up because we had guns stored in the supply room of this class. There may not have been any ammo in them but there were in fact rifles in the school. wtf are these school board people thinking, expelling kids because they took a bb gun to school, it cant even kill someone, make a bad welt though at worse.
 
The kid who owned the gun was a moron for bringing it on the school bus. He knew what was going to happen. However, the kids who just touched the gun shouldn't really be punished.
 
Wow, incomplete story (and this is an incomplete sentence).
What discussion did the teacher have w/ the kids about guns?
Why was the child bringing a bb gun to school? Was it loaded? Has the child shown recklessness w/ a bb gun or had his parents taught him to use it properly?
If the boys got kicked out for touching the gun, shouldn't the teacher be fired for talking about guns (oh wait, unions protect them. Oh, and that'd be super retarded huh?)?
I wouldn't call the kid dumb for bringing a bb gun to school. If his reason was to show guns aren't dangerous when handled properly or the like (you know, educate his teacher and class).

1.5yrs suspension for touching something? If that something isn't genetalia then what the fuck? Even if it was genetalia, they're kids and I'm sure a week or month would suffice (esp if the parents punished them appropriatly during that time 'off' of school).

As adults we can say the kid made a poor judgement call but that's part of growing up. I'm not going to label him stupid/dumb.
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
My brother frequently had a .22 in his car during his highschool years, he's fortunate it was never noticed. I'm sure he would have been arrested, expelled, and anything else they could come up with.

My dad took a hunting rifle to school (in the same school system) so that he could make a stock for it in wood shop.

In only 30 years we've gone completely bat-shit insane.

Viper GTS
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indeed, my father did the same in high school. I remember in 7th grade...i opened my infamous trapper keeper one morning to find one of my pocket knives laying inside... i panicked and immediately brought the whole binder up to the teacher. :laugh: good thing it was alabama, all they did was take it and i had to have my mom come in and get it. :laugh:
 
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