“Don’t carry a gun. It’s nice to have them close by, but don’t carry them. You might get arrested.” —John Gotti
An Airsoft gun can be dangerous. Dangerous because if one gets hit in the eye with one of those plastic BB’s, an eye could be lost. Like the old saying goes, “It’s all fun and games until somebody puts an eye out.” So here is this kid…He brings an Airsoft Pistol to school. Clearly, a very poor choice. But, let’s face it. If the kid brought a large chunk of soap to school, fashioned in the shape of a gun the school response would be the same. Perhaps the word, “GUN” milled from steel in a CNC machine and then hot-blued… If you can admire “publik edjukayshen” for anything, they are to be lauded for their sheer ability to be consistent in this one single area.
“Administrators are “following all protocols” that have been set up to deal with a situation in which firearms [sic] are brought to a school,” says Superintendent Robert Suprenant to the Nashua Telegraph. “Firearms?” If we follow the strict definition of what a firearm is, an Airsoft pistol or rifle is not a firearm. It only looks like a firearm…but I guess that is good enough. Yeah…we can launch a campaign to ban them, too!
I think it is fair to say that an Airsoft gun is somewhat dangerous….to they eyes, that is. All other parts of the body are only affected by a small welt that disappears in 40 minutes and some hurt feelings…Oh no…wait…I forgot…“It looked like a gun” Counselors and Therapy too.
So, despite the clear distinction between an actual firearm and an Airsoft pistol, that distinction does not exist within the educational aparatchik. Anti-gun Educrats refuse to make such distinctions as part and parcel to their larger anti-gun, anti-second amendment progressive agenda they puke upon our malleable children.
This kid will likely be punished as if he were a mini-gang-banger and he will be punished to the maximum extent of the district policy. Not because he brought a dangerous item to school, but because the dangerous item (not a firearm) “looked like a gun.” And by God, that is plum enough for the Education Saints.
In order for the liberal anti-gun template to be effective and to mold young hearts and minds in that bent, Be it soap, wood or metal, if it looks like a gun it must be severely punished. It is an acceptable notion to throw a fourth or fifth grade impressionable kid to the seething legal wolves to ram home the anti-gun point.
The sacrificial trauma of one, for the benefit of the many…But what benefit? Been on You-Tube lately? nothing gets by kids these days.
