Brett Glass sent along a link to this story from the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, Student removed from class because of drawings, in which an 11-year-old boy was taken out in handcuffs — for his own protection, according to authorities (sure) — because he drew pictures of guns.
I’m in favor of legal controls on gun ownership. But the idea that we’re going to kick kids out of school simply for drawing a picture of a gun is beyond the pale. Does this school plan to require that teachers not mention weapons, without which this nation would have no history at all?
The most chilling line in the news story is the last one. The school principal told the newspaper, “We just need to get it through kids’ heads that there are certain things you don’t say and there are certain things you don’t draw.”
Amerika, Amerika, God shed his grace on thee. Oh, sorry, we’re not supposed to mention religion, either.