More Insanity.

[AuEagle]

This is truly insane.

TN teen suspended, charged with felony after pointing finger gun on school bus (wkrn.com)

Edited September 15 by AuEagle

[papa61]

20 plus years ago, two boys were suspended for having a Smoky Mountain Knife Works catalog in school. We have not stood up against these stupidities until here we are.

The adage of putting a frog in a pot of water and turning the heat up slowly comes to mind.

I hope the family gets a Johnny Cochran type and tears the school system a new one.

[Tom B]

About 25 years ago my boss's kid was in high school. The teacher asked the class about their hobbies. He's a target shooter so he answered 'shooting'.  She seemed confused, and asked what he meant. He made a finger gun and said "you know, shooting. Bang Bang.'

 Well, she went to the principal and said something to the effect that she felt threatened, and he got suspended.

 It cost my boss quite a bit in lawyer fees to get it all straightened out.

 

[Jpoc700]

I know I'm old but I carried a pocket knife in grade school starting 3rd grade maybe younger.  I also brought my father's K-bar and a Nazi dagger that my great uncle took from let's say someone who didn't need it anymore, to school for show and tell. Maybe it's the way we were raised compared to how kids are today, maybe it's the drugs we hand out like candy.  I know one thing theirs a lack of respect and accountability, until that changes things will remain messed up.

[RED333]

Leftest commies are making guns out to bad all the way around. Over time our great grandchildren will be anti gun and vote out the 2nd. Commies are going to make this country over to their liking. All part of the plan.

[papa61]

3 hours ago, Jpoc700 said:

I know I'm old but I carried a pocket knife in grade school starting 3rd grade maybe younger.  I also brought my father's K-bar and a Nazi dagger that my great uncle took from let's say someone who didn't need it anymore, to school for show and tell. Maybe it's the way we were raised compared to how kids are today, maybe it's the drugs we hand out like candy.  I know one thing theirs a lack of respect and accountability, until that changes things will remain messed up.

I carried an Old Timer lock back in a sheath on my belt in high school. I never had a question. I've said before, I read an article by an old gun writer who grew up during the depression, he stated he took his 22 rifle to school every day and hunted meat on the way home. He said the teacher put it in the closet with the rest of them. Americans have been duped into it's a gun problem. It's obvious it isn't. 

[pop pop]

When I was a kid, in KY during hunting season, we took our shotguns to school and stored them in the coat room until school was out then hunted rabbits on the way home. A Yankee family moved in our community and the mother found out about our guns and complained. The principal made us bring the shotguns to his office, to appease her concerns, and we had to leave them there until school was over.  

Edited to add. I was in the 4th grade and 9 Y O. My friend was 10. 

Edited September 15 by pop pop

[Sleep profit]

I was a freshman in High School. I went squirrel hunting with a friend. After we went to school and went to class.  I had a big Ford LTD 4 door like a tank lol  I had put a old 22 cal Ithaca saddle gun single shot in the back seat forgot about it My fault I was 14  someone saw it  I got called to principal office. He asked why. I told him I was stupid.  He agreed and told me to never bring one back. There was not a swat team.  No expelling  that was the end of it I would be in prison today And we all carried knives No one cared Very thankful I grew up in that timeframe I wish the world was that simple today. 

[gregintenn]

I once traded rifles with my 7th grade teacher. Times have most definitely changed.

[Grayfox54]

I've been saying for years that the American educational system has been intentionally brainwashing our kids into stupid, liberal sheep. They've been playing the long game for many years and now its starting to pay off for them. 

[RED333]

Eric Holder years ago, this is their plan. COMMIE PIG!!!

 

[papa61]

25 minutes ago, Grayfox54 said:

I've been saying for years that the American educational system has been intentionally brainwashing our kids into stupid, liberal sheep. They've been playing the long game for many years and now its starting to pay off for them. 

This is why there are no school systems adopting the teacher carry law. Our higher education system has good and bad points. Pushing socialist agendas and pacifist practices are positively on the bad list. 

[Moped]

When I was in HS at Powell, in the late 70s - early 80s, shotguns in the windows of pickup trucks was a common sight in the school parking lot. I myself carried an Uncle Henry folding Hunter knife in a sheath, on my belt, daily. Try that now and you’ll get suspended if your a student.

[Tom B]

16 hours ago, pop pop said:

When I was a kid, in KY during hunting season, we took our shotguns to school and stored them in the coat room until school was out then hunted rabbits on the way home. A Yankee family moved in our community and the mother found out about our guns and complained. The principal made us bring the shotguns to his office, to appease her concerns, and we had to leave them there until school was over. 

  Growing up in CT, we would walk out in the woods behind our house and shoot 22's. Never a big deal.

 One of my favorite stories about liberals- There was a gun club in a small town that was there since the 1930's. Pretty low key, mostly did trap and skeet shooting Sunday mornings. In the 1980's some couple from NY bought property close to it and build a huge house (it was their weekend house). Apparently the realtor forgot to mention the gun club-lol.

Anyway, they sued the gun club and tried to get it closed down. In the end they lost, but the club spent a lot of money on a lawyer.

Another club, the oldest in CT I believe, had a guy claim he found a bullet on his property about a mile away. He showed it to them, the bullet was still in the case-lol. But they still found a lawyer to sue them .There was a lawsuit, and the club had to put these blinder things on each rifle lane. So if shooting a rifle from the bench, there is a wall several inches above the barrel so as not to shoot too high. I hear it gets in the way of big scopes.

Ive mentioned before, so glad to get out of that ****hole state

 

You dont even want to know whats involved in doing a gun sale or trade there.

Edited September 16 by Tom B

[RED333]

I am as guilty as all, we have to get involved in the local elections. Get sound minded people elected. Get Civics taught back in school.

[DraxTheDad]

20 years ago, in Commifornia, my oldest son was suspended for biting his sandwich into the shape of a gun.

WTF?

He was in 1st grade at the time, and oddly at the time we had no guns at all. 

 

BTW, he was suspended a few years later for bringing a weapon to school, Hot Sauce.  I kid you not.

Edited September 16 by CylonGlitch

[RED333]

1 hour ago, CylonGlitch said:

20 years ago, in Commifornia, my oldest son was suspended for biting his sandwich into the shape of a gun.

WTF?

I have heard these storys before, what a shame,

 

1 hour ago, CylonGlitch said:

BTW, he was suspended a few years later for bringing a weapon to school, Hot Sauce.  I kid you not.

NO FRICKING WAY, what in the world is happening.

Location:
Waverly, TN

You are out there in Gods country. I lived in Bon Aqua 45 years ago, HS in Dickson.

Edited September 16 by RED333
Because I can

[ianb]

Thankfully, I grew up in a community where guns and knives were tools. The gun rack in the truck might hold anything from a rifle or shotgun to a baseball bat or crowbar, or even an umbrella for Mom on Sunday. 

From my earliest recollection my dad used to say "if a man don't carry a knife, he outta carry a purse." 

[DraxTheDad]

On 9/16/2024 at 5:46 PM, RED333 said:

Location:
Waverly, TN

You are out there in Gods country. I lived in Bon Aqua 45 years ago, HS in Dickson.

The only redeeming quality of SoCal was the weather.   A lot of crazy people there, a LOT of people overall.   My son is still there and he has a car sitting for a year that he hasn’t driven.  Went to register it, and they wanted not only the $450 registration (it’s a 2010) but also registration for the year it was sitting, plus fines for not registering it as an unused vehicle.   

I forgot to register my 2021 pickup for six months, didn’t even realize it past…. $29.  Even worse, I was in CA visiting my son, and couldn’t get the paperwork, so they mailed it to me in CA.   What nice people, really what makes the world a better place.

[Tom B]

12 hours ago, CylonGlitch said:

The only redeeming quality of SoCal was the weather.   A lot of crazy people there, a LOT of people overall.   My son is still there and he has a car sitting for a year that he hasn’t driven.  Went to register it, and they wanted not only the $450 registration (it’s a 2010) but also registration for the year it was sitting, plus fines for not registering it as an unused vehicle.  

This is how liberal states operate. They rape the folks that work and have money. Especially the middle class, since a $450 registration isnt a big deal to a rich guy. Then they give it to the folks that dont work, kind of a payment to them to vote democrat.

[LangdoniousRex]

As a younger fella, I've been hearing the "back in my day" stories since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Thing is, they will only ever be stories since we had the rotten luck of being born too late to experience life like it was in "the good old days". It's funny that the same people with the same old stories are also the ones still waiting for "someone" to do something about it.

While y'all have been romanticizing the past while simultaneously complaining about how the world around us is going to hell, the opportunity to make any significant change has long since passed so enjoy your little story/therapy sessions while y'all still can. The world will simply continue to burn in the meantime.

[ArmyBrat61]

4 hours ago, LangdoniousRex said:

The world will simply continue to burn in the meantime.

We didn't start the fire. It's been always burnin since the world's been turnin.

The flames are just hotter now.......

[DraxTheDad]

Quote

This is how liberal states operate. They rape the folks that work and have money. Especially the middle class, since a $450 registration isnt a big deal to a rich guy. Then they give it to the folks that dont work, kind of a payment to them to vote democrat.

Even worse, my son makes about $5000 to $10,000 a year, he has started his own business and is what most consider POOR.   He only has a place to live because I own it.   He should be getting the hand outs left and right, but doesn't.  He doesn't want to take any but also doesn't qualify for various, bad, reasons.   I had to buy him new tires for his car because he couldn't afford them.  CA doesn't care about you unless you are a one of their "protected" people.

[BigK]

1 hour ago, CylonGlitch said:

Even worse, my son makes about $5000 to $10,000 a year, he has started his own business and is what most consider POOR.   He only has a place to live because I own it.   He should be getting the hand outs left and right, but doesn't.  He doesn't want to take any but also doesn't qualify for various, bad, reasons.   I had to buy him new tires for his car because he couldn't afford them.  CA doesn't care about you unless you are a one of their "protected" people.

The biggest flaw to gov't assistance is the fact that they don't give people a chance to work their way out of poverty. They boot them off the dole before their first paycheck arrives. It's almost as if they want the poor to stay poor and dependent on them. 

[papa61]

15 hours ago, LangdoniousRex said:

As a younger fella, I've been hearing the "back in my day" stories since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Thing is, they will only ever be stories since we had the rotten luck of being born too late to experience life like it was in "the good old days". It's funny that the same people with the same old stories are also the ones still waiting for "someone" to do something about it.

While y'all have been romanticizing the past while simultaneously complaining about how the world around us is going to hell, the opportunity to make any significant change has long since passed so enjoy your little story/therapy sessions while y'all still can. The world will simply continue to burn in the meantime.

I am not offended. Being born in 1961 I wasn't available to ensure the Acts of congress in 34 and 68 infringing were thrown out as treason. I have voted conservative since the first election I was eligible. I have went into the school when my children were in and let them know they could not force their liberal acceptance issues on my children who were raised with Christian morals. I stand and tell everyone how foolish gun controllers "common sense' is. I have stood in front of a judge and told her she did not have the authority to make me sell my guns. (she backed down) I have refused to obtain a CCW permit because federal case law states that you cannot apply a fee or test to any God given constitutionally guaranteed right. Not because I couldn't pass the test or pay the fees, because it was wrong. I carried before our Tennessee lawmakers saw fit to have "shall issue" permits. Every sheriff's deputy and half of the city police knew it, knew me, and were unconcerned. I stand up for myself and vote for the lesser of two evils. Many voted for the man who used his office and power for sex and lied at every turn because "It's the economy stupid" was a good slogan. I had no reason to have a gun rack in the back window nor carry a firearm in school but I did carry a large lock-back in a sheath on my belt. I took vocational classes and it was a tool like any other. I won't shrink from the fundamental statements made in the bill of rights and other writings of those who wrote them and signed them. I have been counted, my beliefs put a target on my back and that's fine with me. I am tolerant but I don't have to be accepting nor am I to judge others.