Young Marine Faces Expulsion For Replica Rifles

toreskha · #11 02-10-2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by KimberPB

I know the rifles the ROTC at my High school used were all wooden. Ya it resembled the real rifle but if you just took a sec you'd realize it was a chunk of wood. Also they use to practice in the band room and the parking lot of the school. That wasn't that long ago.

They did at my school too...they just looked like rubber band guns.

But some schools apparently use ones with finished wood, metal parts and a trigger guard. That's not super smart to begin with, giving them something for school that they can't freely carry around campus.

alelks · #12 02-11-2009, 12:00 AM

I remember a few years ago they expelled a very young kid for just pointing his finger at someone like it was a gun and pulling the trigger. I guess the kids can't play cowboys and Indians anymore. Another kid was expelled for giving a little girl a peck on the cheek.

OOPS I guess cowboys and Indians is not politically correct.

AL

Scarecrow · #13 02-11-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Piece Corps

Another case of absurd political correctness. In one case, a kid was expelled from school for drawing (with a crayon) a picture of a gun. It would've been cool if the entire class had them drawn all kinds of guns, and the entire class expelled. Imagine the uproar from the community.

I think it's time for a lot of civil disobedience. I think an entire ROTC team should show up at school with their practice rifles, and get expelled. A lot of students with good grades and exemplary atendance getting kicked out of school for participating in an ROTC program. And that would be just a start.

It's time to start using this kind of action to overload these idiotic bureaucracies and get them thrown out. PC is a main reason why this country has gone to hell.

+1.. fighting stupidity and ignorance is long overdue!

Alaskan · #14 02-14-2009, 02:56 AM

if cops can carry in public (at schools) a student in ROTC SHOULD be allowed to carry a fake gun.
Next they will make cops keep their guns a the station and go get them if need

old dude · #15 03-03-2009, 09:48 PM

years ago we took nra hunters training at the high school ,part of the class training was bringing in our 22 rifles for firearm training then going out behind the school and doing some shooting one girl brought in her fathers 30-30,they used to also have a 22 caliber shooting team at the school and indoor range in the basement.they added cross country sking into it later.now you dont even want to mention the word gun in a school.

Austin · #16 03-04-2009, 01:44 AM

It is too bad that there isnt a need to prove intent anymore.

I do not feel that she had the intent to scare any chilluns

Save the chilluns

ecocks · #17 03-08-2009, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by HK4U

I remember taking an ROTC course in high school in the late 60's. The guns we used then were real. Of course that was before insanity set in.

Yeah, my school had an armory (with over 400 M-1's, a few M-14's, an M-79 grenade launcher and an M-60), rifle range (real, bolt-action .22's stored in the armory), a rifle team and drill team with real rifles also. I know they all could be cocked and have magazines or belts inserted but could have had their firing pins shortened I suppose.

Does anyone even know of a HS level ROTC unit which has these thing anymore? Do these still exist?

How did we avoid all the campus massacres back in those days?

.45_4me · #18 03-08-2009, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by alelks

I remember a few years ago they expelled a very young kid for just pointing his finger at someone like it was a gun and pulling the trigger. I guess the kids can't play cowboys and Indians anymore. Another kid was expelled for giving a little girl a peck on the cheek.

OOPS I guess cowboys and Indians is not politically correct.

AL

Or how about the kid that got into trouble for drawing a picture of a building, which the screwl thaught looked like a gun!

ronwill · #19 03-08-2009, 10:38 AM

When I went to high school (many, many years ago) the school had an NRA sponsored rifle club. Now you get in all kinds of trouble for a drill weapon that can't fire and is no danger. It's simply baffling that this could occur.

Glock Fan · #20 03-08-2009, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ronwill

When I went to high school (many, many years ago) the school had an NRA sponsored rifle club. Now you get in all kinds of trouble for a drill weapon that can't fire and is no danger. It's simply baffling that this could occur.

Sad part is that it's highly likely to get a lot worse......

gf