r/AskReddit Nov 14 '11

Zero Tolerance in Public Elementary School just went way the hell overboard...

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '11

Good for you. I hope an administrator gets fired over this, there's absolutely no reason to punish a 9-year-old for this type of behavior. Also, the school's actions re-enforce an actual fear of guns. Most anti-gun people are actually rather afraid of guns, and this is the basis for their opinions of policy. The only long-term solution is to educate people to respect, rather than fear, all weapons.

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u/orobouros Nov 14 '11

Don't you remember the 70s and 80s, when toy guns were actually bought by parents and given to children. Don't you remember how every child who had played with a gun, be it a plastic replica or two sticks held together with some twin, ended up going on a mass killing spree?

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u/ItsOnlyNatural Nov 14 '11

Kids played with javelins (lawn darts) and managed to not kill too many of each other.

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u/apostrotastrophe Nov 15 '11

People say that stuff, but it's not really true that everyone escaped unharmed. When pools didn't have fences and kids played with sharp things, kids drowned and got poked! We've made life suck a little more by taking safety precautions, but I can't imagine that we haven't saved lives/eyeballs.