It just keeps getting crazier!

[DanISSELisdaman]

I think they just want publicity, nobody could be this stupid!



http://news.msn.com/us/ri-7th-grader-appeals-suspension-for-gun-keychain

[CitizenBBN]

Yep this one was some 2 inch plastic toy thing he won at an arcade. Few places suffer more from the groupthink mentality than schools, which is a great irony given their near constant statements about expanding minds and the search for knowledge.

[Darrell KSR]

I think I agree with you guys. But it's not that far from a smallish derringer, either, and same size as a real gun (or larger).

http://wjar.images.worldnow.com/images/23624081_BG1.jpg

(I deleted two other small pistols -- a semi-automatic and a revolver, to compare apples to apples. Check this out below.)

Here's a derringer-type on a keychain. Looks toyish. It's smaller than the kid's (it's 1.57 inches). It's real, too. (By the way -- it has the "flare adapter" on it. It is smaller without it, of course. (Check out the Youtube video on it and where to buy it below).

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQssWGE6w4HKliQFm90T3iXmrDuEsSzG OdC9ebAh8qgWvIErtU1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOYQNYxTAU8

[CitizenBBN]

At 2 inches it's big enough to be a working gun, I've sold guns that size or close, but it wasn't one. I don't have a problem with a rule against even toy guns, though it won't do anything to improve safety it can make the job of security easier, and 3 days isn't some crazy extreme like a year we saw in the other case, but it was still just a toy keychain gun.

I will say that's a more realistic gun than I expected, I can at least see why it drew attention, but being a toy I don't think it rises to the level of suspension. Part of that is I have long been uncomfortable with suspensions as punishment. If a kid created a danger at school and should be removed then remove him, but I don't like suspensions just for misdeeds. At my school you got the equivalent of KP duty, cleaning the school, but I imagine at most public schools these days they may be unable to use those methods. It may be all that's left to them.

But he didn't create a danger to anyone, just some confusion about whether he did. Probably deserves something but in my time in school I did things and got in trouble and never got a suspension. this doesn't rise to that level other than within the context of the current gun mania going on with school administrators.

Given it's in Rhode Island I'm more surprised an arcade would give away a toy gun than I am surprised by anything else in the story. In Kentucky sure, but not Rhode Island.

[Doc]

If you look hard enough and use your imagination, a mans "junk" looks like a gun. Kick every boy out of school!


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[jazyd]

At some point, schools need to use a little common sense, I realize what I just said. Its a toy, nothing more. All they had to do was tell the boy it would be in the office and he could pick it up when he left or even have his parents come get and please do not bring it to school again as it might frighten someone.

Want to know why I am against more funding for schools,....in Miss something 64 cents of every dollar goes to education...and so many of them I wouldn't hire for my little store.