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Kindergartner suspended for pink bubble gun.

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*EbolaBear Jan 19, 2013
If pink bubble guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have pink bubble guns


MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (AP) — A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.

Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two.

Attorney Robin Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials labeled the girl a "terrorist threat" for the bubble gun remark, made Jan. 10 as both girls waited for a school bus.

Ficker says the girl didn't even have the bubble gun with her and has never fired a real gun. He says she's "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania."
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Pennsylvania went to Obama in the last election, but PA is primarily Republican. The State legislature is 90% Red and the Governor is Red.
So this is not a case of "librulz inna norfeast".

This is a case of stupid over-reactive people going too far too fast without even thinking for a moment about their actions.

If the school has a non-violence policy that's dandy. But when does the age of the 'offender' get taken into account? When does a bubble gun get taken into account?

Suspending 5 year old girls for bubble gun remarks. Aren't all kindergartners supposed to be armed anyway? Isn't that what the NRA wants?

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~DoctorV23 Jan 22, 2013
Another link to the story: [link]
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:iconebolabear:
*EbolaBear Jan 22, 2013
"Mom says daughter was told she could go to jail over threat."

That is fucked up.
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~Bullet-Magnet Jan 22, 2013
We have no idea what the context of this event is. One of the girls could have been a witch from Oz. Soapy water is highly corrosive to the flesh of Ozite witches. A bubble gun could be considered a lethal weapon.
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*EbolaBear Jan 22, 2013
I think you're on to something
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~Bullet-Magnet Jan 22, 2013
Well duh. It's brilliant.
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:iconebolabear:
*EbolaBear Jan 23, 2013
Copyright it before I do!
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~Bullet-Magnet Jan 23, 2013
No need. In order to utilise it effectively you have to be as mad as Bullet-Magnet. Which, luckily, I am.
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*EbolaBear Jan 27, 2013
I am envious
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*Debit Jan 22, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Let me see now ......

Renovate Guantanamo to include detention facilities for imagined-to-be minor terrorists? Should a 5-year-old be subject to sleep deprivation? Water-boarding??

America: The Land of Lack of Common Sense. America: The Land of Knee-Jerk Reaction.
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*EbolaBear Jan 22, 2013
I can guarantee that there are people in the United States who think water boarding kids is fine.
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