Teacher on leave for rifle photo

I can’t wait to see the lawsuit on this one. First and Second Amendment here… I’d say that the teachers union will have a field day with this one, but since she’s in her first year there, the unions won’t even give her the time of day even though they take full dues out of her pay and supposedly represent her.

“School parent Chad Van Loo said the photograph sends the wrong message.”

What, that as American citizens we are allowed to bear arms? It’s not like she was pointing the gun at a picture of a student or coworker.

If a student had pictures of himself/herself holding a hunting rifle, they would probably call in district psychologists to determine if this child was a threat to themselves or the school. I guess we now have to hold teachers to this same ridiculous standard. But as Obi pointed out above, a little common sense says just make your profile ‘private.’ Especially so you don’t look like an assassin.

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I certainly don’t have a problem with the teacher carrying firearms or being photographed holding (or firing) them. Pointing the rifle at the camera is poor gun safety, though. Had that been the reason for the suspension, I would have considered the action to be a bit draconian, but defensible.

In this case, though….

Ace of Spades had your “awwww” moment. A video of a little Belgian kid in what was a good pass for British battle dress. Kilt, knee socks, gabardine blouse with stripes, and a tam. He was waiting for a Canadian contingent to pass in a memorial ceremony. When they did, he snapped a really good brit-style salute. The Canucks gave him a return salute and “eyes right”.
Worth searching out from a week or so back.
Some of the commenters observed that, had that been an American kid he’d have been detained for mandatory psychiatric testing and expelled as a threat.

“hoplophobic” indeed. Good point.

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity”
Sigmund Freud

And this woman has done exactly WHAT that was illegal?

The plain fact is, most of urban America has a pathological fear of any firearm. I find it amazing that this woman was challenged, let alone disciplined in some manner, for exercising her First and Second Amendment rights, on her on time.

Yes, pointing a firearm at any human being — unless you mean ultimately to fire that weapon — is not acceptable. And yes, it appears this was a time-photo setup.

Well. We live in a far different, and frankly, far more worse and more hideous country than the one this kid grew up in, in the forties and fifties.

I started high school in 1957, when there was still a rifle club. Every Thursday, we could bring our own .22 rifles to school, a mentoring teacher placed them in a locked area, and we were able to shoot, learn firearms safety, and range — and military range — protocol, after shcool. Every male teacher in that high school was a WWII or Korean War vet.

The rifle club is long gone. I was the editor of the high school paper; the girl who became my wife edited the yearbook.

Today, there is no rifle club. There is no high school paper. There is no yearbook.

But there is after-school basketball and other sports, subsidized by us taxpayers, and there is a whole curriculum for unwed teenage mothers.

And the lefties and liberals and fools generally still wonder why so many people are angry, and actually hate the proposed policies of The Anointed One in the white House.

Bill