You may think this cartoon is a joke, but it isn't. According to Larry Pratt in the Jan 31, 2000 edition of ‘‘The Gun Owners’’, and reported in the December 6, 1999 edition of Time magazine, MeShelle Locke, 16, of Lacey, Washington – a National Honor Society student -- was kidding around with a boy in her English class at North Thurston High School in early November. When he made some wisecrack to the teacher, Locke looked at him, made a gun with her thumb and index finger, and said, ‘‘Bang.’’
The school principal called the police, who came out and read MeShelle her Miranda rights (although he didn’t actually arrest her). Then she was expelled from school for four days.
The same issue of Time magazine also reported that a seven-year-old boy in Cahokia, Illinois, was suspended for having a nail-clipper in class.
Do you think perhaps gun-control insanity has gotten out of hand?
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