A local criminal lawyer I know told me he's had to defend many kids against school districts with what he calls a "no brains" as opposed to "no tolerance" policy. The kid is guilty until proven innocent and can only be defended in court, but once expelled, he's expelled. Not much legal action can do about it. In this county, there are lots of hunters, it's rural. They have police dogs go through the cars in the highschool parking lot on occasion and, of course, they'll hit on a loose shotgun shell or something. That's enough to get a kid in trouble. So, he got home from duck hunting and a shell fell out of his shell pouch he didn't see. Now, he's some kind of terrorist or something?
MY GOD people, pull your friggin' heads out from your posterior, this is TEXAS, this is a county with a population of less than 30,000 total, kids hunt, just like I did at that age.
I remember one opening day of duck season getting permission to leave class at 2PM to go hunting with a buddy. We got on my CT90, rode over to the junior college where his mom worked, got our shotguns and gear out of her trunk, then went hunting. No problems, no one freakin' out, no liberals screaming bloody murder and calling 911. We had a danged good shoot that afternoon, too, as I recall. Front blew in about noon. Colder'n hell on the bike, but we got limits.
If they ran schools then like they do now, I'd probably still be in prison.
I understand the angst over stuff like Columbine, but not every kid with a gun is a terrorist lookin' to kill his classmates, for Christ's sake! Around here, lots of kids still hunt and shoot and they generally start early. This ain't LA or NYC, it's smack in the middle of "fly over country", just a tad south. We don't even have a Starbucks here. If you're scared of kids with guns, you wouldn't like it here.
