You know, in the 1980s everyone had GI Joes. Everyone played with toy guns, everyone pretended to be shooting the bad guys, everyone had planes and tanks and firepower. Heck — if you had Transformers, who didn’t have Megatron?
Fast forward to today…
He told his mother after the incident that he had “really, really” wanted to show his friend.
The mother was called by the principal at 10:50 a.m. and was told that her son had the cap gun and pretended to shoot someone on the bus. She said that both the kindergartner and his first-grade sister, sitting nearby on the bus, disputed that account.
The mother said the principal told her that if the cap gun had been loaded with caps, it would have been deemed an explosive and police would have been called in.
Thus in Calvert County, MD a 5-year old boy gets suspended for carrying a cap gun [1].
The case comes at a time of heightened sensitivity about guns in schools across the country. Locally, children in first and second grade have been disciplined for pointing their fingers like guns and for chewing a Pop-Tart-like pastry into the shape of a gun. In Pennsylvania, a 5-year-old was suspended for talking about shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun that blows soap bubbles.
These people are running your government, folks.