Gun Control 2013: For Bringing Toy Gun to School, 5-Year-Old Gets 2-Hour Interrogation and Wet Pants
Honestly, this could be a cry for help from a boy in a domestic violence situation—BUT such treatment doesn’t qualify under “reasonable gun laws”.
It’s a situation that calls for a social worker to talk to the child, not the principle to interrogate him.
That line was crossed this Wednesday in an elementary school in Calvert County, Maryland.
On the morning school-bus ride, a five-year-old student pulled out his toy cap gun that he’d snuck into his bookbag. When the bus got to school, the boy was immediately taken to the principal’s office, where he was accused of pointing the gun at someone and pretending to shoot (For the record, the boy denies pretending to shoot anyone and insists he was just showing the gun to a friend). However, the principal and school officials interrogated the young boy for two straight hours without notifying his parents. In fact, the grilling was so intense that the boy “uncharacteristically” wet his pants, and his mother did not hear of any of this until she was informed that her son was receiving a 10-day suspension, meaning he won’t be able to finish out the rest of this school year.
Though this incident created a national backlash and the mother is now appealing her son’s suspension, the principal stands by his handling of the situation. In fact, he stated that if the gun had been loaded with caps (that imitate the noise and smoke of gunshots but do not shoot anything out), it would have been considered an “explosive” and he would’ve called the police.
That reaction is, to put it mildly, over the top.
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