Friday, April 5, 2013

N.Y. Man Has Gun License Suspended For 8 Years Over Something His 10 Year Old Son Said

AUTHOR Bookworm
Every time you think you’ve seen it all at American public schools, it gets worse. I mean, it didn’t seem as if it could get worse than schools suspending or otherwise punishing the boy who chewed his pastry, into a gun shape, the 5-year-old girl who talk about her “Hello Kitty” bubble-blowing gun, or the exemplary young man who was almost suspended for bringing a photograph of his BB gun to school. Now, though, in an event eerily similar to the New Jersey man whose home was raided because of his son’s Facebook picture, or the Mom whose guns were confiscated for reading the Constitution at a public meeting, school tentacles are reaching into parent’s homes. School officials and police in Commack, New York, wildly overreacted to a 10-year-old boy’s mere mention of toy guns, setting into motion a chain of events that saw police confiscate all of the father’s legal weapons and suspend his pistol license for as many as eight years.
It all began on March 1, when John Mayer sent his 10-year-old son to Pines Elementary School. Later that same day, a school official called to tell him that his son and two other boys were heard talking to each other about going to another boy’s house with a water gun, a paint gun, and a BB gun. The boys were toying with ways to even the score against some boys who had been involved in a shoving match the day before that did not involve Mayer’s son

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