R.I.P. Scout26
Arrested for what??$hit like this is why the system has such a crayy reputation, and those who work in it even worse.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
I weep for our society where the mere depiction of an inanimate object that someone used to do something bad is considered evil thought crime.
But it does happen. Consider the swastika post 1930's.
Yes, but such things were considered an offense against societal standards and good taste. Now they are criminal offenses.
Swastika's are symbols, which definitionally have implicit meanings. They are visual representations of ideas, not a neutral inanimate object.
An NRA shirt is not a neutral inanimate object. It's a symbol that stands for something.
For many people, and many teachers, AR15's are the same sort of symbol. The fact that that makes them bigoted and ignorant doesn't change they're emotional investment in the "evil assault weapon" idea.
Oh, I don't disagree. But sometimes that concept gets lost in the shuffle. It would be as if you wore a t-shirt to school or the office depicting a flaming cross as a celebration of your Southern Scots-Irish ancestral rites. I suspect most people would draw a different interpretation, though.
Probably won't happen but I'd sure like to see the NRA ACLU step up on this one.
I wore a Huldra Arms T-shirt in Jamaica (not a very pro-gun country) and got a lot of compliments on it
"obstruction and disturbing the education process"
And some teachers would undoubtedly find a pro-Jewish shirt just as offensive. Those people can suck it.