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8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt
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Are you really saying that only humans can be violent? Please retract your statement for your own dignity.
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For the record, I don't agree that a picture of a gun constitutes a "display of violence".
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Yes, and if you remove the guns from the example, and replace them with rocks or hammers....and the violence would remain.
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Good point.
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You can use language to sort this out with in the context of what we're talking about:
"I am feeling gun" - doesn't make sense "I am feeling hammer" doesn't make sense "I am feeling table" Doesn't make sense "I am feeling violent" Makes sense "I am feeling cruel" Makes sense |
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I would be interested to see the rest of the information about this case. If the kid (regardless of what his father said) did get aggressive during the debate with his teacher, then yeah, suspend him. So far, we don't know.
That said, there's another issue here. We should imagine if his t-shirt had no letters, or no image, and that will tell us which is the real issue, the image of the hunting rifle, or the pro-NRA political statement. I can understand it more if it's the former, although if that's the case they should not suspend the kid but instead amend their school handbook. If it's the latter, they should either ban political statements of all kinds from school clothes, or allow them from both sides. Superintendent Me would amend the handbook to outlaw the images of firearms or political statements from school clothes, and send a letter out to all kids and parents explaining that the only reason the kid is having his suspension lifted is because it wasn't spelled out in the handbook, and explain the limits and why they are there. Problem solved. Now back to Ethan Frome. |
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Similarly, a tornado is a "violent storm." It doesn't matter whether it's good or bad. All that matters is that it is destructive and causes death. The person who invented a gun thought to himself, "I need something that is better than this dagger/stick. I need something that is going to quickly kill my enemies and my prey. I need something that can be really destructive." A gun is inherently violent. This is not saying that humans don't do violence using a gun (or another type of instrument). You're not going to convince me that a gun is not inherently violent. And I might not convince you that it is. That's fine. |
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