WI: Veteran Day Program Banned from School because of Ceremonial Rifles

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) — For the first year, a local veterans group will not be holding a Veterans Day program at the Eau Claire area school district, the decision was because of a disagreement over firearms.

While it is stated that there are more reasons involved, the primary one is that school officials do not want any firearms, even ceremonial ones that are only able to fire blanks, to be used on the school grounds.  The executive director of administration does not cite any law for the decision.  It appears to be a desire to shape the culture in the direction the administration wishes it to go:

 ”We like to honor the veterans; we bring them in on a regular basis,” says Tim Libham, the Executive Director of Administration with the district. “There are just some conditions that we have to adhere to and the shooting of guns, even with blanks, is something we don’t feel is appropriate given society, and the concerns that we have and that the community has, on school premises.”

Mass shootings in schools seldom occurred  before the federal ban on guns in schools.   They have become far more common after the ban was put in place.    Almost  all mass shootings, as previously defined by the FBI, occur in places where ordinary citizens are forbidden from having guns, so called “gun free zones”.  The total number of mass shootings has not significantly risen, but more have occurred in schools. 

Forbidding even the ceremonial use of guns in schools shows that the purpose is one of programming, or conditioning, rather than one of safely.  Notice that Tim Leibham, above, does not say that the use is unsafe.   He says that the administration does not *feel* it is appropriate.   He is saying that it is *not* a legitimate thing to do.

This is particularly weird in Wisconsin, near Eau Claire, where there is a strong gun and hunting culture, and strong support for the military.    The administrator gives this excuse:

 Leibham says, “We’d had family and students that were uneasy, even with blanks being fired on school premise.”

But that is an insane excuse.   If someone saying that they are “uneasy” with something is a reason to ban it, then anything may be banned by the whim of any person, which essentially allows for the rule of the insane or deceptive, or both.

In fact, an administrator gets to decide what whimsical desires are legitimate, and which are not.   I am sure that teaching that the United States is a racist society make some family and students “uneasy”.   I wonder if Administrator Leibham would decide to ban that practice from the schools?   I will give long odds that banning the Veterans Day ceremony from the school makes many parents “uneasy”.   The administrator is choosing to ignore their concerns.

Banning guns from schools has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with indoctrinating children, and forcing the will of “progressives”, indoctrinated in left wing universities, on the American culture.

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