Lockdown Over Paper Gun Illustrates Zero Tolerance Insanity

“Paper Gun Leads to School Lockdown in Hartford,” NBC Connecticut reported Tuesday. A student made a crude representation of a handgun using rolled up paper and brought it to McDonough Expeditionary Learning School for sixth to eighth-graders. Unsurprisingly, considering the mentality running public schools these days, school authorities sounded the alarm for men with guns to come save them.

“Everyone is safe and the lockdown has been lifted, according to police,” NBC advised. How the police could assure the first part of that claim is left unexplained. We are, after all, talking about supposed adults who freaked out over the crude facsimile in the above police photograph.  Who could see that and feel justifiably threatened?

Why this even made the news tells us much. As does the ruthless “reconditioning” the poor kid can now expect to be subjected to.

So what should have been done? Barring a lot more to this story than is being told, how about this?

“Johnny, put that away and stop disrupting the class or I’m going to make you get it back from your Mom.”

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