A spate of recent incidents in which schoolchildren were
punished for unconscionable gun crimes triggering the hysteria of
politically correct school officials highlights the left’s increasing insanity about
guns.
A five-year-old girl from Pennsylvania was
suspended from school last month after telling a friend she was going to
shoot her with a pink toy gun that sprays hollow-point bullets bubbles.
Despite not even having the bubble gun with her at the time of the shockingly dire
threat, the kindergartener was later interrogated by school officials without
her parents present. She was ultimately
– are you sitting down for this? – labeled a “terrorist threat,” suspended for ten
days, and required to undergo psychiatric evaluation.
At about the same time, a school in Maryland suspended
two six-year-olds for making a gun gesture with their hands while playing cops-and-robbers
during recess. Two weeks before that, another six-year-old was suspended for
the same terrorist offense. This idiocy is reminiscent of an incident
last year in which a deaf three-year-old was informed by school district
officials that the signing he uses for his name too closely resembles him
waving a gun. So now he is required to spell out his name letter by letter
instead. That’ll teach him.
The insanity continues. Now a seven-year-old Colorado boy
has been suspended
for throwing a pretend grenade at a pretend box full of “evil forces” while
playing “rescue the world” at recess. Again, that’s a pretend grenade he lobbed at a pretend
box of evil (good thing he didn’t refer to it as an “axis of evil,” or the
officials might have tarred and feathered the kid and run him and his Bush-loving
parents out of town). His school maintains a list of “absolutes,” no-nos designed
to keep the schoolgrounds safe, which includes “no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary.” Because it
isn’t enough to ban students from playing
with real weapons; it must be verboten
even to think about them, even when
combating evil.
Alex Evans said he threw the fake grenade “so nothing can get out and destroy the world… I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended.” Alex, that’s because you’re not far enough along in school yet to have been sufficiently indoctrinated by your schoolteachers. In a few years, once you’ve absorbed enough Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, you will understand that we are the ones destroying the world through our imperialistic war-mongering and racist theft of natural resources. However, had you thrown an imaginary grenade at an imaginary band of violent Tea Partiers, you would have gone to the head of the class.
In an article that contains more handwringing about how guns
are poisoning our children’s minds, The
New York Times reports
on groups of “anti-toy-gun
activists” (now there’s a pathetic label)
who encourage exchanges in which toys like Hula Hoops are given to children who
turn in their toy guns – a sort of children’s version of firearm buybacks like the one that disarmed Australians back in the 90s. One of those
is the California group Alliance for Survival, whose coordinator Jerry Rubin explains, “No one is
saying that if you play with a toy gun, you’re going to grow up to be a violent
killer.” No? Then why ban toy guns? Because “the game is still the same:
pretend to kill your friends, pretend to kill your classmates.” Except that
kids aren’t pretending to kill their friends and schoolmates; they’re
pretending to kill the bad guys. Anti-toy
gun activists like Rubin can’t comprehend that this might be healthy practice
for when these children grow up and one day have to confront uncompromising evil
in the real world.
This is all part of the radical left’s determination to make
pariahs out of American gun owners, even if those guns dispense nothing more
dangerous than bubbles or a deaf boy’s name. As the totalitarian hypocrite Eric
Holder said at the
Women’s National Democratic Club years ago, American youth need to be “brainwashed”
into thinking negatively about guns. In fact, he urges kids to report gun
owners to authorities, so be careful who knows you have a legally purchased and
registered handgun, all you law-abiding moms and dads. You might find
yourselves betrayed to the government by your own children, just like during
China’s Cultural Revolution. “I’ve also asked the school board to make a part
of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message,” Holder said, “every
day, every school, at every level… We need to do this every day of the week and
really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”
This is the Attorney General who funneled guns into the
hands of Mexican drug cartels, resulting in hundreds of murders. He is part of
an administration that turns a blind eye to gun violence committed in this
country by leftists
or Islamic terrorists like the Fort Hood shooter, whose massacre was labeled
“workplace violence” (as opposed to the kindergartner who was called a terrorist threat). The Obama administration cares
about a tragedy like Sandy Hook only insofar as it is a crisis they don’t want
to let go to waste. The administration says nothing about the ongoing handgun
massacre of children in tightly gun-restricted Chicago, because it doesn’t fit
their “ban guns to save the children” narrative, and because, quite frankly,
they don’t care about saving the children anyway. What they care about is
disarming the American populace. Their obsession with gun control is about
big-government gun confiscation, not gun crime prevention, just as their
demonization of guns in the minds of schoolchildren is also about disarming
Americans and molding a generation of defenseless pacifists.
This hatred of guns is ragingly irrational. The left wants
to indoctrinate upcoming generations into believing that, in any and all
circumstances, guns – even imaginary ones; even a pointed index finger – are
the apotheosis of violent evil. And yet the Obama administration has now opened
the door to combat for women in the military. How are those women – and our
young men too, for that matter – supposed
to deal with that disconnect, when from kindergarten onward they are relentlessly
brainwashed to despise guns, and yet are now expected to go into combat and
kill the enemy?
And then of course there is the hypocrisy of left-leaning
Hollywood, which inundates young people with violent imagery and then pats
itself on the back with smugly self-righteous public
service messages calling for immediate political solutions to gun violence.
The left does not want American citizens to own guns – it’s
that simple. And they want to shape our children into a helpless citizenry that
entrusts its protection to the well-armed nanny state. They care nothing about
the right of Americans to protect their homes, schools and loved ones from home
invaders or burglars or rapists. They care least of all about our 2nd
Amendment right to bear arms to oppose a tyrannical government, because that
right stands in the way of the radical left’s tyrannical ambitions.
