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...and possibly facing expulsion.

AURORA COLORADO - A local school district has suspended a member of the Young Marines youth leadership group after students saw drill props in her vehicle.



Marie Morrow, a 17-year-old senior at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, is serving a 10-day suspension. Her punishment could be extended at an expulsion hearing later this month.

Morrow is a student leader in the Douglas County Young Marines, a group dedicated to teaching leadership and life skills.

Cherry Creek Schools suspended Morrow after other students reported seeing guns inside her SUV, which was parked outside school while she was in class.

The school also called police, who seized the three drill team guns made of wood, plastic and duct tape. Police told Morrow to claim them in time for her after-school drill practice off-campus.

School administrators, however, were less understanding. The guns were declared "authentic representations of genuine weapons," triggering a mandatory expulsion statute in state law.
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http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=109380&catid=339



Yup,......common sense is stone cold dead.........


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wow... first shooting clubs were given the boot, and now people going into the military arent allowed to drill with something close to what they'll actually be using...
 
The Young Marines has zero affiliation with ROTC. It is similar to scouting and is generally aimed at " at risk" youth.

With regard to the story zero tolerance laws take all common sense out of the equation, the mandated penalty would have been the same had there been a water pistol in the car
 
reminds me of a movie making class in high school, we couldnt FILM OFF PROPERTY as in in our own backyards with replica firearms in a scene that didnt have anything violent (ie a scene with a police officer showing equipment for a news story) HOWEVER a girl was allowed to smoke on school property which if i am not mistaken is illegal, for part of her film and two kids were allowed to have a sword fight with REAL SWORDS (though not on school property) and because i mentioned replica firearms the teacher of that class apparently decided to call my mother to tell her she was going to have the vice principal follow me and watch me because i mentioned the existence of firearms. yeah, no joke. Moral of the story is the average anti-gun nut is a moron.
 
I hope none of you astronomy teachers have a picture of the Pistol Nebula in your car.
nebula.jpg


(I don't see the "pistol," but apparently when it was first discovered, they thought it looked like a pistol.)

More:
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/pistol.htm

I figure if they can wet their pants over a couple of dummy guns...

Terry, 230RN
 
I just wish that the there were more followup stories along the line of 'After incident XYZ, inflicting unsuitable punishment on a student for no real reason at all, Principal A and Teacher B have been laid off'.
 
I just wish that the there were more followup stories along the line of 'After incident XYZ, inflicting unsuitable punishment on a student for no real reason at all, Principal A and Teacher B have been laid off'.
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yeah but in the real world true justice is rarely served, and common sense is a rare delicacy
 
My God, what is happening to our country.

My friend was in the Color Guard back in the early 80's. She did the white gun drills, part of the school curriculum.

Then there's the report of the kid DRAWING a gun on paper and getting punished in some way.
 
I would be inclined to write to their local newspaper editor, but first I would have to cool down in order to use the kind of language they could print.
 
My friend was in the Color Guard back in the early 80's. She did the white gun drills, part of the school curriculum.
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That's racist, and I am reporting you to the PC police, who will force you to undergo sensitivity training, comrade.
 
I saw my small town (4,000) turn away a Civil Air Patrol cadet color guard invited to present the colors at the local Basketball game because they were carrying Parris Drill rifles.

The school officials claimed they allowed no color guard to carry, even the Legion. They kept up this lie even after video proved them liars before the school board. Board still backed them.

This crap qwon't start until we start voting in real Americans into office instead of this Left wing scum we're allowing in now.
 
You guys heard it here, straight from the mouth of a certified, contracted teacher:

Zero Tolerance = Zero Brains.

Not all of us in the (one time honorable) profession have rectal-cranial inversion disease.
 
Probably should've left the "guns" at home. But that is an extremely stiff punishment. They are trying to make an example of the student rather than serve to end any "threat". A warning to keep the "guns" off of school grounds would've been more than enough.
 
The high school down my street has a ROTC program. I see them in the parking lot twirling their rifles all the time.

My ROTC group in high school was the same way. Hell we had the rifles in class. Ours were de-militarized M14s....... at least the ones used for color guard.

So its not like this all over. I graduated in 02.
 
I am 32 and I remember the white rifles in high school. What do they use now - poodles?
 
I think they still use white rifles in color guard, at least at my HS (haven't checked in 8 years though). They're just pieces of wood.
 
I went to a state school in the UK we had a cadet armoury similar to ROTC 25 .303 N04s two Bren guns some .22s and some air rifles all fully functional.
now they have similar number of single shot sa80s probably the worst rifle ever made soon to be replaced by a semi auto version of the A2 and four LSW's.
But then theres not been any students trying to shoot up a school in the UK not that wooden drill aids are much of a threat :banghead:
 
Do you remember the school shooting in Pearl, Miss. a few years ago? The punk came in school with a rifle IIRC and started shooting. The asst. principal ran out to his F-150 that was parked on the street, not on school property,
retrieved his Colt Officers model .45 ACP and confronted the punk. The perp
fled to his car and tried to get out the parking lot but the asst. principal blocked the driveway. Punk wrecked and was held till cops got there. Cops said asst. prin. probably saved many lives. P.C. squad in town wanted to charge the asst. prin. with carrying a loaded gun onto school grounds. :banghead:
The only thing you can't make illegal is P.C. stupidity!!!
 
I was in NROTC three years ago, and we had demilled Garands on-campus. The drill team used to stand right outside Reynolds practicing in the middle of the day... which, as I recall, elicited some freakouts right after the VT killings.

We also has rubber M16s that we'd PT with from time to time. And then there were the swords. Man, you want to talk about getting some odd looks, all you have to do is get on a campus bus carrying a sword.

:)
 
The Young Marines has zero affiliation with ROTC. It is similar to scouting and is generally aimed at " at risk" youth.
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At risk youth? Maybe where you live thats what it is for, but not here. My VFW Post supports a group, all fine upstanding young adults. Hopefully none see your comments.
 
I believe the good people of this nation are being programed to see all "guns" as dangerous and evil (along with a lot of other programming going on out there...). Something along the lines of "When guns are outlawed, one those associated with crime will have guns". Hence the "commen sense" gun laws that exist in some parts of this country. The first step in keeping our right to keep and bear arms, all arms, is to change the perception of those who only see guns on TV as an instrument of crime.
 
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