Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton are dead white men who typify all that is wrong with this country. They resorted to force of arms because both of them took matters into their own hands instead of telling a teacher.
Burr was a typical primitive Caucasian male who helped to found the Democratic-Republican party and became the third Vice-President of the United States. The only reason we remember him today is that he was a New Yorker like Rudolph Giulani and Michael Bloomberg who was a Republican and a Democrat at the same time. As for his connection with vice, no more need be said. During Mr. Clinton's presidency he took care of providing his own vice.
Hamilton had a promising beginning because he was born in the West Indies and was a bastard too. (I refer not to his disposition, of course, but to his out-of-wedlock birth, which is fashionable today.) Benefitting from these early advantages he became one of the Constitution's framers, thus providing us with the document that give Mayors like Giulani and Bloomberg and Daley and intellectuals like Carolyn McCarthy, Adrian Fenty, Sarah Brady, and Paul Helmke to have something tangible to ignore. (Can you imagine the pathetic sight they would make if they had to wander the streets trying to find something to ignore?) With the new republic launched, Alexander Hamilton became our first Secretary of the Treasury, which was another good thing he did because it gives George Soros, Mike Bloomberg, Ted Kennedy, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama ambitions of various kinds and promise of the means to support those ambitions. They understand the needs of the poor and the powerless because they've read about them somewhere and, from time to time, look beneath their feet to see the little people beneath. Their are lots of little people who are beneath them.
It is a shame that Burr killed Hamilton instead of the other way around, but we can't have everything yet. (That's the fault of George W. Bush and the NRA. GOA is against them, of course.) But, in retrospect, it serves Hamilton right because he fought in the Revolution and we know now that fighting is bad. Guns are horrid.
So today we remember Burr and Hamilton--men who drew guns on one another--by punishing seven-year-old kids who draw guns.
While I live in a state not so plagued by pansy ass school administrators and parents, You can bet there would be hell to pay if I ever was called to school for such a joke!