Texas lawmaker files 'Pop Tart gun' bill

[winters]

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texa ... 930593.php

seriously? our education system is that messed up?

[Keith B]

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texa ... 930593.php

seriously? our education system is that messed up?

Yes it is. I support this one.

[brhalltx]

Wow. Who'd think a Democrat would file a bill like that.

[winters]

Wow. Who'd think a Democrat would file a bill like that.

I think its ridiculous we have now come full circle into stupidity to need such a law. I guess pens, pencils, scissors never hurt anyone? ofcourse my mother teaches nursing and some of the things they come up with are nuts and she is talking about adults.

[jmra]

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texa ... 930593.php

seriously? our education system is that messed up?

Yes it is. I support this one.

[K.Mooneyham]

What irritates me is that little kids keep getting in trouble around this nation for making "finger guns" or drawing guns. I'm not talking about some older teen making a "finger gun" and accompanying it with a serious violent threat, but just little kids playing. Well, I guess I'm not the only one, at least here in Texas, anyway.

[Dave2]

What's the penalty for attempting to punish a kid for chewing their food into a gun-like shape? I've become increasingly convinced that we won't actually solve the problem until we stop employing the problem people.

[Charles L. Cotton]

What's the penalty for attempting to punish a kid for chewing their food into a gun-like shape? I've become increasingly convinced that we won't actually solve the problem until we stop employing the problem people.

Anyone who would discipline a kid for "offenses" coming within the scope of the Bill should be fired and lose their teaching credentials. I'd like a little jail time thrown in too, but some would say I'm going overboard.

Chas.

[mojo84]

What's the penalty for attempting to punish a kid for chewing their food into a gun-like shape? I've become increasingly convinced that we won't actually solve the problem until we stop employing the problem people.

Anyone who would discipline a kid for "offenses" coming within the scope of the Bill should be fired and lose their teaching credentials. I'd like a little jail time thrown in too, but some would say I'm going overboard.

Chas.

Sometimes overboard is good.

[rbwhatever1]

Overboard about 500 miles out would be nice.

[joe817]

What's the penalty for attempting to punish a kid for chewing their food into a gun-like shape? I've become increasingly convinced that we won't actually solve the problem until we stop employing the problem people.

Anyone who would discipline a kid for "offenses" coming within the scope of the Bill should be fired and lose their teaching credentials. I'd like a little jail time thrown in too, but some would say I'm going overboard.

Chas.

Not me! &

[Jumping Frog]

...I'd like a little jail time thrown in too, but some would say I'm going overboard.

Aw heck, let's just hang 'em high.

[RetNavy]

Guess my school ISD is a more tolerant than most..... I packed my pre-k daughter lunch the other day and put in plasticware pkg that you get for take outs..... it included plastic knife....

i didnt get a frantic call from the school saying my kid had a taboo weapon...
no screaming cop cars running code to the school.....
no kids needed therapy for seeing a knife


didnt realize it til the next morning that i had put a "weapon" in a 4 year old's lunch bag....
(SA not to awake with only one cup of coffee)

just going have to make sure nothing like that happens again.... dont need Mothers Against Plastic Knives and Pop-Tart Guns irrate at me

[TomsTXCHL]

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texa ... 930593.php

seriously? our education system is that messed up?

More proof that the world is coming to an end. Get ready folks.

When I was a kid there were very few (any?) playtime activities that didn't involve gunplay. If it wasn't "Cowboys and Indians" it was WWII combat (mostly krauts notsomuch japs iirc). My favorite weapon was a croquet mallet because it could be thrown-down and jumped-on and run-over and still always fired unlimited rounds with zero failures. And I turned-out all right--I don't even step on bugs.





While Hollywood and the videogame manufacturers have been turning our kids into dazed/confused/stayathome monsters, our Fed/State/Local Governments have either been taxing hard-working Parents such that they can hardly find time to know what their kids are doing much less provide positive guidance for them, or Subsidizing inactivity, laziness, low self-esteem, you-name-it with welfare perpetuating a downward spiral for the poor.

[LDB415]

I like this one. I like HB161, HB150, HB138, HB97, and HB113 and don't like HB76, HB124, HB130, and HJR34.