School days, school days...

Yes, the nation's children are returning to school, and with school comes....gun panic!

Student suspended for sketching gun

He drew a picture of a gun on an assignment before he turned it in. Verdict: "implied threat".

Usually these stories proliferate after a school shooting; the last crop was after Virginia Tech a few months ago. This is a bit off-season, isn't it?

I drew guns. And I'm a girl.

Visit this FARK thread to find out just how many bloodthirsty children there were, and are, in our schools. Most of us don't have Seung-Hui Cho's initiative mental illness, and penalizing everyone for drawings will not screen out the Klebolds. They'll just get more circumspect.

For some thought, we'll revisit "School House Sing-a-long".

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