Not for nothing, and I certainly would hate to be responsible for stifling a young man's creative aspirations, but if that is supposed to be a gun in that picture, then what I leave in the toilet after a large meal makes me a bloody Picasso. I mean that picture looks like a government housing project with a dead crack addict on the front sidewalk if you ask me. Doesn't look like any gun I have ever fired, thats for sure.

Last year, they expelled the entire penmanship class for printing the letter "L" because it looked like they were drawing an arsenal.

Breaking news from Agence-France Presse: Two drawings of bullets were thrown at the house of an old, frail Iraqi woman by evil cowboy Americans!

Bastards.

I WAS gonna say lots of boys haven't drawn guns, and there's nothing wrong with that. I thought you meant removing a gun from its resting place when you said drawn.

A pistol whipping would be poetic justice, yes.

Indeed, the gun is so life-like that it seems to jump right off the paper!

Wanna know what I drew when I was around his age, maybe younger? Bad accidents happening to planes, with injured people jumping out, lucky schmucks who activated parachutes, and people who were still stuck inside. Oh . . . and the planes were usually on fire.
Yes, I am female. I don't know if there was or is anything wrong with me.

nope. you're just cool.

I too remember drawing pictures in about 2nd-3rd grade: mine had little stick figure nazis being erradicated by little stick figure American soldiers and tanks. Replete with guns, tanks, burning and burning-crashed planes.

In today's world, I don't think I could have made it through school without suspension.

you know what i drew just now; a picture of me with my foot up an idiot liberal school administrator's ass.

Hell, I an 47 years old and I still like pics of guns. Drawn, photo's... who cares. PSsst... even worse I OWN a gun. Don't tell anyone...

The M1A1 Garand IS a piece of freaking art!

My father was an amateur Gunsmith until he got his License in his late 40's. He'd been building guns since his early teens.

I was taught Gun Safety from the time I was old enough to talk. Some of my earliest "ass whoopin's " ("beatings," as the liberals would label them, today...) were for even thinking about going near his guns without his permission and his presence.

I was "hunting" with him at age 5, carrying an unloaded .22, and being taught to handle it as though it were loaded. At age 6 I was taught to fire it on a Home Made Range w/sand filled Backstop. By age 7, I was dead on w/ a .22...

Now, Imagine a 1st or 2nd grader, today, telling a teacher, "My daddy made my gun and I can shoot it almost as well as he can..."

That's why "drawn a gun" took on a whole different meaning when I first saw it...

I never drew a gun when I was that age. I was too busy shooting real guns and having lizard races. We'd tie a firecracker to a couple of lizards, draw a line on the ground, and see which one would get to the finish line first before blowing up.

What can I say, we didn't have video games so we made our own fun.

I'm guessing if the boy drew a picture of the teacher kissing his same-sex partner that would be okay, though.

Can you just hear what old Slim Pickins would have said about this?

"Well, shooot. If ma teechers HADN'T a seen me draw them gun pitures, they'd a pretty near whomped ma butt and sent me a runnin' to that there principals office."

(Those of you under 40 won't know him, probably.)

Hell, I drew pictures of guns when I was little.... and I'm a girl.

Our son has mock battles with imaginary and play guns, grenades, explosives, and tanks in our backyard all the time. We bought him his own little kid Army wear. He loves going to gun shows and Army surplus stores with us. I am sure the local "day jail" attendants (aka teachers) would assume he was disfunctional. Thank God he is home schooled.

Frank, the other day I saw 'proof' on an idiots website that Sarah K is really the IMAO T-Shirt Babe. I know this is not true because Sarah K responded to a comment I made asking her, that she is not the IMAO T-Shirt Babe.

Just thought you should know.

If anyone should be suspended, it's that high school's art teacher. Imagine this kid drawing a flintlock...

WOW! By the time I was 13, you could tell the difference b/w the Berettas, Glocks, H&K's, and 1911's that I drew. I had a lot of practice since school is soooo dumbed-down and easy these days (thanks to the left wing). I eventually progressed to M1's, M4's, G36's, M60's...you know, the stuff dreams are made of, and yes KeithP, the Garand IS a piece of art.
I guess it's good that they nipped this in the bud though; he might have followed in my footsteps and become a liberal's worste nightmare: a well educated, well armed, Christian conservative...THAT STILL DRAWS GUNS.

But was that even the kid's drawing shown there? KPHO had a much different picture up showing something much different, and much less gun-like than that. I smell a rat.

YOU need to be pistol whipped.

j/k luv u lots, bai.

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At that age myself and my school friends had created an entire country devoted to fascist ideals and guns, tanks, airplanes, battleships, etc were drawn as part of that. Not to mention the boot camps the supposed recruits were subjected to were crazy.

Liberalism is a disease.

I've been listening to this shameful incident for days. I just prayed our stupidity wouldn't make national news. My once Red State is becoming a dark shade of Purple. Days like these, you want to climb into a bell tower and take a few hippies out with a high-powered rifle. My teeth hurt so much from grinding them at the rampant stupidity.

Several years ago, my eighth grader got called into the office for a chat with her guidance counselor, and it was because she wrote the following words:

Verb = action which was unfortunately followed by the following lyrics from the most annoying musical, Chicago:

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun
for the gun.

understandable. understandable
Yes, it's perfectly understandable
Comprehensible. Comprehensible
Not a bit reprehensible
It's so defensible!

I'd always told Mary that when you have a really annoying catchy tune in your head, the best way to make as many people suffer with you is to sing it out loud and share the madness...but NO, she didn't listen to ME, and she simply wrote it all down, and then tossed it in the trash after class, only to be called by the counselor to be questioned about whether she was possibly going to shoot up the school.

I'd volunteer my XD for the pistolwhipping, but I wouldn't want to stain it with hippie blood. I mean, that's what bullets are for.

What if your kid draws a sword? Is that a reason for suspension?

my 10 yr old boy thought it was a picture of a building that was side-ways. Guess we're too dumb to be liberals....

If your son has not drawn a gun, then he may be John Edwards.
Get rid of the curling iron!

Wow! If I was in school now I would be arrested and sent to prison for years. I used to draw myself personally destroying my school with explosives. Planes crashing, my versions of the attack on pearl harbor(people thought I was racist when they saw it), and WW2. I would draw half a battle and my friend would draw the other half.

These people are crazy, this kid was being a normal teenage boy. Instead of pistol whipped I think they should be beat down Halo style, and introduced to the traditional victory celebration thereof. (some of you know what I mean).

When I was a kid (highschool, 1980) all of the country boys who drove to school in their pickups had a rifle or shotgun in their racks. Targets of opportunity were high on the list of my classmates, and if a coyote crossed the road on your way in, or a hippie had fallen asleep in the ditch, or there wasa mass monkey escape from the zoo, you wanted to be prepared. Everyone parked on school property and no one ever said a word. The graduating class was about 200, and their was conservatively 50 firearms in vehicles in the parking lot on any given day.
Needless to say, had the communists launched an airborne invasion (ala Red Dawn) on my little town we would have repelled them before they ever hit downtown.

My how times have changed, and so much for the worse.

When my son was in kindergarden last year he drew a picture of a gun, cut it out and was shooting other kids in the classroom with it and I got a call from the principal. Not because he drew the gun and was shooting other kids, but because another kid took it from him and threw it in the trash, and my son called him a "son of a bitch"! Not my proudest moment as a father but that was the funniest thing ever!! I would have done the same thing. halirous!

Of our eight kids, my four started learning to shoot at age six. two of the step kids got a little later start but have caught up nicely. They start with recurve bows and bb guns. By eight they've mastered 22,s (rifle and pistol), crossbows and started on beginner compound bows. By twelve they've learned to use (and CLEAN / maintain) everything in the house. AND they've learned to use them responsibly. Needless to say we have a world class family paintball team. My sister (BIG Hillary fan) can't quite grasp the difference between teaching your children not to be victims and training kids to be killers. When this story broke she said it was people like me that had brainwashed this kid. I explained that if I had brainwashed him, it would have been a lot better artists rendition of the most powerful weapon in the UN peacekeeping arsenal. Then she called me an ass and changed the subject. I love her, I'm just glad she's to apathetic to actually vote.

Would it be ok for a youngster to learn about guns if taught by a very butch lesbian promoting the gay lifestyle at the same time? I would vote for a good pistol whipping in this case...