Steve Watson
It is now a daily occurrence for school officials somewhere in America to freak out, call the police, and discipline students over anything vaguely resembling a gun. On Monday it was the turn of Malden High School in Massachusetts. A teacher at the school reportedly glimpsed sight of a ?gun?, and alerted police who rushed to the scene only to discover a neon water pistol.
?A teacher reported hearing a clicking motion, and thought a student may have had a gun,? Superintendent David DeRuosi told reporters.
After school was dismissed, police located the harmless toy and filed a report, according to Malden Police Lt. Det. Marc Gatcomb.
??no persons were threatened that we know of,? Gatcomb wrote in an email.
Any rational person may have concluded that that was the end of the matter. Not in America 2.0, however.
School officials are now on the hunt for the culprit who brought the water pistol on to school grounds.
?You can?t take any of that stuff lightly today,? Superintendent DeRuosi said, adding that state of the art surveillance cameras that were recently installed as part of the school?s renovation, will help track down the student responsible, and allow officials to hold him or her responsible for such a heinous action.
Once apprehended, the student will face internal disciplinary action for the incident, school officials said.
As we have seen over the past few weeks, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, these kind of ridiculous knee jerk overreactions at schools are now a daily occurrence.
Earlier this month, a 7-year-old boy from Maryland?was suspended for unintentionally biting his pop tart into the shape of a gun. The incident was the latest in a long line of ridiculous suspensions and disciplinary actions against students for anything even remotely gun related. It prompted?Maryland?Sen. J. B. Jennings to introduce a bill to stop such idiotic over reactions being played out over and over again in schools.
And boy are they being played out.
Last week a?third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with aplastic toy soldier, holding a gun, on top of it.
A ten year old Virginia boy who was arrested for taking a plastic toy gun to school is now facing apotentially permanent criminal record over the incident.
A student in Florence, Arizona was recently suspended because he had a?picture of a gun on his computer.
A six-year-old kindergartner in South Carolina?was suspended for taking a small transparent plastic toy gun to school for a show and tell.
A day before that incident we reported on the five-year-old in Massachusetts who faced suspension for?building a small toy gun out of lego bricks and play-shooting his classmates.
We also?reported on an incident that erupted when a discussion between two children about a toy nerf gun caused a lockdown and a massive armed police response at two elementary schools in the Bronx.
In another incident, a Long Island high school was also?placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.
In yet another recent incident, a five-year-old girl was suspended after a three hour grilling, and described as a "terroristic threat" when she?brought a pink bubble gun to school.
A South Philadelphia elementary student was searched in front of classmates and threatened with arrest after she?mistakenly brought a "paper gun" to school.
A 6-year-old boy?was suspended from his elementary school, also in Maryland, for making a gun gesture with his hand and saying "pow".
Days after that incident, another two 6-year-olds in Maryland?were suspended for pointing their fingers into gun shapes while playing "cops and robbers" with each other.
In Oklahoma, a five-year-old boy was also?recently suspended for making a gun gesture with his hand.
And finally, a 13-year-old Middle School seventh grade student in Pennsylvania was?also suspended for the same hand gesture.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones? Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
