CO 17yr student suspended for Snatpchat photo of a rifle

[railsplitter]

.....I also am concerned that two teenagers dressed up like terrorists......

My daughter's bf dressed up like Hannibal Lecter for Halloween,..... should I be concerned? LMAO

Or maybe I should go about my own business?

 

[Dale Gribble]

I mean, if y'all really want to equate children acting a fool for attention and to scare their peers into thinking they're gonna get ganked to revolutionaries fighting against a tyrannical state, and want to equate the American revolution to brats acting like gangbanger thugs, you go right on ahead.

..examples of street thuggery and provocative cyberbullying the moment they have a weapon in hand as well, just like these two.

There you go again with the assumptions.

Was there a statement accompanying the photo that suggested these two were looking to bully and/or commit act(s) of violence against anyone?

..I’m glad to know you think so little of our forefathers actively taking up arms against an overreaching, oppressive monarch to found our nation...

Damn...you got me; I let my disdain for those fellows show itself again, just like I’ve done numerous times on here before. If you do a search of the forums, you’ll probably find I have a well-established pattern of trashing them and what they did....anyone who has been on here for any length of time has already come to that conclusion...that I’m a “state” man, through and through.

 

[HMP]

My daughter's bf dressed up like Hannibal Lecter for Halloween,..... should I be concerned? LMAO

You should be, cause he's planning on eating someone that night

 

[HMP]

PS - We had our interest meeting for the shooting team at school, had over 30 kids come get information. Thirty that werent already involved!

 

[SPST]

You should be, cause he's planning on eating someone that night

That's the first thing I thought when I read it too!

 

[railsplitter]

You should be, cause he's planning on eating someone that night

LMFAO

 

[Gnash.Hyena]

Sure. Fine. It's just a costume. Let's go with that.

 

[Dale Gribble]

https://reason.com/2019/10/24/color...threatening-gun-photo-with-her-older-brother/

A tongue-in-cheek post from a Colorado teen about a trip to a shooting range got her suspended from high school.

On Oct. 11, Endeavor Academy, a public school in Centennial, Colo., suspended 17-year-old senior Alexandria Keyes for five days after she posted a picture of herself and her older brother on the social media app Snapchat. The two are shown holding guns and the photo is captioned, "Me and my legal guardian are going to the gun range to practice gun safety and responsible gun ownership while getting better so we can protect ourselves while also using the First Amendment to practice our Second Amendment."

The picture in question depicts Alexandria and her older brother, an Army veteran, wearing shemaghs (scarves popular in Middle Eastern cultures that are also used by some members of the military) posing in front of a Confederate flag and flipping off the camera while holding guns. In a statement to The Gun Writer, Kelley Moyer, Alexandria's mother, said that the shemagh her daughter wore was a gift from her brother.

Alexandria tells Reason that she never anticipated being suspended for taking the picture.

"Guns are huge in my family, they're normal to us," Alexandria said. It was a big surprise to her and her mother when police showed up at their house to investigate her as a potential threat.



ISIS wannabe thugs..that’s all they are.

 

[11B CIB]

I am suggesting that these kids are being obnoxious brats and need to have their asses beat for dressing up as terrorists and somehow thinking that's socially acceptable.

You’re right, US military (and coalition forces) NEVER wore shemaghs overseas. Only the bad guys

Those arent keffiyahs signifying having made (or not having made) the Hadj based on the color scheme or any other head wrap signifying terrorism.

And they’re covering their faces (in a poor attempt) to prevent this from going the direction it did: which is all over the news etc and having people like you blow it way out of proportion

 

[Gnash.Hyena]

https://reason.com/2019/10/24/color...threatening-gun-photo-with-her-older-brother/

A tongue-in-cheek post from a Colorado teen about a trip to a shooting range got her suspended from high school.

On Oct. 11, Endeavor Academy, a public school in Centennial, Colo., suspended 17-year-old senior Alexandria Keyes for five days after she posted a picture of herself and her older brother on the social media app Snapchat. The two are shown holding guns and the photo is captioned, "Me and my legal guardian are going to the gun range to practice gun safety and responsible gun ownership while getting better so we can protect ourselves while also using the First Amendment to practice our Second Amendment."

The picture in question depicts Alexandria and her older brother, an Army veteran, wearing shemaghs (scarves popular in Middle Eastern cultures that are also used by some members of the military) posing in front of a Confederate flag and flipping off the camera while holding guns. In a statement to The Gun Writer, Kelley Moyer, Alexandria's mother, said that the shemagh her daughter wore was a gift from her brother.

Alexandria tells Reason that she never anticipated being suspended for taking the picture.

"Guns are huge in my family, they're normal to us," Alexandria said. It was a big surprise to her and her mother when police showed up at their house to investigate her as a potential threat.



ISIS wannabe thugs..that’s all they are.

Okay, cool. They're not ISIS wannabe thugs then. Next time you want to change my mind, post the original source material first. Now that I see the full story I support what the kids are *doing*, even if I think the middle finger is out of place and derpy. The shemagh is cute and fun if it's a gift from her brother, and it sounds like they understand the importance of range safety. All my concerns about the kids are gone, and if that's the case it was all just a terrible misunderstanding, and I'm sorry for that. No, they shouldn't be suspended for what's been presented here, and I hope they will continue to go to the range and get the practice they say they're getting.

 

[railsplitter]

......Now that I see the full story I support what the kids are *doing*, even if I think the middle finger is out of place and derpy......

Well I'm sure they appreciate your approval of them exercising their 1st amendment rights.

 

[Dale Gribble]

Okay, cool. They're not ISIS wannabe thugs then. Next time you want to change my mind, post the original source material first. Now that I see the full story I support what the kids are *doing*, even if I think the middle finger is out of place and derpy. The shemagh is cute and fun if it's a gift from her brother, and it sounds like they understand the importance of range safety. All my concerns about the kids are gone, and if that's the case it was all just a terrible misunderstanding, and I'm sorry for that. No, they shouldn't be suspended for what's been presented here, and I hope they will continue to go to the range and get the practice they say they're getting.

Just found it myself. If I’d of had the links/story, I would’ve posted it with the comments I made earlier. It was probably there for the taking, but I didn’t do a good enough job of research before posting...my apologies.

 

[Friday]

I dunno..I really don't think there's any malicious intent, other than a bit of bad-ass attemptery. More of a look-at-us rather than a look at what we're gonna do.
To me it comes off more like just a stupid picture a couple of kids took. I've found this to be entirely normal. Of all the selfies I've ever seen kids take, the unusual part is when they show you a good one.