Churchill Calls for BB Gun Ban
Churchill calls for a BB gun ban at schools. (Hat tip: McHenry County Blog)
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A number of school districts across Illinois have banned BB guns, pellet guns and gun look-alikes, or toy guns. HB 4391 seeks to provide further support to school boards and administrators who have been left to create a mix of policies ranging from suspension to expulsion of students who bring a BB gun to school. |
While this is worthy bill. It is more important that our legislators start fixing the education provided by our public schools. That affects all the children of Illinois, not just the few injured with BB guns. How many kids bring BB guns to school and are injured with them? It is more likely that they are injured with them at home. This law does nothing more than makes people feel good.
Hmmmm…then why was this so worthy?
http://educationmatters.us/?p=340
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That was an informational article about happenings in a District schools. I am not in Springfield passing legislation. If I was I would be focusing on reforming eduacation. I guess I should have run for Churchill’s seat since he is vacating it.
Guns of any sort at a school should be immediately dealt with through discipline. It should be a given. It’s unfortunate that it requires legislation. Let the school district deal with it. Heck, the airlines are even posting signage about toy guns not being allowed now.
School gun legislation and school reform are two seperate and distinct issues. I’m not sure mixing them does anything more than help lump things into conspiracy theory-ism.
You are correct Joe. Guns of any kind should be common sense. That is why wasting time on a bill this like this is frivilous when there are more important issues to deal with.
I am not sure the conspiracy theory-ism thing comes from. I was talking about setting priorities on what is most important. The relative insignificance of BB guns as compared to the actual education of our kids is exactly what you pointed out.