Most schools have a no-tolerance policy when it comes to weapons in school, but an incident in Ionia County has some wondering just where to draw the line. A six year old got suspended for a gesture.
via WLNS TV 6 Lansing Jackson Michigan News and Weather

More zero-tolerance idiocy. Actually, it’s not even zero-tolerance idiocy. It’s just plain old idiocy. Yes, fingers are deadly weapons! Don’t point at someone and say “Pew! Pew!” You might hurt them!!!

Jammer says she doesn’t know where her six old got the gesture from. She feels it’s a part his imagination, which is something she can’t control, but can try to correct.

Children (and adults) have been making the “gun gesture” with their fingers since –most likely– there have been guns in existence. I’d say her son got the gesture from general human culture. And as far as needing to correct her son’s imagination, no she does not need to do any such thing. It’s the school that needs correcting, because it’s pretty obvious to me that he was not, as the school insists, playing with guns.

We are raising a generation of pussies. Sorry, that had to be said. If any child was actually made uncomfortable by a classmate pointing their finger at them and saying “Pew! Pew! they are, in fact, pussies … and they will never survive out here in the real world. Being pointed at will be the least of their worries. Seriously.