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It's just the price of living in a heavily armed nation - that what used to be cute, isn't anymore. (AP Photo/File)

Fair warning, kids

BY Dave Ross  on January 4, 2013 @ 12:27 pm (Updated: 3:50 pm - 1/4/13 )

At Roscoe Nix Elementary in Silver Spring Maryland, Rodney Lynch, age 6, has been reprieved. But for a while he was in pretty big trouble.

On December 20th, six days after the shooting in Connecticut, he was, as he puts it, fooling around.

"I went into my desk, and I got scissors and I just pretended it was a gun," said Rodney.

That got him immediately sent to the office. He got his scolding, and went back to first grade class, but then he did it again, and finally another student, a little girl made a gun gesture at HIM and said "POW", he did it a third time.

"She did the pow sound and I just went like that! And then I got sent to the office again. I'm the one that gets suspended for just nothing," Rodney told a local news station.

The school argues it was Rodney who made the "pow" sound, and that he had been warned such things are inappropriate. That's why he was suspended the following day.

His parents are saying, come on, he's just a cute little kid.

"They're saying 'He threatened a student. He threatened to shoot a student.' He was just playing," said his dad.

His mom agreed, "I don't think the punishment fits the crime."

Rodney said his teacher even wanted to know what video games he played. Which come to think of it, would be interesting to know.

But good news for Rodney - the school system has decided to expunge his first grade rap sheet. This will not follow him for life, except for all the stories about him on the internet. It's just the price of living in a heavily armed nation - that what used to be cute, isn't anymore.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    DAVE -
    January 4, 2013 12:55 pm
    Use of that picture is despicable.

    In real life the kid had only his finger and scissors.

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  • Howdy wrote...
    "It's just the price of living in a heavily armed nation..."
    January 4, 2013 1:01 pm
    I think it's the price of living in a knee-jerk,hypersensitive, overeacting nation. The Sandy Hook massacre was not a common occurance- kids goof off all of the the time. He is only 6 years old and has very little or no understanding of what happened at Newtown.
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  • TwoTrees wrote...
    @ Howdy
    January 4, 2013 1:11 pm
    Nailed it!
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  • Robert_C wrote...
    First of all....
    January 4, 2013 1:42 pm
    Ron, I agree with you whole heartily but this is the Crusader for Common Sense don't you know and his wisdom trumps all, flawed as it usually is. Secondly, the school has no business asking what video games the kid is playing and if truly felt he was a treat contact his mother/Father and have them immediately come to the school and counsel both student/parents together. Oh! that's right, schools are nothing more than low income day care centers seems to me so the parents probably couldn't take the time to come and counsel with Rodney anyway. Anyway this is nothing more than Knee-jerk reaction from the school administration who couldn't teach common sense anymore than pigs can fly, let alone the basics of education the rest of the world seems to deem important. Here's the most likely equation (piss poor academic handling of the situation) + (piss poor parental involvement) = equals idiotic press coverage, I'm Just say'n.
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  • Robert_C wrote...
    By the way Dave.....
    January 4, 2013 1:47 pm
    is that Rodney holding the gun or are you being racist?
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    white male children must be neutered early by their state re-educators
    January 4, 2013 2:14 pm
    lest they grow up to become middle aged white men who may wax nostalgic for the days when America was in it's ascension and not in it's present decline. The liberal progressive dream cannot become reality as long as any white man retains any of the antiquated masculine notions of rugged individualism. Perhaps Obamacare can resolve the problem through chemical castration. Of course the above photo taken from AP files, represents the face of the enemy of liberal progressive ideals and is not the actual subject from the article who most likely is of a protected species.
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  • zounds wrote...
    "Perhaps Obamacare can resolve the problem through chemical castration"?
    January 4, 2013 3:42 pm
    After that post, I'd recommend it for you.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    zounds the drama queen
    January 4, 2013 3:50 pm
    yea sure you would recommend it for me, since you have already given yours up and are now one of them.
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  • RichardCheese wrote...
    .
    January 4, 2013 2:47 pm
    we used to play "guns" all the time as a kid. we had some pretty slick and real looking toys also. we shot and killed each other. to this day, i still haven't shot or killed anyone in real life, nor do i have a desire to do so.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    I Got in trouble in school for chewing gum.
    January 4, 2013 3:13 pm
    and for show and tell in the sixth grade took my single shot .22 Ithica in.. unloaded of course..
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    I agree Ronald
    January 4, 2013 3:49 pm
    With Dave's use of the photo probably not connected to the actual case. However, I can't help but look at the kid in the photo's slobbering all over himself and face with the excitement of that gun in his hand. Similar to the adults that I served with when it was time to go to the shooting range and with other males in public who can't help but gleefully show of there new toy so they can feel 10ft tall instead of 4'11 like they really are.
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  • zounds wrote...
    Or the 4 inches, sports
    January 4, 2013 3:59 pm
    A lady I used to date always said the bigger the truck, the more guns. The smaller the dick. I said I'd take her word for it.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    you dated Hillary?
    January 4, 2013 4:05 pm
    she ain't no lady.
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  • zounds wrote...
    And you have a big truck, no doubt. Lots of guns
    January 4, 2013 4:05 pm
    And a little wiener?
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    your adolescent phallic stage fantasies are creepy
    January 4, 2013 4:30 pm
    and yet amusing. The underdeveloped mind of the repressed, liberal progressive, meterosexual with Oedipus complex can be a hoot when observed from a distance.
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  • zounds wrote...
    Paul, i only quote my ex girlfriend,
    January 4, 2013 5:12 pm
    When we passed one of those ridiculous rigs, she'd hold her thumb and forefinger about two inches apart. You must have greater experience with big truck driving, gun collectors with little dicks. I'll give you the name of my ex. I might still have her number. If you want it.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    You two must have been quite the couple
    January 4, 2013 5:26 pm
    both having penis envy in common.
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  • NWGUY wrote...
    why did his girlfriend
    January 5, 2013 1:55 pm
    know how big all the truck drivers were? she must have got around a lot before she met him?
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    and now he is offering her phone number
    January 5, 2013 4:04 pm
    even though it is displayed on every truck stop bathroom stall between here and Bean Town.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    OK , zounds - after your last couple of posts, you probably ARE just
    January 4, 2013 4:59 pm
    another Lawn incarnation.

    Some of us enjoyed these posts and were quite capable of making fools of ourselves WITHOUT your help.

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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    Ron they are not Lawn
    January 5, 2013 4:55 am
    They are all CH
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Is CH reallt that smart?
    January 5, 2013 5:40 am
    Lawn's been known to use many different incarnations - often.

    Anyway, which of those entities is real?

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  • roomtemp wrote...
    Fair warning, kids...
    January 4, 2013 6:03 pm
    You're being raised into a nation of sheep ready to be fleeced and slaughtered by a central government that imagines itself to be your god. An entity with no morality of its own, yet wishes to legislate yours.

    Banned activities include... Playing cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, army, rubber band guns, imaginary finger pistols, spit-wad shooting, thumb wrestling, and freedom of speech.

    You will think what we want you to think and do as we tell you to do. It's the law...

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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    @ roomtemp
    January 4, 2013 7:10 pm
    And we can't say the (Redskins) the (R) word anymore (no lol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redskin_%28slang%29
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  • Ted Bundi wrote...
    Thanks roomtemp.
    January 5, 2013 6:28 am
    What am I going to do with my rubber band gun?
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  • maplefish wrote...
    @roomtemp
    January 5, 2013 9:42 am
    Touché'!!! This s exactly the Braindead Liberal Agenda! Obama & Holder have both stated repeatedly that "guns must be removed from the hands of the public"....
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