More Zero Tolerance Madness

It's sad that these incidents are becoming so commonplace that people hardly notice them anymore.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Portland school has suspended an 8-year-old boy after he was found to have a 4-inch plastic toy gun built for an action figure, KPTV-TV in Portland, Ore., reported.

The third-grade student at Duniway Elementary School received a one-day suspension. Aron Anderson, the boy's father, said his son forgot he had the toy in his pocket after playing with it the previous night.

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Not a gun. Not even a toy gun. Merely a tiny bit of plastic that looks like a toy gun for a doll.

The district, instead of agitating for some sanity and intelligence, predictably closes ranks and protects it's own bureaucracy.

The region administrator for the school sent Anderson a letter that said the district intends to uphold the principal's decision.

Zero tolerance has become the modern Puritanism. Best defined, I think, by H.L. Mencken as, "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?

Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner, Daniel White reports,

Students at the University of Colorado are being told by campus police that their planned game of "Humans vs. Zombies" must be canceled because of a campus ban on toys that look like guns.

The planned game would divide participants into "humans" and "zombies" with the human team defending themselves with NERF guns. Campus police "[fear] they could be painted to look like a real weapon and someone could become alarmed and notify authorities, who would have to respond."

CU campus police shut down NERF game

Are Colorado University students really this stupid? Is it true that the students cannot tell this:
from this:



or this:

?

Maybe it is true.

It become more obvious with each incident like the above that "zero tolerance" is the the wrong term for this behavior. It should be, instead, "zero intelligence". If the trend continues, the answer to the great question, "Is there intelligent life on Earth?", will soon become painfully obvious:

"Not any more."