Chicago IL area school officials upset over "no guns" signs....

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There's a new media item(02/05/2014) detailing a few Chicago IL area public school officials problem with the "no guns" signs. They don't like the terms or gun logos. :rolleyes:
This seems like one of dumbest & insignificant complaints I've ever heard of.
Pictures or signs with guns on them are not going to "go off" or make kids think they need to pack heat. :rolleyes:
I still don't get the one school administrators remarks about the gun images making visitors or students think somehow guns were in the school or on school property.
What burns me most is that IL gun laws make these weapons on school property; illegal. If kids or even parents bring illegal guns on the school grounds then they broke the law! :mad:
I guess the "scary" signs didn't warn them enough.
 
I'm waiting for psychologists to coin the term "gun-phobia." Honestly, I think it is a legitimate condition for some people. Any mention, reference, photo, or talk of a firearm sends them into an irrational panic.
They cannot be reasoned with or talked-down from the hysteria that consumes them, no matter what.
 
Let's see, we don't want people to do something, but we don't want to post a sign telling them not do it because others will think that they do it.

Do I understand this correctly? I hope not.
 
And less we forget....

Chocolate guns & kids playing with toy guns near school buses/bus stops(which in many school districts means school property :rolleyes:) & elementary age boys who point their fingers like guns when they play. :rolleyes:

If I lived in that area, Id go to a PTA meeting & demand the school remove all signs or logos on all signs. Any image or symbol could be just as offensive as a gun/firearm shape. :mad:
Now wouldn't that be strange behavior?....
 
Those signs should have been put up years ago. Everyone knows that signage such as those will be obeyed by the criminals and a lot of heartbreak and violence could have been avoided.
 
The situation is ridiculous, but it is indicative of one of the new strategies the gun-control lobby is pushing. If they demonize even the depiction of guns, people will be intimidated and will have little desire to own one. At least that's the idea. I doubt the reality will be what they expect.

Let's stick to the matter at hand and avoid general diatribes about Chicago or the education system in a broader context.
 
"Pop Tart" law....

Well;
Things are looking up. :D
The Florida House cleared a new bill sponsored by Rep Dennis Baxley to change/modify some of the school SOPs & laws about toy guns, fake-replica guns, baked goods or confections(chocolate) that look like firearms, etc.
This bill also called the "Pop Tart law" will help parents & school admin types from events where young kids have items that resemble guns but are not guns.
A NW Florida medla article even stated the Escambia County school system(Pensacola Florida) got rid of the term; zero tolerance all together & the phrase is no longer in any student handbooks or posted signs. :D

Maybe, just maybe, educators & school officials in other places will follow suit but we'll need to wait & see...
 
Gun phobia or hoplophobia aren't recognized psychiatric terms.

Just pop usage in the gun world.

Now is affluenza a real term? :D

I also suggest Obsessive Compulsive Rimfire Hording Disorder be added to the DSM.
 
Or the signs are just a stinging reminder to some of the anti folks that they've lost the battle over concealed carry in IL.
 
Now is affluenza a real term?
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It is if it gets me out of work ;)

They tried to turn the gun issue into a social panic after Newtown. They failed. They tried to demonize gun owners, and they failed at that. Now they're trying to demonize the instrument, which may work in some instances.

It's nothing new, really.
 
If they're failing to demonize pop tarts, that will be a step in the right direction -- although I hope no one I care about ever eats one, at least in my presence. ;)
 
Thinking about it the other day, a friend and I came up with this.

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