West Virginia teen arrested for wearing NRA shirt to school

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Virginia is extremely friendly to firearms rights.
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But not all is well in the Commonwealth. We have the same stupidity in school as exists just about everywhere else.

What has been lost is the notion that exercising a right such that another's rights are not violated can never be a crime. Yet, that is exactly what these people are saying. They are working hard to turn gun owners into pariahs.

Frankly, it's time to get the pitchforks and torches out.
 
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I would assume that an NRA shirt would fall under freedom of expression. But, not knowing a school's policies on the matter makes me sit on the fence with this one. Were faculty and students offended by his shirt? If so, where do you draw the line with t-shirt graphics? It's one thing if someone wore something that was blatantly offensive, such as a design that was homophobic, racist or laced with profanity, but i'm not sure an NRA shirt falls into this territory
 
A child calmly absorbing their training is the goal.

A child who can't pay attention, is drugged into submission.

A child that disrupts the process is arrested and removed from the process.

So who is that Pink Floyd dude anyway?
 
gaseousclay, in high school I often wore an Amnesty International t-shirt. What if that had offended somebody?

In the early 1990s, what if a kid had worn a Mandela or "End Apartheid" shirt?

Today, some kids wear Che Guevara shirts.

So why would you try to justify, in the slightest, the idiotic position taken by this school and its resource officer?
 
In high school, we couldn't wear our NJROTC Area 12 rifle team championship t-shirts because they had crossed M-1903s Springfields on the pocket.

I couldn't wear my sister's Mallard Ball(sorority dance thing) because on the back it had a guy wearing camoflauge and using a pump gun on some ducks.

Spelled out clearly in the student hand book, no clothing depicting items banned on school grounds. So therefore, no weapons.

To the everlasting shame of my mother, I got suspended for a day for wearing a t-shirt with an A-10 Warthog on the back of it.
 
Mack, my mother would not have been ashamed; she and my dad would have been in the principal's office that day - and the superintendant's and county commissioners' the next, if necessary, making dire predictions.
 
Ah, forgot to mention, Mom was an assistant principal at the elementary school.

Small town, everybody knows everybody, that sort of deal.
 
Eh, of course it was rooted in good intention. As Mother explained to me, the rule was originally written to prevent students from wearing clothing with tobacco labels on it.

Sidenote: My poor mother had to deal with my sister getting a write up for wearing a camo Levi Garrett chewing tobacco hat during senior week.

However, in the time of zero tolerance, it of course was expanded to include weapons and such.

A couple years back, the rule was revised because of the growing population of Browning hats with the 14-18 year old male redneck population. :)

Still no shirts with guns, booze, or tobacco though.

Heck, in NJROTC we couldn't wear our utilities on school grounds because of a no camo rule.
 
Ugh.. I'm really dreading my daughter starting school in 4 years... I think I'm going to be aggrivated from there on.
 
I can kind of see the point of the school, given recent events and the media deamonizing the NRA. I don't agree with it, but I can see where they are coming from. But to suspend or even arrest a kid for what he is wearing is insanity.

The question is did the school freak out because the shirt had a picture of a gun on it or because it promoted the NRA? If his shirt depiced a famous scene from a movie like Scarface or Pulp Fiction that features a gun, would it have been a big deal? It sounds like the anti gunners are trying to make an example of this kid for his support of the NRA.
 
Sounds like the teacher has a chip on his shoulder. He should of just let it go like the rest of the faculty did instead making a fool of himself. Someone should organize a national NRA T-shirt day.
 
Could be the school has a "no policital" garments rule. No pro gay / anti gay; no pro abortion / anti abortion; no pro liberal / ant....... Uh, nevermind, I just realized my mistake.
 
you're not helping with statements like this
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He's helping me. Maybe not you, but he is helping me.

Read the byline of this forum, "The leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts".

That is who he is addressing, not the school board, the District Attorneys' Office, the Mayor, or the PTA.
 
We do not know the whole story and what all transpired . Although not the same this sounds a lot like the Trevon Martin case . This kid was doing nothing wrong but hanging out . Then a teacher comes up and confronts him with no legal cause . The kids says no I will not comply I'm doing nothing wrong . Teacher then says what ever and it just escalates from there . With out knowing all that happened after the first volley of words . Who knows how out of hand it got and if at some point there was real disruption in the school . IMO the kid was never in the wrong there fore all his actions were in defense of his rights . To have him arrested is way over the top . At worst they should have just called the parents and had them come get him .

When I say we don't know the whole story , what if a teacher or other faculty member touched the kid or grabbed at the shirt to remove it . Because he never did anything wrong in the first place . Can he fight back , cause a seen so they stop ? I'm curios to see where the disruption accured . As far as I can tell the diruption was started by a teacher doing something they never should have .
 
It doesn't matter.

What matters is that Friday he was arrested and suspended.

But he wasn't charged so the DA isn't backing the school.

Monday he is back in school with the same shirt on and now the school is all mum about it. The family has a lawyer involved who just happens to have run or is running for the Board of Education. And there are other kids wearing NRA shirts at school as well.

I don't need much more then that to figure out that the school tried to bully this kid into taking off this shirt and they were wrong. They had no grounds, the DA has refused to back them. And now the town is throwing it in the school's face.
 
Throw it back in their face. The teacher is a bully and a bigot, who threw his personal culture in the face of the community and now will hopefully pay a price. Even if the result is a settlement in tax dollars, the community can ask why is a teacher still employed in that district, etc., etc.
 
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I didn't miss this but I didn't point it out earlier either.

The Associated Press typically does not identify juveniles who face criminal charges, but Marcum and his family wanted his name and case known.
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Just one more thing that shows us that this kids Mom and Pop are all right.
 
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