-By Warner Todd Huston
Now we get to the height of idiocy with a school “no tolerance” policy with a boy who was suspended just for saying the word gun.
A 11-year-old boy from Northern Middle School in Owings, Maryland has told his mom and dad that he wants to be a Navy SEAL one day, but getting pout of grade school may be a problem for him if Northern authorities have anything to say about it. You see, the sixth-grader was suspended last December just because he used the word “gun” at school.
Todd Starnes reports that the boy’s father, Bruce Henkelman, found out that his son had been talking with other kids on the school bus when the incident happened.
“He said, ‘I wish I had a gun to protect everyone from the bad guys. He wanted to be the hero,” the father said of his son.
The boy’s father is himself a retired Navy veteran.
It gets worse.
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Boy Suspended Just for SAYING the Word Gun”
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Freshman Congressman 
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