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[Bulgarelli Maria]

Unfortunately, Tyvor, stupidity is not legislatable. 
The issue of weapons in schools is legislatable.  And
personally, I have to agree with the person who said
that there are other things that he could have been
shown doing.  The SCA is not ALL about swords.  We do
a lot of other things.  

I have to agree with the "pick your battles"
arguement.  It's a rediculous rule considering that
the school mascot carries a rifle ... but the chances
of winning against a school system that is going to
say that they are trying to protect their students are
practically nil.  

Pick your battles.  

Lady Elizabeta Maria dei Medici
Maria Buchanan
Hospitaler - Barony of the Stargate
and Avid Gun Owner (so don't try to say I'm against
weapons)

--- Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 12:32 AM 12/18/2006, you wrote:
> 
> >Each year I start out the school year with the
> Stupid People lesson. 
> >Why do we have ____ rule...because someone was not
> smart enough to 
> >know not to do ___ so we had to create a rule to
> stop a stupid 
> >person from doing a stupid thing. Sadly that also
> means that we are 
> >not allowed to something that is not stupid, but
> falls into the same area.
> >
> >   I drive my car the speed that I am comfortable.
> Strangely it does 
> > seem to be around the speed limit. But that limit
> is there to stop 
> > at least slow some of those who do not know their
> controlled 
> > comfort speed and would otherwise exceed it
> drastically. But sadly 
> > also slows that person down whose controlled
> comfort speed is 
> > higher than the posted limit.
> >
> >   Yes, sometime we are giving up freedoms to help
> keep others safer.
> >
> >   I am one of those who must enforce it in the
> classroom...and I 
> > have dealt with guns, knives, kids beating on the
> back end of live 
> > bullets, .... and I have only taught up to 8th
> grade.
> 
> Yes,  but... is someone with a *picture* of a sword,
> knife, gun or 
> live bullet the same as *having* that weapon? Do you
> remove or black 
> out all such pictures from your textbooks? What
> about the words 
> themselves? To my mind this is verging into thought
> crime.
> 
> And it still doesn't address the double standard of
> having a school 
> mascot who carries a gun, or allowing prop weapons
> in school plays.
> 
> 
> >If we could give one person a rule that only affect
> them...life 
> >would be a lot different, but people would say that
> that was just 
> >not fair. Thus zero tolerance...for all, not just
> for some.
> 
> There's a perfectly good rule for such cases:
> Tivar's Rule #10. Don't 
> be stupid.
> 
>          -Tivar Moondragon
> 
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