Cowboys and Indians? More like Cowboys and Jail

Alright folks, many of you may remember playing with toy guns as kids shooting away at your friends or imaginary villains with imaginary bullets.

Ah, violence it's part of human nature. Eat or be eaten, kill or die. Sure, we like to think of modern time as more civilized, and maybe it is. But there are sill plenty of violence out there, rape, theft, and killing. Don't forget war. Lots of wars out there and our country actively recruits young men and teaches them to kill other people. It's the reality of life as we know it.

Along those lines, I ran across this article in the paper today. Apparently a mother went into her sons classroom with a toy gun and scared a few of the kids (maybe) by shooting off the toy gun in the classroom. I can't say for sure but the gun didn't seem to be one with the gunpowder caps in it, so no huge noise just the clicking sound of a toy gun. I also like to take a second to point out that for years now all toy guns must have a large orange cap at the barrel so folks know it's a toy.

An odd laps in judgment from a mother to be sure, and the school as banned this person from school grounds for a year. And the banishment seems like a fitting punishment. However that isn't the end of the story. Apparently the police were called now the mother is being charged with assault and faces up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.

JESUS CHRIST folks; a year in prison and an assault record!?! Let's get real, no children were harmed in the making of this story and no real weapon was brought into school. I remember my preschool used to have a chest full of nice looking 6-shooters for kids to play with. 20 years down the line society has turned around 180 degrees and now threatens to jail a mother who has essentially done the same thing many children did as kids.


Being an idiot (whether it's the person committing the offense, or the people handing out the punishment).... Not Tomland Approved.