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Friday, October 4, 2013

California high school forces girl to remove ‘violent’ NRA t-shirt, apologizes

Well that didn't take long..........

From the DailyCaller.com:
School officials at Canyon High School in Anaheim, Calif. forced a student to change out of a t-shirt promoting the National Rifle Association.

The incident happened in September, reports CBS Los Angeles. A security guard at Canyon High – “Home of the Comanches” — tapped sophomore Haley Bullwinkle on the shoulder and marched her directly to the principal’s office.

Bullwinkle, 16, said school officials then commanded her to remove the shirt immediately and put on something else.

“They were treating me like I was a criminal,” Bullwinkle told the station.

According to the sophomore, they also told her that the NRA shirt “promoted gun violence.

The images on the shirt are a male deer, an American flag and the silhouette of a hunter in a field. Below those images are the words “Protecting America’s Traditions Since 1871.”

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The girl’s father noted that Canyon High’s mascot is the Comanche.

“I think that if you consider the hunter — the image of the hunter to be offensive — certainly there are groups that would consider the Comanche Indian chief to be offensive,” he said.

He also observed that Canyon High’s drill team twirls fake rifles, according to CBS Los Angeles.

After CBS Los Angeles reported on story, school officials quickly caved. On Thursday, school officials apologized to changed course and apologized to Bullwinkle and promised to train security guards and other staffers so that “an incident like this does not occur again,” reports the Los Angeles Times.
These Administrators need to be fired and forced to apologize in front of the entire school.

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