Eighth-grade boy suspended from school for drawing a gun

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No, I don't mean pulling a gun from a holster and brandishing it. I mean using a pencil to doodle a gun in the margin of his homework assignment.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/95563

It's a good thing they didn't have these zero-tolerance policies when I was in fourth grade and a bunch of us were spending lots of class time designing complex, Rube-Goldberg-esque torture conveyor belts.