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Originally Posted by glatt

I feel like I've mentioned this here before, so forgive me if I have, but in 3rd grade, in Tuscon, Arizona in 1976, my friend brought a handgun to school for show and tell. I think it was a Luger.

The teacher asked to hold it in her desk for the day, but gave it to him for the show and tell portion so he could show it and tell about it.

He had found it in the desert, and his dad let him keep it. He told the story about how he fired it at a cactus one time, and when he went to look at the hole in the cactus, he saw a dead lizard behind the cactus that the bullet had also hit.

At the end of the day, the teacher gave him the gun back, and he went home. Maybe there were some phone calls that I wasn't aware of, but the boy was back in school the next day and seemed perfectly normal. No evidence that he had gotten in trouble.

Not merely nostalgic here, but this story is what you get when you let adults exercise JUDGMENT, instead of shackling them with zero-tolerance policies.