By Selwyn Duke

Call it living in Upside-down Land or the realization of the
Bible’s prediction of a time when bad will be called good and good, bad, but
once again innocent schoolchildren have been persecuted for, well, just being
children. This time the offender was Chase Lake Elementary School (CLES) in
Edmonds, WA, where some kids were suspended for using Nerf guns on school
grounds. And it’s an all-too-common story. A child will be punished for drawing
a gun, shaping his fingers as one and saying “bang!” merely
talking about guns or some other innocuous action. And recently there was a
case of a five-year-old boy who brought a cap gun to school to show a friend
and then was interrogated for two hours until he wet his pants. It’s all
very bizarre and very twisted.

In the Edmonds case, the children were told that they could
bring the toys to school, but I’m not interested in individual details but
deeper matters. And make no mistake, something deeper is afoot here.

To introduce this, let’s start with another common thread in
these cases: the reaction of the persecuted children’s parents. While they’re
always upset about the relatively draconian punishment visited upon their kids,
their comments often reflect those of Edmonds mother Stacey Leidholm, who
addressed her son’s suspension and marred permanent record and said “I do
understand that they definitely need consequences, but not that harsh of a
consequence.”

Let’s stop right there. Why do they “need consequences”?
This isn’t a matter of simply having to respect the rules even if you disagree
with them, since “with toy or facsimile guns, discipline is handed out at the
discretion of the principal [at CLES],” writes
KomoNews.com. Moreover, consequences imply a transgression, but what’s wrong
with playing with toy guns? It’s not as if these brightly colored toys could be
mistaken for real guns, and playing with them is certainly less likely to cause
injury than is playing baseball or most any other sport. So what danger is
posed by the possession of toy guns on school grounds?

Before I get to that, a bit of history. Not that long ago it
was common for boys to bring guns to school, as they might have target shooting
afterwards; this was even the case in New York City in the 1940s and ‘50s,
where kids would often ride the subways with their guns. And while this no
longer occurred when I attended school in the Bronx in the ‘70s, no school
official even batted an eye at our bringing toy guns to school. That was just
what little boys did. Clearly, something has changed in society—and it isn’t
the availability of guns or little boys’ desire to play with them.

The obvious answer here is that the last two decades’ school
shootings and our civilization’s general moral decline have changed the
equation. But while this would explain the desire to keep students with real
firearms off school grounds, there is no logical reason to apply this to toy
guns. Saying otherwise is like claiming that because you wouldn’t trust an
11-year-old to drive the family car to school, you won’t let him bring toy cars
with him, either; or that he won’t be allowed to possess toy airplanes because
he isn’t ready to pilot a 747 for Delta. The same applies to the argument that
bringing toy guns to school makes the leap to bringing real ones that much
shorter; it’s as nonsensical as saying that junior is more likely to steal the
family sedan if you let him play with Matchbox cars.

Of course, there is the paranoia explanation: the school
shootings have made people so fearful that anything smacking of firearms is
reflexively rejected. And I’m sure this is a factor—but I’m also sure there’s
more to it. What is it?

Conditioning.

Many have posited the theory that the goal here is to raise
generations amenable to strict gun control by instilling the young with
negative attitudes toward firearms. And how better to do this than with swift
and sure punishment for anything that evidences even the thought of a gun?
Doodle a firearm, point your fingers like one—anything at all—and, bang!, you
suffer for your wrong thinking. Think doubleplusgood thoughts, little boy,
about flowers and kittens and rainbows and what gender you want to be. And
should a child be a tad recalcitrant, nothing creates negative associations
with firearms like a two-hour, pants-wetting interrogation at the age of five.

(By the way, it’s funny how leftists who would outlaw a
30-second spanking will then commit horrendous psychological and emotional
child abuse. Hey, nothing convinces a situational-values libtard of the value
of punishment like a person in need of reeducation.)

To buttress this theory, please consider this 1990s video of our
beloved attorney general, Eric Withholder. He outlines a plan for combating
violence and says:

What we need to do is change the
way people think about guns — especially young people — and make it something
that’s not cool; that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore,
in the way that we’ve changed out attitudes about cigarettes. …Over time we
changed the way people thought about smoking, so now we have people who cower
outside of buildings and kind of smoke in private and don’t want to admit it.
And that’s what I think we need to do with guns. …I’ve asked that the
creative community in Washington… devote [their] talent in a more constructive
way, so we can get at the minds of these young people. …. People who have
credibility with young people should be on the television, on the radio…and
telling these youngsters that it’s wrong to carry a gun…. I’ve also
asked the school board to make a part of every day some kind of anti-violence,
anti-gun message; every day, every school at every level. One thing that I
think is clear with young people, and with adults as well, is that we have to
be repetitive about this…. We need to do this every day of the week and just
really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different
way [emphasis added].

Now, I don’t imply this is a grand conspiracy. It doesn’t
have to be when you have millions of like-minded people who, being fellow
travelers, all act in similar ways quite instinctively. Sure, there are puppet
masters in the vanguard of these movements who create policy (like the
zero-tolerance nonsense) and who purposely effect Machiavellian designs, but
they are mere catalysts. Of course, there are many others—teachers and
administrators (mostly women)—who instinctively dislike guns, or fear them, and
for this reason are inclined to carry out these policies and punish a
wrong-thinking child harshly. But theirs is more an emotional reaction, as
opposed to the colder, more insidious, Luciferian motives of the world’s
Withholders.

But then there are millions of other sheeple, caught in the
Matrix, who simply enforce these rules because they exist. As to this, I called
CLES and asked someone in community relations the following: “How does the
possession of toy guns on school grounds pose a threat?” After giving me a
non-answer and then my having to rephrase the question once or twice, the
school official seemed genuinely flummoxed and said that she would have to
consult the literature and get back to me. An unthinking drone.

But the question is, are the rest of us going to be sheeple
as well? If not, there are things we can and should do to counter the schools’
war on guns and tradition. First, parents should organize, pick up their
children from an offending school with toy guns in hand, and play a visible
shoot-‘em-up game on school grounds. I’m serious. It’s called desensitization.
Moreover, it tells the children in the strongest way possible that there is
nothing wrong with toy-gun play. And if the schools are trying to condition
your kids the wrong way, why not condition them the right way?

Then there is the stick. The reason insanity keeps occurring
at schools and elsewhere is that leftists are never held accountable. But here
we must take a leaf out of their book. When someone transgresses against their
politically correct code—think Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder, Don Imus, or James
Watson here—an apology won’t suffice.

The left wants the person destroyed.

So follow suit. Don’t be like a certain popular cable-news
host who is wont to say “I don’t want to see ____ (the tyrant du jour) lose his
job.” Make sure a school official who commits leftist abuse upon a child never
works again. Go for the jugular, for the kill shot; give no quarter. Go Roman.
It’s only when thousands of the thought police’s decaying corpses of careers
are lining the Appian Way that those in darkness will see the light. The Culture
War is just that—a war. And if you want to turn it around, this must be your
mindset—every day, every way, every school, at every level.

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