NO (toy)GUNS IN SCHOOLS- zero tolerence

This morning on our breakfast table across from my 5 & 8 year -old sons sat two pistols and a rifle. Both WWII vintage. "Good morning guys" I said, "Hi dad" they replied. "What's up with the guns?" I asked. "No guns in School" said my oldest. "Oh ...ok" I repsonded "why are they out?"
They asked me if they could take Indy in to show their best friends. I said sure. They went onto explain they had to disarm Indy and his co-horts before they could transport them to school.

Indy is Lego Indiana Jones. Indy and his posse are 1 & 1/4 inches tall. Indiana Jone's Lego guns- all three of them that were sitting on the breakfast table can fit on the head of a penny. The rifle is 1/2 inch in length because it fits into one of Lego Indy's friends wittle pwastic 1/16 inch hands.

Times have changed. Indiana Jones is now modular, square headed(and jawed) and completely unarmed except for his plastic one inch whip. AND...if your son(because that's what boys do) points his finger in the shape of a gun during recess or fashions a weapon out of a stick, toilet paper roll, tin foil, paint stirrer or clay- BULLY ALERT- ALL UNITS RESPOND. Obviously it hasn't happend to me yet. My kids strip search all their armed action figures regardless of size weight and gender. NO PROFILING in the Matthews' household. Poor GI Joe. All that awesome hardware- and by the time he gets to school, he's just another UFC challenger.

I remember taking my very first Cub Scout pen knife to school for show and tell. I carried it in my pocket. I knew if I got caught with it before show and tell some nun or another teacher would of knocked the crap outta me and taken it away. I didn't want that to happen, so as per my dad's suggestion, I kept the knife in my pocket until it was time to talk about it and scouting. That was 1970.

Yes Times have changed.

Two words some up my last year of high school 79-80: Gun Rack.




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