School Will Allow Students To Pose With Guns In Yearbook Photos
Students at a high school in Nebraska will now be allowed to pose with guns in their senior yearbook portraits as long as they do not brandish them or point the firemarm at the camera. We can’t have the camera injured, now can we?
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The Huffington Post reports:
The Broken Bow School Board made the decision to allow the guns in school photos this week after a student asked last year to be photographed with his gun, Broken Bow Public Schools Superintendent Mark Sievering told The Huffington Post. That student asked after the deadline last year, but his request prompted the board to review their practices around guns in pictures and vote on whether they should allow them.
The school board voted 6-0 to allow the guns in photos as long as the images are tasteful, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Sievering told the Omaha World-Herald that the school was initially afraid that allowing students to pose with guns would promote violence. However, the board decided to allow it because hunting is a big part of the local community.
“The board, I believe, felt they wanted to give students who are involved in those kinds of things the opportunity to take a senior picture with their hobby, with their sport, just like anybody with any other hobby or sport,” Sievering said, according to the Omaha World-Herald.
“I understand that in different cultures this would be viewed differently, but in the rural, hunting culture here, it is something that is viewed in a positive way,” Sievering told HuffPost.
The area is about as white as a city can get. If this happened at a predominately black high school, the students would be called “thugs.”
On Tuesday, the NRA compared guns to vacuum cleaners, because we all know how over 30,000 Americans are murdered by vacuums each year. Why aren’t kids posing with vacuum cleaners if they’re the same thing? Let the Open Carry Vacuum cleaner marches commence.
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forpeace October 22nd, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Is this a school yearbook or NRA yearbook?
How ignorant are the people in charge of this high school in Nebraska?
Are they publishing student’s NRA ratings next to their photos as well?
I would like to know how the Sandy Hook school shooting victim families feel about this?
whatthe46 October 22nd, 2014 at 7:29 pm
and columbine.
StoneyCurtisll October 22nd, 2014 at 7:03 pm
True story…
When I was a little kid back in the 60’s, they demanded I remove my peace symbol necklace not only for my year book photo but anytime I was on school grounds.
My how times have changed.
tiredoftea October 22nd, 2014 at 7:55 pm
Peace is dangerous. Guns, not so much.
Tommy6860 October 22nd, 2014 at 8:02 pm
Because today we have our 2nd Amendment rights to free speech. We now have 2nd Amendment rights to an education.
tracey marie October 22nd, 2014 at 8:09 pm
who or what is that moniker supposed to be?
StoneyCurtisll October 22nd, 2014 at 8:55 pm
Are you wondering about my changing avatar?..
If so..
It is just for fun for Halloween..
Going from the mild mannered Dr. Jeykell to the abominable Mr. Hyde…
Just for kicks..:)
tracey marie October 22nd, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Okay, it was kinda creepy. How sad I did not put 2 and 2 together.
StoneyCurtisll October 22nd, 2014 at 9:08 pm
it’s all good sister!
tracey marie October 22nd, 2014 at 9:09 pm
🙂
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 4:07 am
Back to the garden for you
Candide Thirtythree October 23rd, 2014 at 5:46 am
They would still make you take it off in republican states.
Suzanne McFly October 22nd, 2014 at 7:09 pm
Can’t make this crap up, this is a whole new level for stupidity.
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 4:07 am
Ever been to Nebraska??
Suzanne McFly October 23rd, 2014 at 11:49 am
No, but I lived in Florida for 15 years and there is a lot of stupidity in the penis shaped state.
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Flaccid …lived there too…
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker October 22nd, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Unbridled ignorance is on the loose.
edmeyer_able October 22nd, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Wondering if the school will put a trigger lock on the gun before it’s allowed on School grounds. Bass Pro puts one on any gun that comes thru the door.
Will be interesting to do a follow up study going into the future on any of these fetishists that need to have every aspect of their lives documented w/their toys.
Carla Akins October 22nd, 2014 at 8:27 pm
Is there going to be someone at the door as they enter to ensure they’re not loaded?
edmeyer_able October 22nd, 2014 at 8:40 pm
Better yet let the child bring in a photo taken off site.
Carla Akins October 22nd, 2014 at 8:42 pm
If they had said yes to displaying Senior pictures with gun, I’d have understood (just not liked it) but they’re talking about Lifetouch coming in to take picture day pictures. I wonder how Lifetouch (if it’s them) feels about the guns.
whatthe46 October 22nd, 2014 at 9:01 pm
what about checking their pockets for ammo? if there is a trigger lock, can it be disabled?
Carla Akins October 22nd, 2014 at 9:06 pm
Yeah, what about those things!
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 4:06 am
Retired walmart greeters
Carla Akins October 23rd, 2014 at 4:37 am
Someone retires from that job? Oh lord, I got depressed just typing that thought.
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 4:40 am
Usually to the mortuary
Larry Schmitt October 23rd, 2014 at 7:18 am
I think they die with their smile buttons and vests on.
Larry Schmitt October 23rd, 2014 at 7:17 am
I think if I were a parent of a student at that school, my child might miss class pictures that year.
Tommy6860 October 22nd, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Now we’ll have shotgun-diplomas O.o
tiredoftea October 22nd, 2014 at 7:56 pm
“The school board voted 6-0 to allow the guns in photos as long as the images are tasteful…”??WTF???
tracey marie October 22nd, 2014 at 8:08 pm
Transgender kids are NOT allowed to dress the way they know they are…yet these rural idiots can pose with guns.
tiredoftea October 22nd, 2014 at 8:51 pm
Only tastefully, though.
tracey marie October 22nd, 2014 at 8:52 pm
sad isn’t it
tiredoftea October 22nd, 2014 at 9:22 pm
It is way beyond sad that a school board would vote unanimously for such a policy. No matter where in our country they reside.
tracey marie October 22nd, 2014 at 8:42 pm
2011 a shooter in Nebraska, the son of a cop killed the asst. Principal and wounded the principal…. so let’s allow kids to pose with guns
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 4:05 am
You know
whatthe46 October 22nd, 2014 at 8:59 pm
“Students at a high school in Nebraska will now be allowed to pose with guns in their senior yearbook portraits as long as they do not brandish them or point the firemarm at the camera.” how does that work. if one can see it, its being brandished right?
allison1050 October 22nd, 2014 at 10:05 pm
Truly amazing.
rg9rts October 23rd, 2014 at 4:04 am
Tasteful???? ROTFLMAO
Carla Akins October 23rd, 2014 at 5:18 am
This school put a student’s guide dog right next to her in the yearbook.
Larry Schmitt October 23rd, 2014 at 7:34 am
But you must admit, it’s a very intelligent looking dog.
Candide Thirtythree October 23rd, 2014 at 5:48 am
But you can bet that they will tell those kids what they can wear and how they can have their hair and if any of them shows p with an atheist or satanist or even Buddhist T-shirt they will send them home without taking the picture.
Larry Schmitt October 23rd, 2014 at 7:15 am
One more step on our way to becoming the United States of Guns. Or am I too late?
Roctuna October 23rd, 2014 at 7:42 am
Way too late. We’re so far beyond that it’s sickening. These nuts worship at the church of the almighty weapon.
Roctuna October 23rd, 2014 at 7:41 am
“The board, I believe, felt they wanted to give students who are involved in those kinds of things the opportunity to take a senior picture with their hobby, with their sport, just like anybody with any other hobby or sport,” Sievering said,
Could a student pose with fishing tackle? A motorcycle or old car they’re restoring? Their porn collection? Their nazi memorabilia? They’re all hobbies too.
Larry Schmitt October 23rd, 2014 at 8:26 am
Guns are way past a hobby, it’s a religion.
Marcos Duarte October 23rd, 2014 at 11:41 am
If it was blacks, they would be called thugs …
That has got to be the stupidest line ever; LOL.
Thugs have guns to commit crimes with, and kill other thugs; not shoot at game.
“Thugging” isn’t a sport – Hunting is.
Moron author.