CINCINNATI – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced that an opening brief was filed in an FPC-backed lawsuit challenging a Michigan public school’s ban on gun-related speech that prevented a third-grader from wearing a hat to the school’s “hat day” bearing the text “Come and Take It” and an image of an AR-15 rifle.
The brief, filed with the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, can be viewed at firearmspolicy.org/mccrumb.
“Public schools may not violate the First Amendment rights of their students because they don’t like the Second Amendment and protected weapons like America’s Rifle, the AR-15.”
“The Sixth Circuit should remind school administrators that the Constitution’s protections apply even to speech they disfavor about rights they dislike,” said FPC President Brandon Combs.
“[Plaintiff’s] speech, which expressed her views about constitutionally protected rights, is protected by the First Amendment: Elementary-school students have the right to speak in school unless their speech falls within one of the narrow exceptions to protection (which are not applicable here) or unless their speech can be reasonably forecast to cause substantial disruption,” argues the brief. “And on this record, no such forecast is possible.”
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Why can’t/don’t gun owners claim discrimination against minorities, since we comprise only one to three percent of the population?
I will bet that had the young lady in question worn a hat to school showing something about her quire luvver or perhaps naming the masculine pronouns she prefers she would have been singled out for high praise as a great example of a “good stoont”. Yup the inmates are truly running that collective assylum. What shocks me is that parents continue to sacrifice their children on the public school altars of Moloch. And PAY them for the “priviledge”. The new Marxists met here in the US back in about 1920 and declared they would own and manage the public… Read more »
And then, there is the story of a’Pop Tart!’ These indoctrination centers are out of control!
These people in our public school system have been idiots for at least the last 40 years and we wonder why students can’t read or write but know the proper pronouns and nothing about American history or our constitution rights .
and these folks think tampons in the boys bathroom solves all their problems.. nuff said.
Good! I hope FPC’s suit is successful. It is beyond ridiculous that kids can be persecuted for having gun related attire, or even drawing a picture of a gun at school. This madness needs to stop.