Mass Backwards
Welcome to Massachusetts, where the public school dictionaries have been censored to eliminate the word "irony".
Okay, so what's wrong with this? Well, there are several things.
First, you're basically indoctrinating kids that guns are bad. I was shooting an air rifle when I was in elementary school, and never hurt myself or anyone else because I was taught gun safety. It was ingrained into me early in life that guns aren't toys, they're dangerous, and they should be used only with extreme caution. The fact that these eighth graders have been taught either by their school or by their parents that even BB guns are too dangerous for young people is, I think, a sad testament to the state of our society.
Second, the kids were disqualified due to the very thing they were trying to prove with their experiment. Two kids spend two hundred dollars on ballistics gelatin to prove that BB guns can harm people, and they're disqualified because BB guns can harm people? I'd be willing to bet money that these kids carried out their experiment with parental supervision; the kind of kids who would do an experiment to prove that BB guns are dangerous aren't the kind of kids who shoot air rifles unsupervised.
Besides, is there any doubt in your mind that if they'd been able to compete, that they would have won the science fair? But, no, we couldn't ahve that. Imagine the uproar in Massachusetts if it got out that individuals as young as thirteen years old were intelligent and responsible enough to use firearms! I'm not necessarily trying to point to some anti-gun conspiracy at the middle school science fair, but honestly, don't you think there has to be an agenda behind not allowing them to compete?
In a related story, yesterday I saw two orange cats lounging around in my back garden, so I loaded up my air pistol and shot into the bushes. I don't know whether I actually hit the one whose butt I was aiming at or not, but I'll be damned if they weren't tearing out of my back garden faster than you could say "felix burger". One of them even looked back at me from the neighbour's yard, and ran back home before I could get loaded and sighted in for the second shot.
AMHERST, Mass. - Two eighth-graders who spent months working on a science project to prove how dangerous BB guns can be were disqualified from the state middle school science fair. The reason for the dismissal: BB guns are too dangerous.
Nathan C. Woodard and Nathaniel A. Gorlin-Crenshaw spent seven months researching and testing their hypothesis that BB guns can be deadly and should not be used by children.
The students spent about $200 on ballistics gelatin, which has the same density and consistency as human flesh, to use during their tests.
‘We had a good point to prove’
Nancy G. Degon, vice president of Massachusetts State Science Fair Inc. and co-chair of the middle-school fair, said fair rules prohibit hazardous substances and devices.
“The scientific review committee does not consider science projects involving firearms to be safe for middle school students,” Degon said.
The boys were invited to present their findings to some judges and receive a certificate of accomplishment, but they rejected the offer because they were not allowed to compete.
“I was really disappointed,” Woodard said. “We had a good point to prove.”
Okay, so what's wrong with this? Well, there are several things.
First, you're basically indoctrinating kids that guns are bad. I was shooting an air rifle when I was in elementary school, and never hurt myself or anyone else because I was taught gun safety. It was ingrained into me early in life that guns aren't toys, they're dangerous, and they should be used only with extreme caution. The fact that these eighth graders have been taught either by their school or by their parents that even BB guns are too dangerous for young people is, I think, a sad testament to the state of our society.
Second, the kids were disqualified due to the very thing they were trying to prove with their experiment. Two kids spend two hundred dollars on ballistics gelatin to prove that BB guns can harm people, and they're disqualified because BB guns can harm people? I'd be willing to bet money that these kids carried out their experiment with parental supervision; the kind of kids who would do an experiment to prove that BB guns are dangerous aren't the kind of kids who shoot air rifles unsupervised.
Besides, is there any doubt in your mind that if they'd been able to compete, that they would have won the science fair? But, no, we couldn't ahve that. Imagine the uproar in Massachusetts if it got out that individuals as young as thirteen years old were intelligent and responsible enough to use firearms! I'm not necessarily trying to point to some anti-gun conspiracy at the middle school science fair, but honestly, don't you think there has to be an agenda behind not allowing them to compete?
In a related story, yesterday I saw two orange cats lounging around in my back garden, so I loaded up my air pistol and shot into the bushes. I don't know whether I actually hit the one whose butt I was aiming at or not, but I'll be damned if they weren't tearing out of my back garden faster than you could say "felix burger". One of them even looked back at me from the neighbour's yard, and ran back home before I could get loaded and sighted in for the second shot.
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