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A senior at Princeton High School near Raleigh, NC has been permanently expelled from school.
His crime: He went skeet shooting the day before with some friends, safely unloaded and locked up his shotgun in his truck afterward, and then forgot it was there the next day when he drove to school.
Then he made his BIG mistake. Upon remembering the gun was in his (locked) truck, he knew he couldn't legally leave the school to drive it home and come back. So he quietly called his mother and asked her to come and pick it up.
The mistake? His call was overheard by some zero-tolerance fanatic at the school.
Question: Who did the wrong thing? And who broke the law?
BTW, as a result of this incident, this Eagle Scout has also been charged with a felony.
Honors Student & Eagle Scout Charged with Felony and Expelled After Accidentally Leaving Shotgun in Truck
May 1 2013
According to Todd Starnes of Fox News, Cole Withrow, an Eagle Scout, honors student, and active church member has had his life turned upside down.
The trouble began when Withrow discovered he had accidentally left his shotgun in his truck once he arrived at school. He had been skeet shooting with some friends the day before.
Withrow tried to immediately call his mother to come and pick up the firearm, but he was overheard by a school official.
Withrow told officials the truth about what happened. Then he was arrested and immediately and permanently expelled from school.
According to Fox News,
“He didn’t know what to do,” Boykin, whose son is friends with Withrow, told Fox News. “If you jump in the truck and leave, then they get you for skipping school. Once you are there you have to say.
“I think it’s an injustice for this young man,” she added. “He’s a good guy. He’s loved by his classmates and his teachers. You don’t become an Eagle Scout by being a bad seed.”
The paranoid gun-haters have so twisted and warped our laws, that one of the best kids in the school, who treated his gun with perfect safety and secured it from any possible interlopers, has been expelled from school and charged with a felony.
It's clear to me who committed a crime here: The people who made the laws to cause him to be punished this way.
He was wrong - period. My son must obey school rules on school property - what makes you think this young man should not?
Should he be granted special privilege because he is an Eagle Scout? I don't think so.
The school faces HUGE liability if they allowed this to happen and someone got hurt. If you make an allowance for one; then you will have to make an allowance for 1500, depending on the size of the school.
That being said - I certainly hope he is allowed to graduate. School is almost over for most Seniors anyway.
He brought a gun to school, he did not forget, he thought he wouldn't get caught. You are telling me he doesn't know where his guns are and in what state of readiness at all times? Dangerous. It is a good lesson for him.
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