Kid suspended for shaping pastry into a gun. (If he were quick on his feet he should

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have said he was shaping it into the state of Florida.

Park Elementary second-grader suspended for making pastry in shape of a gun

A second-grade student at an Anne Arundel County elementary school was suspended for two days Friday after school officials said he chewed a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun, an incident that has drawn widespread national media attention.

The school, Park Elementary in Brooklyn Park, sent a letter home to parents regarding the incident. The child's father, William "B.J." Welch, alerted local media to the incident, and Welch and his son Josh, 7, soon found themselves on CNN and Fox News, while conservative bloggers across the country opined on the matter.

The pastry "gun" was a rectangular, strawberry-filled bar, akin to a Pop-Tart, that the second-grader had tried to nibble into the shape of a mountain Friday morning, but then found it looked more like a gun, B.J. Welch said.

Welch said an assistant principal at Park Elementary School told him that his son pointed the pastry at a classmate — though the child maintains he pointed it at the ceiling


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/bs-md-ar-park-pastry-gun-20130304,0,3128582.story

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1. This is one more reason why the gun nuts win.

This type of silly over reaction only helps them paint us as overly dramatic gun grabbers.