why cant the cheerleaders in my school be smart and also hunt?

I watch Fox News every day, have lived in Montana the last 25 years and haven't seen or heard a word about this in the local newspaper or on Fox. In any case, if it is true, it is another insane "zero tolerance" policy of the liberal education cabal.

Oh Come On Now! Why can't people use their brains anymore. If this city is in an area where hunting is common, this shouldn't have been an issue. The contraband dogs weren't looking for guns, they most likely were out to find drugs. The girl told them about an unloaded huinting rifle in her trunk, which is totally out of view. And I would imagine it was cased in accordance with the law. They could have searched her car or something if the dog found it. Then provide a copy and reminder of the schools zero tolerance policy to everyone. Or they could have told the officers which car it was so they could use it for a test for the dog. Turn an accident into a positive. Instead they act like mindless jerks and read what the paper says to do and go do it. I think actual mindless robots could make better judgement calls than far too many people these days.

This sounds like another case of stupid. It also smacks of a law based on urban more's imposed on a rural population. Apparently the legislators drafting the law never thought that 1,some good kids hunt or 2, if you don't encourage the good kids to hunt but restrict them with zero tolerance discouragement, they won't hunt and the state will have fewer adult hunters in the future to support conservation. While I don't think any kid needs an AK47 (unless he is in Somalia and taking up piracy) still if kids don't get to shoot, they won't.
I went to my police chief and offered my collection of historical replicas for a history based gun safety course I had dreamed up-"Outa the Question" was the response. I suspect federal zero tolerance has something to do with why you can't teach gun safety to all the kids in the school where you have there attention already. It is also likely why guys like my old history teacher can't dress up like Minutemen and bring their Brown Bess for show and tell...But waitaminute! The Feds don't consider Black powder guns firearms! So why not?
Anyway they should get real and let the cheerleader off (and give her gun back!) It ain't like she was terrorizing the mall with it...

these people are so stupid. at my school lots of cars have firearms during deer season in them. i know a guy who works construction and carries his tools with him to school. does that mean his saws and razor knives are weapons

Senkoman 12 actually knives and saws are considered weapons at schools today and if caught with them you can be in serious trouble. Nowadays you can't even insult someone at school without punishment. It's crazy I'm a high school student and guys have it in their nature to mess with eachother but if I were to even call a friend stupid I would receive a in school suspension

I think that there should have been a little leiency she went and told the principal or whatever she had accidentally left her gun in car with that being said I feel as though if its a small school not sure that the principal could have let her go home real quick if she didnt live far and take it out no harm no foul. On a second note who uses a Honda Accord to go hunting in?

To quote Tim Wilson, "It's a sorry world." Thank
God this happened in Montana,where there remains some of the last common sense found in the U.S. in the west and southeast, with the exception of Atlanta, Ga. I hope she will not be crucified over this oversight.

This is pathetic. She admitted to it! She wasn't saying "Oh crap, you cought me. I was coming to shoot everybody in this school with a rifle and maybe a box of shells." She was letting the school know that she had a gun from a trip that she made and it was an honest mistake forgetting it in the vehicle. I mean who was it Bourjaily that wrote a post about forgetting his gun in the field. It happens. I'm just wondering what would have happened had she not told of the gun and the school found it.

everyone is overlooking the fact that she was doing the right thing,locking the gun in the trunk as SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO. Even though, she had it on school property by AN HONEST ACCIDENT the school board authorities should have realized this fact and took in WHO AND WHAT type of person she is and never should have taken any more action than safely putting the rifle in the schools possession. And calling the parents to come and get it. And giving the girl a rep-remand and THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL.! Especially after looking at all of her scholastic achievements.That poor girl is really getting ROYALLY SCREWED and that's wrong!

when I was at the University of Iowa in the early '80s we could have shotguns for hunting but we had to have them kept in a special locker- of course I didn't and kept it in my dorm room and shot it right out the window a couple of times to blast squirrels for Sunday nite dinner (toaster oven, basted in butter hooked from the cafeteria)- never got caught! we also made pipe bombs for fun but never damaged any property or persons

It's quite ridiculous that a student who had her gun locked up in her trunk would be suspended. Especially when it is so obvious that she had it there only because she had been hunting recently. And what murdering maniac tells the school administrators that the gun is there? The whole thing is pathetic.

It's quite ridiculous that a student who had her gun locked up in her trunk would be suspended. Especially when it is so obvious that she had it there only because she had been hunting recently. And what murdering maniac tells the school administrators that the gun is there? The whole thing is pathetic.

Muleynut30.06 i think the honda question is an issue all it's own. I had a friend in High School that sold his truck and bought a civic and then posted mathews stickers all over the glorified four wheeler. Pokeing fun at him became everyones favorite pastime. Ah the good ole days.

It's quite ridiculous that a student who had her gun locked up in her trunk would be suspended. Especially when it is so obvious that she had it there only because she had been hunting recently. And what murdering maniac tells the school administrators that the gun is there? The whole thing is pathetic.