Just some thoughts:
1) Kids of all races get sent home/suspended for bringing completely harmless (far less harmless looking than his clock) things to school. Butter knifes/water guns, etc. I remember one kid in my junior high class got sent home because he made a paperclip blowgun out of note cards or something.
2) I was an intelligence officer and a Level 2 Anti-Terrorism Force Protection officer in the Navy. Suitcase bombs keep us up at night. Suitcase IEDs have been use to kill hundreds of people in Iraq/Israel/Northern Ireland. Suitcase bombs, which this kids' looks like could have been pulled out of one my ATFP briefings, are not Hollywood make-believe. This kid brought a hard shell suitcase full of electronics and a functioning timer. See something say something.
If anyone brought that machine near the President, they would be lucky to just get arrested and not be shot by the Secret Service. DEFCON level would probably automatically go up 2 notches.
3) Twitter/Social Media is causing me to lose hope in the young people of this country. Making a meme with this kid in his glasses (WITHOUT HIS CLOCK) next to kids NOT IN SCHOOL with rifles saying something is wrong with this country makes me sick to my stomach.
My God, Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley must be terrorists.
What upsets me isn't whether someone is a gun person or not. It's the stupidity of the argument. I would say the intellectual dishonesty of the argument, but it's social media - they have no intellect.
This is how the social media driven culture wars goes. This is how we get divided. And who's leading the charge? Obama's twitter, "Cool clock Ahmed. Want to bring it by the White House? We need young people like you intrested in science." So people/Texans like us are mocked as racist/anti-science and gun nuts by social media.
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Last edited: Sep 17, 2015