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Eighth-Grader Who Refused to Remove NRA Shirt Could Face Year in Pr...

By  Ian Tuttle

June 17, 2013 3:37 PM

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Perhaps a suddenly firearm-friendly President Obama can put in a good word for Jared Marcum. In April, Marcum, an eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W. Va., was arrested when he refused to take off his NRA t-shirt. The New York Daily News reports:

The clothing kerfuffle began when Marcum wore a shirt bearing the NRA’s logo and a hunting rifle. As he stood in line in the cafeteria, a teacher ordered him to either change shirts or turn it inside out.

Marcum declined and was sent to the office, where an officer was dispatched after he again refused to comply with the school’s request.

Cops arrested him and charged him with disrupting the educational process and obstructing an officer.

Late last week Marcum “appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer,” reports Fox News. If convicted, he could face up to a $500 fine or a year in prison. He will be back in front of the judge on July 11 if his attorney cannot get the charge dismissed before then.

One can understand this sort of silliness across the border in Maryland (as we have chronicled here and here) — but in West Virginia? This is, after all, the state whose senator’s campaign ad featured him shooting Obama’s cap-and-trade bill. Ah, those were the days.

[XLFD]

Public organizations are not only trying to take away the right to bear arms, but the right to wear (images of) arms.  I like the heroic resolve in this boy and his dad.

It's amazing what the police can charge you with "obstruction" for; I sense a wrongful prosecution lawsuit in the future for the local government agency for this violation of basic rights in this power flex.

One of the links in the story  told of Marcum and others at the school wearing NRA shirts after the one day suspension he received.  This time the school didn't overreact. 

[Willy]

When liberals are in contol of an educational facility these are the types of decisions they make.

[AQUAMAN]

Dittos guys, and this absolutely is illegal, unethical, and totally sickening to me. I too admire the youth and his dad, and hope these continuing episodes don't repeat themselves elsewhere, but it's like the story of the horse, it's already out of the barn, and may be too late to catch up to and corral again. America, either wake up, or continue to see this escalate into the future, and become fatal to our very being, and freedoms as our forefathers granted to all of us. Tip of the hat to easy again, quite revealing, and also shocking.