Grown-ups sure are funny people. Funny ha ha, no. Just weird. They say things like they mean it and then they do something just the opposite.

Take guns. Lately all kinds of grown-ups have been talking about putting guns in schools and saying that we need to make sure there are officers in schools to protect kids from the bad guys. Some grown-ups even think the teacher should have a gun right in the classroom, just in case something happens, so they’ll be ready. You never know, you know?

But then these same grown-ups turn around and get all mad because a little kid was talking about a gun. Not a real gun. Just a toy! That’s right.

This little girl, she was in kindergarten, she was 5 years old and went to some school in Mount Carmel, Pa. She told another girl that she was going to “shoot” her with her Hello Kitty pink bubble gun machine. The grown-ups got all mad. They even kicked her out of school for 10 days. Like she was doing something really, really wrong. Then they changed their minds — about punishing her, anyway — and let her come back after two days.

It’s just plain weird. Kids naturally do things they see grown-ups doing. Really little kids sometimes act big right in front of their parents, because they don’t know yet that just because they are so little they’re not supposed to even try these things. Yet.

But this gun. It was a pink bubble gun, for Pete’s sake! She didn’t even have it with her. She was just talking big, talking — well, kind of talking like the grown-ups, about how everybody can have a gun and use it and how we need guns in school and everything.

— Pocono Record,

Stroudsburg, Pa., Feb. 4

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