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Civil Liberties

8th Grader Suspended and Arrested After Wearing Gun T-Shirt to School

Matt Welch | 4.19.2013 11:06 AM

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WOWKTV.com has the report:

When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school this morning he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights. […]

It was the image of a gun printed on Jared's t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record. […]

The Logan County School District's dress code policy prohibits clothing that displays profanity, violence, discriminatory messages and more but nowhere in the document does it say anything about gun images.

"He did not violate any school policy," [Jared's father Allen] Lardieri reiterates.  "He did not become aggressive."

Video at the link. Via the Twitter feed of Radley Balko.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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