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Look, Don't Touch

Reason Staff | 4.7.2008 1:10 AM

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In Spalding County, Georgia, seventh-grader Darius Allen brought a BB gun onto a school bus. He showed it to friends Alfred Burns and Andre Bussey, who touched the BB gun. When school officials found out, they not only expelled Allen, they suspended Burns and Bussey for a year and a half.

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