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Don't Take Your Guns to Town

Reason Staff | 12.16.2008 5:00 AM

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Tosha Ford says six Newton County, Georgia, sheriff's deputies came to her home and took her 10-year-old son Alandis to jail where he was booked on charges of possessing a weapon on school property and terroristic threats and acts. The "weapon" was a toy cap gun he took to school one morning.

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