10-year-old suspended for making fingers into shape of gun

As if the basic idea isn’t stupid enough, apparently the school-rule fascists have this sort of thing pretty well codified:

the reason for Nathan’s suspension as a “level 2 look alike firearm.”

Yeah.

What’s worse is that if this sort of nonsense continues, not only are the control freaks going to damage generations of kids with respect to firearms and *play,* they’re also going to mess with teaching physics. Anyone else here remember the Right Hand Rule?

Good for physics::

Good for statics & dynamics:

I can see it now….

Oh My God! He has a rocket launcher!!!

Oh My God! He’s got a detonator!

Where things get interesting is when two inviolate areas of political correctness collide. What happens when this ban on “finger guns” runs into Sex Ed?