Arrested for a Shirt

The shirt the 14 year-old was arrested for.

According to FoxNews, a teenager was arrested after refusing to turn his National Rifle Association, or NRA, t-shirt inside-out. Teachers claimed that the 14 year-old "disrupted an educational process" and "obstructed an officer." Originally, a teacher (presumably anti-gun) asked the teenager to turn his shirt, which featured a camouflaged AR-15 with a scope, inside-out. After refusing to turn the shirt inside-out, he was falsely charged with the previously mentioned accusations. However, the teen did nothing wrong. As long as the school does not have a policy that specifically states that there is to be no firearms on clothing (which is not necessarily Constitutional), then they had no right to infringe upon his 1st Amendment right. By using his 1st Amendment right, he was defending his 2nd Amendment right, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, the teachers acted in a totally unprofessional manner. They clearly did not know the Constitution's Amendments, so they infringed upon the first of the original ten. The judge in the case did know the Amendments and chose to drop the charges on the teenager. The mother still plans on suing the school for wrongly charging her son, though. It is just too bad that the teenager was not in South Carolina. Earlier this year (2015), South Carolina proposed a bill that would allow for a 2nd Amendment class to be taught in classroom. The bill would mandate that a three-week NRA regulated curriculum be taught in each and every public elementary, middle, and high school. The bill was known as the Second Amendment Education Act. Clearly, had the teenager with the NRA shirt been in South Carolina at the time, he would have been praised, not ridiculed. Personally, I hope that the Second Amendment Education Act passes, as it would actually allow children to understand firearms as what they truly are. Firearms are tools used to do bad things, but they are used for good more then evil most of the time (the media just refuses to talk about that). If children and teens were taught that firearms were not evil killing machines, maybe people would not be afraid when they see one. I know I am not afraid of firearms when I see them; I just want to shoot them at a range. How easily we forget that more people are killed with cars than by firearms every single day.