{"id":23354,"date":"2013-02-08T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=23354"},"modified":"2013-02-08T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:39:37","slug":"whats-behind-the-punishment-for-fake-guns-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/02\/whats-behind-the-punishment-for-fake-guns-in-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind the punishment for fake guns in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Comment from the sane and reasonable woman who forwarded me the article, \u201cWhat\u2019s behind the punishment for fake guns in schools?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">The owner of a fake gun should get exactly what he deserves: fake punishment. Nah, even that&#8217;s going too far. Getting bent out of shape over a fake gun should merit a suggestion to read the Constitution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">As a matter of fact gun education should be added to the curriculum (not to mention studying the Constitution). After all, kids are gonna do it anyway so they might as well be trained to use guns responsibly and safely. (Place a condom over the muzzle?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Liz<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What\u2019s behind the punishment for fake guns in schools?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">By Jon Rappoport &#8211; February 6, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23355\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/Lego-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23355\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/Lego-gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fake Lego Guns Made by Children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">In the latest episode of Ban Fake Guns, we have a boy suspended from school in Florence, Arizona, for carrying, yes, a picture of a gun on his computer. Screen saver. This is surely a sign of complete mental breakdown by school officials. And yet one more reason to home school.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Steve Watson, writing at infowars, runs down the recent litany of fake gun crimes at schools across America, resulting in student suspensions, suspension hearings, and actual school lockdowns:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Transparent toy gun. South Carolina.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Gun built from lego bricks. Massachusetts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Two kids talking about a nerf gun. New York.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">An actual nerf gun. New York.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23356\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/bubble-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23356\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/bubble-gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bubble toy gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">A pink bubble gun. Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">A paper gun. Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Pointing a finger and saying \u201cpow.\u201d Maryland.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Playing cops and robbers with fingers. Maryland.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/9779623-isolated-silhouetted-boy-child-gesture-and-activity-gun-finger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23357\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/9779623-isolated-silhouetted-boy-child-gesture-and-activity-gun-finger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Making a gun \u201chand gesture.\u201d Oklahoma.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Should we assume that because cops and school officials can\u2019t stop real crimes, they\u2019re settling for stopping fake crimes?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Can you hear the typical response to these school suspensions and lockdowns? \u201cWell, everybody in the community is on edge these days, after Sandy Hook.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">That remark garners a \u201cMmm, well, sure.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Then, the follow-up: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that school officials and police MAY HAVE overreacted. Suspension from school is PROBABLY too much. These kids need some form of LESSER DISCIPLINE, and, of course, EDUCATION about the dangers of guns.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">And there you have it. It\u2019s a sleight-of-hand trick. Go completely overboard with an officially certified insane action (suspension, lockdown), and people will ask for something slightly less insane instead.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Well, shooting old Bob in the leg and blowing up his car because he was sitting on his back porch cleaning his rifle was probably a bit much. A few days in jail would have taught him the right lesson.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">In schools, the slightly less insane (but still quite insane) solution to fake guns might go something like this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Today, class, we\u2019re going to learn about how dangerous it is to have a picture of a gun.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/child-scratching-his-head-for-an-answer-thumb1328079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23358\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/child-scratching-his-head-for-an-answer-thumb1328079.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">You see, Jimmy, when you build a gun out of lego, you think it\u2019s all right because you don\u2019t know any better. But some other child might be terrified when she sees the gun. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re here. To protect everybody from bad feelings.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Jimmy scratches his five-year-old head and wonders what world he was born into. He\u2019s just been introduced to \u201cgreatest good for the greatest number,\u201d \u201cyou have no freedom,\u201d and \u201cleast bad for the lowest number,\u201d all in five seconds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">What we\u2019re seeing here is a mandate to change the culture. Teach these kids that any reference to, symbol of, or thought about guns is wrong.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Welcome to operant conditioning. <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>[NOTE FROM WATCHWOMAN &#8211; IF YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF OPERANT, THERE&#8217;S A DEFINITION BELOW.]<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">These fake-gun busts are really about thought crimes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We recently saw that with the passage of a New York State gun law. It requires psychiatrists to signal the police when they have a patient who may be \u201ca danger to himself or others.\u201d The patient is thereafter banned from owning a gun.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Any patient, any person has had thoughts of violence. Any psychiatrist can tease such thoughts out of a patient. And that can be sufficient to make a report to the police.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Eventually, the population can be directed to believe that \u201ca bad thought\u201d is a definite and inevitable precursor to a real crime. Therefore, nip things in the bud. Label thoughts themselves as crimes and the thinkers criminals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Well, Charlie has been having some very strange thoughts. Did you know that? I mean, he\u2019s not the person we assumed he was.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Strange thoughts? You mean at the party last week? He was just kidding around.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Don\u2019t be an idiot. Thoughts like that lead to serious crimes. Have you been living in a cave?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">And that\u2019s what it feels like. You were living in a cave. When you came out, you discovered the public mindset had changed. All of a sudden, people were believing something new. In this case, they\u2019re believing that \u201cbad thoughts\u201d always led to bad actions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">For example, remember crimes before there were hate crimes? Somebody killed somebody else and he went on trial for murder. Then the \u201chate conditions\u201d were added, to increase the penalties. At that point, the court system was given the task of reading the criminal\u2019s mind and deciding why he really did what he did. If he had the wrong thought before committing murder, he was a murderer-plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Soon, you\u2019ll be hearing this: \u201cLittle Bobby brought that nerf gun to school. Twice! It\u2019s incredible! So the school officials have referred him to a psychiatrist. And his parents are making a stink about it! Can you believe that? Obviously, the boy needs treatment. You know what? The parents do, too.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23359\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/th1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23359\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/02\/th1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Introduction to Drugs 101 &#8211; Ritalin, Zoloft, and Valproate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Here\u2019s what you won\u2019t hear. Over the course of the next year, little Bobby is dosed with Ritalin, Zoloft, and Valproate. Driven into a psychotic state by the drugs, he stabs another child at school.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Then people will say, \u201cEverybody knew this would happen. That nerf gun was the sign. The boy was having bad thoughts.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Every special group in America with a social agenda is now committed to operant conditioning of the young. This means repetitive indoctrination in school and intense peer pressure. These groups aren\u2019t messing around. They aren\u2019t interested in rational dialogue between consenting adults. They\u2019re going for the throat: brain-bend the young early and often.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">So in schools, we have the dissemination of the green agenda, the bullying agenda, the hate-crime agenda, the gay and lesbian agenda, the sex-education agenda, the vaccination agenda, the psychiatric-treatment agenda, the share-and-care it\u2019s-all-for-the-group agenda, the \u201cliving-Constitution\u201d agenda.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I don\u2019t care where you stand on any of these issues. That\u2019s not the point. The point is, the presence of these agendas in schools reveals that those who control the public education system in this country, and those groups who can wheedle their way in, are truly heinous people who fervently believe children are blank slates, little machines waiting to be programmed, and nothing more.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We are talking about a most profound cynicism concerning human beings and what they are made of. We are talking about the view that humans are absolutely and only mind-controlled devices that require the proper software and the Go signal to live their lives and think their thoughts under the supervision of lines of code.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Get this straight. It doesn\u2019t matter what software codes you might prefer. What matters is that children are being put at auction to the highest and most persistent bidder.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">If you can\u2019t grasp this big picture, I suggest you look and see what software is operating you.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">References to guns, representations of guns, and thoughts about guns are now targets for a big-time purification\/eradication campaign in schools. It\u2019s an innovation in the mass hypnosis operation. It\u2019s happening in schools because that\u2019s where the children are. That\u2019s where they can be corralled and controlled. That\u2019s where the federal money keeps the lights on and the toilets flushing and the checks coming. It\u2019s called leverage. Behind their big bucks, the feds play a tune, and the teachers repeat it, over and over and over.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Read more:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/07\/whats-behind-the-punishment-for-fake-guns-in-schools\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><strong>http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/07\/whats-behind-the-punishment-for-fake-guns-in-schools\/<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomorefakenews.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><strong>www.nomorefakenews.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #0099ff\"><strong>For those who have never heard of Operant conditioning<\/strong> (or <strong>instrumental conditioning<\/strong>) &#8230;<br \/>\nIt is a type of learning in which an individual&#8217;s behavior is modified by its consequences; the behaviour may change in form, frequency, or strength. Operant conditioning is a term that was coined by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B.F_Skinner\">B.F Skinner<\/a> in 1937<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operant_Conditioning#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a> Operant conditioning is distinguished from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_conditioning\"><span style=\"color: #0099ff\"><em>classical conditioning<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0099ff\"> (or <\/span><span style=\"color: #0099ff\"><em>respondent conditioning<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #0099ff\">) in that operant conditioning deals with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Behaviour_modification\">modification of &#8220;voluntary behaviour&#8221;<\/a> or operant behaviour. Operant behavior operates on the environment and is maintained by its consequences, while classical conditioning deals with the conditioning of reflexive (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reflex\">reflex<\/a>) behaviours which are elicited by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antecedent_%28logic%29\">antecedent<\/a> conditions. Behaviours conditioned via a classical conditioning procedure are not maintained by consequences.<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operant_Conditioning#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><br \/>\nSource Wikipedia: Read more on operant conditioning at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operant_Conditioning\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operant_Conditioning<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment from the sane and reasonable woman who forwarded me the article, \u201cWhat\u2019s behind the punishment for fake guns in schools?\u201d The owner of a fake gun should get exactly what he deserves: fake punishment. Nah, even that&#8217;s going too far. 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