Teacher Suspended for Gun Pictures on Facebook

SUE,SUE,SUE.Best of luck.Try the nra or aclu for a lawyer contact.Your admin must love giving money away,what freakin morons.

Who cares what kind of picture was put on face book, as long as it was not some kind of sexually explicit picture with children or farm animals. Have people lost their freeking minds? Theres alot worse things going on today than posting a picture of yourself pointing a weapon at a camera.

In regards to red, white, & YOU 's comment about if it was a black athlete, don't believe color was ever mentioned. It does not matter if she were purple, this is a violation against her right as a US Citizen to own or "touch" a weapon.
As for your statement that "the majority of gun owners or members of the NRA are for the death penalty, but against abortion" Let me try to enlighten you. As a gun owner who is for the death penalty, but against abortion, the children being aborted did nothing wrong, their only crime was being conceived. They did not go out and rape or murder, or in anyway inflict harm or pain on another person. Those on death row, however have done these horrific crimes and some I'm sure we can't even imagine. I wonder, would you be so forgiving if it was your loved one who was brutally murdered?

This is all about gun control. The first thing a dictator does is take the guns. I'm not in the NRA, I'm not for or against abortion, I just think we need to protect all of our constitutional rights. She didn't commit a crime, and furthermore, how does the writer know that she was pointing it at anybody? Ever heard of a self-timer? Most cameras have them these days. Stop drinking the koolaid sheeple. I will never be killed for a lack of shooting back.

Hey, it's a GOVERNMENT school. They force everyone to follow their rules. And now they control banks, businesses, and want control of health care.
Welcome Big Brother. It's time to be afraid for the future of the US. Our founding fathers would be appalled!

What's the big deal? That's none of anyone's business! Why is everybody phobic about guns these days? They HUNT in WI for goodness sakes! geez!

People who use these accounts need to show some maturity.
She has the complete right to bear arms if she wants to- but
pointing the gun at the photographer is stupid. She might have
been taking the photo herself though- it's possible. There is no
"expectation of privacy" on the net- I don't care how you try to limit
access. Windwardman is correct- anyone who is being paid to write
should be able use correct grammer. It does matter, even though
so many of you don't think so. I have a feeling that's why so many
people cannot be understood when they speak.
If you post photos of yourself this way, be sure they are something
you want following you around forever for anyone to see. Companies
are increasingly using Facebook and Myspace to get information-
there have been shows on this subject on tv- you have the right
to post whatever you want within reason, but don't get upset it
you are judged by what you are posting. If you want your friends
to see you drunk and passed out over the toilet- pass a photo around,
don't post it where possible employers can see it!

The problem is not the gun, but rather the social networking site. When you work in the professional world, you are expected to act professionally at all times. This is not the '80s where you can go out and snort coke, act up and nobody cares. She should make her Facebook page private, and post whatever she wants. Is there something wrong with owning a gun? No. Her employer, however, feels there is and has the right to expect her to behave in a way they feel a teacher should. If she and her employer continue to disagree, she should find another employer. To those of you who think she should sue...you suck. That's what's wrong with America. Everyone wants to do whatever they want without consequence.

I think they call them "grammar" cops.

Thank goodness for the far left. At least they recognize the "fact" of evolution and are not trying to run the world according to their mythological fantasy of God. As for the grammar stuff, anyone who has done a lot of writing knows that grammar is not all rules. Grammar changes with time, and a lot of grammar is more opinion than rules. As for the "who" or "whom" convention, that one should be thrown out the window, since it no longer serves a real purpose and is a left over from Latin. Consider that most pedant grammarians are not good writers, no doubt because they have no imagination.

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and the other founding fathers must be turning over in their graves over what this once free nation has become. While Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Marx are laughing. But hey, we just elected one of THEIR disciples president.

You right-wing, christian freaks are LOSING! Yes, us on the Far Left HAVE taken over. So what??? Get over it! You've done nothing but spread fear of hell and damnation for so long. Now, finally, we can have science lead the world...we can let people be the way they want to be (GLBT) WITHOUT worryinng about you "Christians". Get over it.....there is NO GOD, there is only people. Science has proven this. Weapons only KILL. We don't need weapons, we need reason, not religious fanatics destroying this world.

I say take the whole lot of you Christians, line you up and be done with the lot of you already. What you call evil is really only your own irrationality against what you don't understand. It's a much different world than it was 30 years ago when you could call someone gay. You can't do it now! You can't do anything now! Pretty soon, religion will ave gone the way of the dodo bird.

If only we could do something about those muslims tho'. Tricky lot them. We need to educate the masses and get them to understand there is no god. You're here, you live and then you die. Period. Don't let anyone tell you what you can or can't do. You can do anything NOW! ACLU is on our side, not you whacko right wing neo-con's side.

Yep...we rule it all now, and you can't do a damned thing about it, stupid religious, right wing white people.

Sorry Teachers, No Second Amendment rights for you!! You can now thank your union for the 'change'

The So Called Grammar Police are just correcting & pointing out your lack of education. Poor grammar is just as offensive as Bad Breath, Body Odor, and Inappropriate Attire. With all the money we have thrown at our schools, Dumb is Dumber & Dumbest. Go Back To School Dummies. Or is it Scroool fer u?

I have a firearm, and a concealed weapons permit. I am 55 years old, a female, and I don't hunt. My husband, sons, and daughter, all hunt, and also have concealed weapons permits. WE, follow the law, and truely belive in our rights. Do to fact that we don't know, nor does the school board, if this teacher is pointing a gun at a person, or a tripod, they should not judge. As for the holding of the firearm, it;s the school that teaches the Bill of Rights, which they should. To suspend a teacher, over a picture, that they do not have all the facts, is wrong. I would never allow my child to be taught by such ignorant people.

I hope the taxpayers in Wisconsoin are ready to pay this teacher a lot of money, because violation of constitutional rights almost always wins a court case. And the official who suspended her should be fired.

I didn't realize the 1900s morality clause was still in effect for teachers.

Unless its her performance in the classroom/anyjob? MYOB.

And this had what to do with her job performance? nothing. thank gods she wasn't drinking a beer, they might have tarred and feathered her.

This situation in ridiculous, well that's my personal opinion, but a school is considering firing a teacher because she is bearing arms in a Facebook picture, just as the U.S. Constitution states we have the right to do so. The direction in which the teacher is pointing the gun and her reasoning are irrelevant. People are going to assume that "she is pointing it at the camera so that when someone looks at it, the gun is going to be pointed at them," {blah..blah...blah, whatever} but just like art and literature there are no concrete facts as to why (she is pointing it in the direction it is) Why the picture looks the way it does IS OPEN FOR INTERPRETATION for outside only the originators are going to know who, what, where, and why! Honestly, no one is perfect and people are inevitably going to make mistakes, were only human, so I find this "concerned" teacher who turned in the photo quite hypocritical because surely "s/he" has never made a mistake, or had something go wrong when "s/he" had the best of intentions!!! What about the students? What about their education? This School District sounds something like mine, ubelievably conservative, where school was nothing like a school anymore where every pier was mr/ms goody-two-shoes. My school was much more a prison than a place of education.

for those of you gun advocates, like myself. check out "keep your laws off my guns" on facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=2207081116&ref=ts

i understand that some of these guns are a bit excessive, but the point is having guns is a 2nd ammendment right and being able to post them on facebook (in a non threatening manor..to humor the far left) is a 1st ammendment right. so to the teachers who are fellow proud gun owners i have one word. HOOAH!!