Florida’s ‘Pop-Tart bill’ would ease schools’ zero-tolerance gun policies

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Nearly a year after a 7-year-old child in Maryland was suspended from school for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, Florida lawmakers are working on legislation that would allow children such freedom of expression.

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Maryland’s proposed “Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act” seems to have stalled somewhere along the way, but USA Today reports that Florida’s similar Pop-Tart bill, which cleared a state House panel Wednesday, would bar school districts from suspending students for “brandishing a partially consumed pastry or other food item” bitten into the shape of a weapon or “possessing a toy firearm or weapon made of plastic snap-together building blocks.”

Also covered under the bill: children would be allowed to “vocalize an imaginary firearm or weapon” and to draw or possess a picture of a firearm or weapon.

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Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/02/06/floridas-pop-tart-bill-would-ease-schools-zero-tolerance-gun-policies/

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