Youth Suspended Over Sketch of "Gun"

You see the drawing above that looks like a gun? According to WorldNetDaily.com, a 13-year-old boy was suspended from school for drawing it. Why, you may ask was he suspended, it was because school officials thought that drawing posed a threat. Mind you, the boy never brought a gun to school. Matter of fact the parents say they do not even own a gun. Is his suspension an overreaction? I think it is. The boy never drew a person getting shot it is just a "gun"--or what is supposed to be a gun, I guess.

There may be something deeper going on here. If you look at the drawing again there are happy faces on the gun. Is he promoting guns I wonder? Or maybe putting guns in a positive light? Maybe the school officials just objected to him drawing a gun period. If he would drawn another weapon like a switchblade would they have considered him a threat then? Where is the ACLU legal support for the boy? After all isn't the boy's freedom of expression being violated? If he would have been suspended for drawing Jesus mockingly or a marijuana cigarette then the ACLU would have probably shown up to defend him. Then again maybe the school officials would have let that slide. Hard to say what they would have done.