Kids Have Constitutional Rights, Too!



By Theresa Mull
American Thinker
October 10th. 2019

Loveland High School student Nathan Myers recently did what many Colorado kids do: He ventured into the great outdoors for some target practice with his mom.

Myers’ enthusiasm for exercising his Second Amendment rights ended up getting him in trouble with his local government school.

“A report had come into the police department about the video, and they were told Nate was a threat,” Rally for Our Rights reported. “After showing the videos to the police officers and explaining that they’d simply gone on a mother-son outing to train with their legally owned firearms, the police stated that they had done nothing illegal and were well within their rights. They also determined Nate was not a threat to himself or anyone else and went on their way.”

We should all ask: What role should government schools have in the lives of students once they leave school property? Was it the job of the Thompson Valley School District to parent Nate outside of the classroom, especially when he was in the company of his actual parent?

And should it be up to the school district to discipline students for activities they engage in outside of the school, when law enforcement officials determined there was nothing amiss?

Nate Myers, like all Americans, has a First Amendment right to post whatever he wants to his personal social media accounts. And he, like the rest of us, has a Second Amendment right to keep, bear, and practice with legally owned firearms.

The thing about government is that it is its best interest to grow. Give government bureaucrats an inch and they’ll grab a mile. Give them the power to educate your child during the day, and next they’ll try to dictate what he does, where he goes, and what he thinks outside of the classroom, too.

The only way to halt this chilling government overreach is to get government out of the business of educating children completely.