An eighth grade student from West Virginia has been arrested, suspended and faces charges for wearing an NRA T-shirt with the image of a firearm and the words "Protect Your Right" printed on it to school.

Conflict over Jared Marcum's shirt got him arrested and suspended from school.

KOWK-TV reported Jared Marcum saying he never thought there would be a problem with his pro-Second Amendment apparel.

"I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don't see a problem with this. There shouldn't be a problem with this," Marcum told KOWK-TV.

Police confirmed that Marcum had been arrested and faced charges of obstruction and disturbing the education process after getting into an argument over the shirt with a teacher at Logan Middle School, which is south of Charleston.

Logan Middle School's policy regarding dress states:

A student will not dress or groom in a manner that disrupts the educational process or is detrimental to the health, safety or welfare of others. A student will not dress in a manner that is distractive or indecent, to the extent that it interferes with the teaching and learning process, including wearing any apparel that displays or promotes any drug-, alcohol- or tobacco-related product that is prohibited in school buildings, on school grounds, in school-leased or owned vehicles, and at all school-affiliated functions.

The student's father, Allen Lardieri, told KOWK that the shirt didn't violate this policy, nor did his son become aggressive when confronted about it.

"I will go to the ends of the earth, I will call people, I will write letters, I will do everything in the legal realm to make sure this does not happen again," Lardieri said.

That's kind of silly...I wonder how the argument went (since it sounds like that's what he was suspended for, NOT for wearing a shirt.)

Fish on...

Todd

kind of silly?

How about fukn ridiculous?

arrested?.....ARRESTED!

over a shirt discussion?

Looks pretty innocuous to me.

its got an AR on it, immediate expulsion, 10 years in prison, and never allowed to own a shirt with an AR on it again...

America is full of a bunch of pussies now, its getting rather pathetic...

W.Va of all places, I thought that state only has rednecks and Hillbillys?

Grouch! Don't you have some patients to torture?

I suspect he was charged with brandishing a disgusting mustache. I'd also bet that the dad is a real character.

http://www.wowktv.com/story/22020264/8th-grade-student-arrested-over-gun-t-shirt

I think you may be onto something here AP... most West Virginia 8th grade gun freaks are sportin' full beards, tats and beer guts... and those are the honor students!

I bet the D.A drops the charges.

Curious what your definition of a gun freak is ? And how you know he's a gun freak?

4Salt knows everything, the lint in his navel tells him.

damn, there I go again, assuming he has a navel.

You mean like "Global warming and stem cell research"?


Fishy

Fcking ridicilous...

I see everyone is in a race to be the biggest idiot in this story.

In this case, we have idiot 1 wearing a shirt with a gun on it to school to provoke a response.

Then we have idiot 2 through who knows give a response that can only be described as preposterous.

Solid effort, people..................solid effort.

We're f'n doomed.

Other than the kid needing a hair cut....

The real story here should be whether the shirt's UNION made or not?

Mf

You hit your head on something? That's pretty coherant. Gonna fk up yer image.

Kind of a softball here, but who is idiot #2 ?

Nice avatar, Ducster!

Idiot #2 is whoever turned this into anything more than sending a kid home for the day for being disruptive in school.

School grounds isn't where you go to make a point. It's where you go to learn. And if some kid is causing a distraction, the appropriate response is to send them home for the day, not start a snowball rolling that leads to a f'n kid getting arrested.

jfc