Dad arrested because daughter drew a picture of a gun.

[ksu_aviator]

Keep in mind that Canada does not have a popular gun culture like the U.S. does. People here still have guns but they are a privilege, not a right. You need to do firearms training, get licensed, have an officer trained in gun safety visit your home to ensure you have a gun safe bolted to the floor, and you can only carry your guns from your home to the range (or hunting ground) with accompanying paper work. You can't have your gun with you anywhere you want.

Canada used to be under the rule of the monarchy and so the Canadian constitution and all ancillary rights were granted to the people by the government, they were not fought for and decreed by the people. Canada has never had its own revolution or civil war.

Still, what happened is extreme, even for Canada. I think one too many assumptions were made and then the guy happened to get busted for having a firearm. It's unfortunate, but he can now be charged even though he isn't guilty of the original accusation.

Before anyone points the finger at another country for being backward, keep in mind that government expansion of power is on the rise everywhere in North America and here is no exception.

I can't imagine why anyone would brag about that kind of big brother government.

 

[Connery]

Sadly, that's the stupid world we are living in!

The Nanny State :screwy

It strikes me as a small town mentality where those who are called "mandated reporters" simply mishandled their responsibilities. They should have asked the father as he was coming to pick up the child. A small child stating that she and her siblings play with a gun at home is cause for the teacher to ask a question, but, to report it without anything other than a drawing ad the statement of this small child was "jumping the gun". So I agree with you Mya nanny screwy state..

 

[Mya]

It strikes me as a small town mentality where those who are called "mandated reporters" simply mishandled their responsibilities. They should have asked the father as he was coming to pick up the child. A small child stating that she and her siblings play with a gun at home is cause for the teacher to ask a question, but, to report it without anything other than a drawing ad the statement of this small child was "jumping the gun". So I agree with you Mya nanny screwy state..

It is Connery, it's a Nanny screwy state.......


Over the top madness..... what the heck is wrong with those people? :roll:

 

[jamesrage]

When they take his right to vote I'll be more sympathetic. They walked in his house for 5 mins, and strip searched him like I have to do at the damned airport.
Wah.

This is wrong either way. Every tyrannical government just loves useful idiots.

I read the article and there was something about the drawing featuring a gun in the kitchen?

A drawing by a little kid is not evidence.They had no business doing anything to that man and his family.

 

[Mya]

Strange country Canada...:shrug:

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Strange country Canada...:shrug:

Not surprisingly so, however, when you consider the history.

The United States was founded in rebellion and defiance against a horrendous tyrant. Canada was founded in grovelling and cowering before that same tyrant.

Even more than two centuries later, you can sometimes see the difference that this has made.

 

[spud_meister]

Sansone had a scrape with the law five years ago

and that Sundae (their infant daughter)

The guy had a criminal record and had named his daughter after a dessert, I can see why the cops acted as they did.

 

[Kali]

Strange country Canada...:shrug:

I am not so sure it is all that strange and something like this could happen here in the U.S. too. There have been people arrested here in the US based simply on what their kids draw while seeing a therapist. Sure they are usually there because there is already problems but I am saying it can happen. All it takes is a teacher seeing Little Suzie drawing pics of her killing a bunch of folks with a hatchet and a call to CPS. There have been familes ruined over this type of thing when it really was nothing

 

[Wiseone]

The policeman obviously overreacted, lets not overreact ourselves and act as if this is a normal, or mandated, or approved act by the government and blow it out of proportion ourselves.

 

[Jerry]

This is just idiotic.

Arrested dad wants answers after daughter draws gun pic | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
Jessie Sansone and his family are reeling after he was arrested and strip searched by police after his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a man with a gun in her Kitchener, Ont., kindergarten class. The 26-year-old father of four said Saturday the sketch was supposed to be him, getting the bad guys and monsters.
The school must have thought differently, as after Nevaeh drew it Wednesday, the school contacted Family and Children's Services and they called police.
Waterloo Police met Sansone at the school when he tried to pick up his kids he was told he was charged with possession of a firearm. He was then handcuffed and put him in one of the several squad cars waiting outside, he said.
"When I was finally able to see my family, after this ordeal was over, my little girl ran up and gave me a hug me and asked: 'Daddy, are you mad at me?'" said Sansone, his voice choked. "How could she ever think that I would be mad at her? She knows this has to do with her drawing."
Sansone, and his wife, Stephanie, have been together since they were teenagers. They have four children, aged 10 years to 15 months, and Stephanie is five-months pregnant with their fifth child.

Am I to understand that the police are doing abosolutly nothing about the monsters invading that child's home?

 

[Jerry]

I can't imagine why anyone would brag about that kind of big brother government.

temporal's post is like a 40 y/o pointing to himself proudly proclaming to the world "look at me, look at me, I still live with my mommy and she dresses me every day because I'm awsome!".

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Am I to understand that the police are doing abosolutly nothing about the monsters invading that child's home?

What are you, some kind of bigot?

“Monsters” is a racist term, for non-human beings who have different ethics than most humans do. You want the police to discriminate against them?

 

[MadLib]

Your concept of rights at the expense of the safety of an entire society may be philosophically incompatible with mine. Sorry.
I don't even care if the law says you can have guns.
I hope cops are this fast where I live. :shrug:

Yeah, we now know how much safer the school is now that this bull**** happened.

 

[MadLib]

I can't imagine why anyone would brag about that kind of big brother government.

I don't remember Temporal bragging about it.

 

[Goshin]

My son's 3rd grade teacher was from California, newly moved here. At a parent-teacher conference with me, she expressed concern about my son's drawings of guns and people shooting guns, including one of a man shooting other men, which he'd said "was Daddy shooting monsters and bad guys".

Here's what I told her... "Ma'am, this is South Carolina. Most folks here own guns. Many folks hunt and shoot recreationally. South Carolina respects and safeguards the rights of its citizens to defend themselves by whatever means necessary too. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my son's drawings or his attitude about guns, that's perfectly normal for our region and our culture, and you're just going to have to get used to it."


That shut her up quick. :mrgreen:

 

[Bodi]

When they take his right to vote I'll be more sympathetic. They walked in his house for 5 mins, and strip searched him like I have to do at the damned airport.
Wah.

You get strip searched at the airport? WTF? Are you on the FBI's Most Wanted or something?

 

[Bodi]

My son's 3rd grade teacher was from California, newly moved here. At a parent-teacher conference with me, she expressed concern about my son's drawings of guns and people shooting guns, including one of a man shooting other men, which he'd said "was Daddy shooting monsters and bad guys".

Here's what I told her... "Ma'am, this is South Carolina. Most folks here own guns. Many folks hunt and shoot recreationally. South Carolina respects and safeguards the rights of its citizens to defend themselves by whatever means necessary too. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my son's drawings or his attitude about guns, that's perfectly normal for our region and our culture, and you're just going to have to get used to it."


That shut her up quick. :mrgreen:

Some people are just too damned senistive. I was a teacher from California and I have seen all sorts of things. Boys, in general, talk, act and draw violent things. They smach each other on the soccer or rugby pitches. They draw violent things and laugh about it. I had a kid take a fake looking gun and point it at me one day and say bang. I just took the gun and told him he got me, but if he did it again we would have a problem, but that I was letting the issue go. Why? The kid was a good kid. No red flags. Drawing about guns is not a red flag. It is the psychology of the kid that you have to take into account. Maybe I am simply more in tune with personalities and such but when I hear all this bitching about kids and violence I just shake my head and wonder how so many people can be so stupid.

 

[Aderleth]

My son's 3rd grade teacher was from California, newly moved here. At a parent-teacher conference with me, she expressed concern about my son's drawings of guns and people shooting guns, including one of a man shooting other men, which he'd said "was Daddy shooting monsters and bad guys".

Here's what I told her... "Ma'am, this is South Carolina. Most folks here own guns. Many folks hunt and shoot recreationally. South Carolina respects and safeguards the rights of its citizens to defend themselves by whatever means necessary too. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my son's drawings or his attitude about guns, that's perfectly normal for our region and our culture, and you're just going to have to get used to it."


That shut her up quick. :mrgreen:

In defense of my "home" state, this isn't a "California thing." It's a "crazy" thing. I'm not remotely interested in guns and never have been, but I used to draw all kinds of crazy **** when I was a kid and well into my teen years (e.g. dark elves slaughtering innocents with swords and holding up their severed heads with the spinal cord still attached), and nobody in my life was stupid/crazy enough to think that such drawings indicated anything other than a fertile imagination and an arguably unhealthy interest in fantasy literature. This isn't a left/right issue. It's a rational/stupid issue.

 

[Kal'Stang]

This is just idiotic.

Arrested dad wants answers after daughter draws gun pic | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
Jessie Sansone and his family are reeling after he was arrested and strip searched by police after his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a man with a gun in her Kitchener, Ont., kindergarten class. The 26-year-old father of four said Saturday the sketch was supposed to be him, getting the bad guys and monsters.
The school must have thought differently, as after Nevaeh drew it Wednesday, the school contacted Family and Children's Services and they called police.
Waterloo Police met Sansone at the school when he tried to pick up his kids he was told he was charged with possession of a firearm. He was then handcuffed and put him in one of the several squad cars waiting outside, he said.
"When I was finally able to see my family, after this ordeal was over, my little girl ran up and gave me a hug me and asked: 'Daddy, are you mad at me?'" said Sansone, his voice choked. "How could she ever think that I would be mad at her? She knows this has to do with her drawing."
Sansone, and his wife, Stephanie, have been together since they were teenagers. They have four children, aged 10 years to 15 months, and Stephanie is five-months pregnant with their fifth child.

I am literally speechless and dumbfounded. What the hell can you say to this much stupidity? I thought I was done being shocked at anything. Guess I was wrong.

 

[digsbe]

Moderator's Warning:

Stop the personal attacks and discussing other users or there will be consequences.

 

[Wake]

My son's 3rd grade teacher was from California, newly moved here. At a parent-teacher conference with me, she expressed concern about my son's drawings of guns and people shooting guns, including one of a man shooting other men, which he'd said "was Daddy shooting monsters and bad guys".

Here's what I told her... "Ma'am, this is South Carolina. Most folks here own guns. Many folks hunt and shoot recreationally. South Carolina respects and safeguards the rights of its citizens to defend themselves by whatever means necessary too. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my son's drawings or his attitude about guns, that's perfectly normal for our region and our culture, and you're just going to have to get used to it."


That shut her up quick. :mrgreen:

Very well put.

At times I get so sick of that overly-sensitive, politically-correct behavior.

 

[henrypanda]

Yes, kid's pictures certainly excuse this level of government force levied against the rights and liberties of the individual.

What's wrong in the drawing, the government as done foolish thing by arresting the father

 

[Dragonfly]

Sorry if I missed it in the 12 pages of posts - but has anyone from the area of Canada that this alleged incident took place been able to verify if it actually went down like the media portrays it?

Most of the crap I read about this comes from sources outside Canada. I'd love to know if there's more to the story than being "reported".

Can anyone confirm this that lives in the area where this supposedly happened?

Jessie Sansone: Canadian man shocked by arrest after his daughter drew a picture of a gun at school | Mail Online <-- clicky

I'd be more willing to trust a Canadian source than something from the UK.

 

[Wiggen]

Epecially from the Daily Mail.