A Texas school banned a seventh-grader from wearing his Star Wars t-shirt to class

A Texas school banned a seventh-grader from wearing his Star Wars t-shirt to class, Guns are a hot affair in the US appropriate now, accustomed a contempo access of baleful accumulation shootings. At the aforementioned time, Americans of all ages are agilely apprehension the Dec. 18 aperture of a cine loaded with affected weapons and gunfights: Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

These two civic capacity clashed afresh at a Texas average school, if seventh-grader Colton Southern was asked to awning his Star Wars t-shirt. The shirt depicted a Stormtrooper demography aim with a gun-like weapon, bounded ABC associate KTRK reported. Although George Junior High Academy administrators asked the boy to zip up his jacket, instead of reprimanding him, they nonetheless afire a able acknowledgment from his family.

“It’s political definiteness run amok,” his ancestor Joe Southern told KTRK. “You’re talking about a Star Wars t-shirt, a ceremony afore the better cine of the year comes out. It has annihilation to do with accoutrements or authoritative a stand. It’s just a Star Wars shirt.”

A agent for the academy commune said the shirt was banned because it violates the school’s dress code, which prohibits “symbols aggressive adjoin violence.” Joe Southern said his son had beat the bodice afore afterwards any problem.

The adventure highlights growing anxiety about accoutrements in the US, afterwards the San Bernardino, California, shootings that dead 14 humans and afflicted 17 added on Dec. 2. That tragedy has affected gun rights aback into a civic conversation, and one that is conceivably abnormally acrimonious in Texas.

Elsewhere in the state, pro-gun demonstrators faced off this weekend adjoin a accumulation of adverse protesters bouncing sex toys and authoritative bath noises at them abreast the University of Texas campus. A few months beforehand in Texas, a less-restrictive “campus carry” law took effect, acceptance humans to backpack buried accoutrements into classrooms and added accessible barrio in the state’s accessible and clandestine universities.

These laws wouldn’t administer to the academy that Southern attends, but schools like his accept acutely been at the centermost of gun-violence debates for addition reason. According to the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, there accept been 161 academy shootings in the US back 2013. Today, Dec. 14 aswell marks the three-year ceremony of the baleful cutting at Sandy Hook Elementary Academy in Connecticut.

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