Say Anything Blog

Because gun ownership apparently isn’t a 2nd amendment right or anything.

BEAVER DAM (WKOW) — Beaver Dam school officials placed a middle school teacher on administrative leave after discovering a photograph of the teacher with a gun on the teacher’s Facebook page.

In the photo, teacher Betsy Ramsdale is training a rifle at the camera.

Ramsdale emailed 27 News in response to our inquiries saying she “removed the photo immediately” and that she is not “interested in any controversy.” Ramsdale did not comment on her motivation for posting the photo.

Because she needs motivation for posting a picture of herself with a gun on a personal (albeit online) photo gallery?

The reaction from some of the school officials and parents is just unbelievable:

Schools superintendent Donald Childs told 27 News he is unaware of any sinister intent on the teacher’s part and said the use of the photo “appears to be poor judgment.”

Childs said the Facebook photo was brought to the attention of school district officials by a concerned staff member at Beaver Dam Middle School.

Ramsdale’s biography on the school district website states she is in her first year of teaching at the middle school.  Department of Public Instruction records show Ramsdale has been licensed to teach since 1996.

Middle school parent Jennifer Buzzell said the teacher’s decision to post the photograph was concerning. 

“I don’t think it’s appropriate,”  Buzzell told 27 News.  “I’m not sure why this would be on the computer at all.”

Maybe because she likes guns?  And there is absolutely nothing illegal or objectionable about that?

What is unbelievable to me is how often the right to keep and bear arms is treated as if it weren’t, in fact, a right.

What if this woman had been suspended because she, say, wrote a blog post about one of President Obama’s policies?  Or because she posted a picture of herself at a church?  We’d all be outraged, because exercising your free speech and religious freedoms are rights.

Well, so is owning and bearing a gun.  It’s not some privilege.  Some embarrassing fetish weirdo, fringe kooks embrace.  It is an unalienable right per the bill of rights put in place by the founders of this country.  And it will remain so until the day the gun control nuts who can’t stand the idea of Americans taking a hand in their own defense amend the constitution to remove the right.  Which they won’t ever do because, contrary to the perception created by the media and the left, most Americans are just fine with guns.

If you ask me, these school officials who suspended this poor woman and embarrassed her for something as innocent as practicing her constitutional rights should be fired.

Update: Here’s the picture:

Color me underwhelmed.