Zero-tolerance gun policy runs counter to gun-safety classes at school: "When Nick Ziegeweid signed up for a firearms safety course at Winona Middle School earlier this fall, he was told to bring his shotgun. Better to learn how to handle the equipment he'd use when hunting than to have an instructor show him how to handle a gun he'd never seen.
But when the 12-year-old boy attended his first class Oct. 11, school administrators and instructors met him and about 40 other students outside the school to remind them they couldn't bring their guns inside.
The reason: the district's year-old 'zero-tolerance' policy prohibits students from carrying guns on school grounds, even if they are unloaded and used only for instructional purposes."
But when the 12-year-old boy attended his first class Oct. 11, school administrators and instructors met him and about 40 other students outside the school to remind them they couldn't bring their guns inside.
The reason: the district's year-old 'zero-tolerance' policy prohibits students from carrying guns on school grounds, even if they are unloaded and used only for instructional purposes."
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