By: Kayleigh Hamilton

People will sometimes go to embarrassing lengths in their abject hatred of guns.

One state targeted a young child in a frenzied gun control craze.

But now they are facing serious blowback for what they did and could pay a big price.

The state of Hawaii has proven to be one of the most anti-gun states in America, despite the fact that they have big competition for that title from states like California or New York.

For one, their Supreme Court recently ruled that the “Spirit of Aloha” trumps the Constitution when it comes to gun rights.

Now, their Department of Education has taken their anti-gun madness out on a young child who didn’t mean any harm at all.

The boy was just trying to give his friends a gift, and it didn’t even involve real guns, nor was the gift ever even opened on school grounds, but because they resembled guns, all of them were suspended for an entire year.

Now the family is suing the Hawaii Department of Education for stunting their child’s education in order to satisfy their anti-gun insanity.

According to Hawaii News Now, “The mother of a Stevenson Middle School student is suing the Department of Education, claiming school officials wrongly suspended her son and caused him emotional distress by not rectifying the mistake.

“The lawsuit filed Monday stems from a Nerf toy called a gel-fire blaster, which shoots 7-8 millimeter water-based gel polymer balls that burst when they hit a target, similar to a paintball gun.”

This is very clearly not a real gun. It is a step above a squirt gun, and not a particularly big step either.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have had it at school, but to suspend him for an entire year is nothing short of horrific. His education will be seriously harmed because of a glorified squirt gun.

The article continues, “Heather McVay says her son’s eighth grade classmate gave him and other friends gel guns as wrapped holiday gifts last December.

“She says although her son did not open or use the toy gun on campus, school officials suspended him and 8 other students for one year for having the toys on campus.

“In a letter to parents in January, Stevenson’s principal said one of the students discharged a loaded gel gun on campus after school, striking another student.

“McVay says her son was not involved and appealed to overturn his suspension.”

While it is obviously not right that another student was soaked by the water gun on school grounds, the boy in question was not the one who did the soaking.

And even if he was the one who did the soaking, perhaps a simple detention would have been the more appropriate response, not a year-long suspension.

Ultimately, this almost certainly happened because the people involved had strong political views about guns and wanted to make a statement.

It is sad that young children had to pay the price for the political obsessions of the authority figures at their school.