Child's life to be ruined over cap gun

In my day, if someone took a toy cap gun to school (as they often did), what do you think the school's reaction would be?

Trust me, they wouldn't do what schools in Newton County, Georgia, are doing.

A 10-year-old student at Fairview Elementary School has been arrested, fingerprinted, and charged with a felony because he took a cap gun to school. The gun was a toy that cost $6 at Wal-Mart.

Now he may be sent to juvenile lockup until he's 21.

The boy was arrested after school when several sheriff's deputies stormed his home. Authorities say he had threatened schoolmates with the gun - but this turned out to be untrue.

Now the life of a 10-year-old boy who wants to become a cop when he grows up is in shambles all because schools don't know how to exercise common sense.

I sure as shit don't feel any safer, do you?

(Source: http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=124359&catid=40&GID=juD5/d++YtmiZjwqGKDay6Tw1TGed4c0A5QCiVJAOvA%3D)