The father of a gun-toting North Dakota student is calling for a school principal to be fired after the student’s senior photo was banned from publication in the yearbook.
In the photo, Josh Renville, a senior at Fargo North High school, is pictured holding “his favorite” rifle and wearing a shirt emblazoned with the stars and stripes.
His father, Charlie, who called for the firing in a Tuesday post on Facebook, wrote that the image was rejected because “in their words, it promotes violence and breaks federal and state law.” He goes on to question how it is any different than pictures of soldiers during war or images of students who participate in trap or skeet teams.
The Renvilles submitted the photo for the school yearbook, but it was rejected by the high school.
You know pictures of the military are not typically submitted for a student's yearbook photo, and skeet shooters are actually participating in a school sponsored activity.
The photo of this kid looks like exactly the kind of thing that would cause the school to lockdown and for the SWAT team to be called out.
Nobody is attacking this kid's second amendment right to own a gun. They just don't want to traumatize the rest of the school by including his douchebag picture in the yearbook.
And by the way after seeing this picture I think the school should start patting this kid down before letting his Timothy McVeigh looking ass back in the building.
But that's just me.
He sure has purty lips...
ReplyDeleteEw. Go away.
DeleteI guess the father would approve of a photo then of two gay seniors kissing? Holding hands? How about a mixed race couple? Or a non-Christian holding up their religious book in the senior photo? Be careful what you wish for, Dad. Rules are in place to protect all of us.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have a sick feeling we'll be seeing that picture again some day along with the headline: "Were warning signs overlooked?"...
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DeleteCue in fake outrage in any of the ghostwritten-by-Nancy blogs/sites in 3...2...1...
DeletePatience, might take a few days. $arah and her scribble staff are too busy working on their outrage skit about the FLOTUS in her rap video.
DeleteI hate guns, but if the kid chose his gun as his senior photo prop, I think the photo should have gone in the yearbook, along with the photos of kids with their guitars, dogs, horses, cars. Now a days, senior photos are taken by professional photographers in studios, so he didn't bring his gun to school. Besides, an ROTC senior would probably be allowed to sport a uniform and gun in their photo.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know a student's yearbook photo was allowed to have a prop. Back in my day ("Yeah, tell us, you old fart") it was just a headshot or you had a limited choice of backgrounds and maybe the headshot of you over the back of the chair. Ah, the good old days. I would have loved to have had my headshot with me holding my saxophone, but if I had to give that up to not allow other people to hold all kinds of other things, some of which I would consider pretty crazy, I would have no problem with it. Oh wait, I didn't. In any case, there's zero way you can get a principal fired for upholding school policy. What the father should do is spend his time going to school board meetings, but I bet he never has.
DeleteMarvin, I wrote the above comment. For a few decades, kids have been allowed to take 'meaningful' props to the sitting. They can stand, sit, pose ala Burt Reynolds, etc. I think schools should seriously consider going back to cap and gown shots or head shots, sans props. Too many hot button props out there, just asking for trouble.
DeleteBack in the 1960's graduation photos were taken as head shots with no background. What is done today is total nonsense. If parents want to take their son or daughter a professional photographer and pay exorbitantly for a fancy photo to put on the mantel.
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Amen!
DeleteMost yearbooks photos have rules attached to them.
DeleteSuch as no sleeveless tank tops, no strapless dresses, that sort of thing. There is usually some sort of dress code for senior photos.
I know many require you to go to a studio and dress alike so the senior photos are uniform. The males all in white shirt, tie and jacket supplied by the photographer. The girls all wearing a similar drape for the top.
Everyone got the exact same background.
But whatever.
A gun in a senior yearbook photo is not appropriate.
Were their guns in my yearbook? Sure. The ROTC rifle team posed with their white wooden drill rifles. They did not pose with the real thing they used for target practice.
Good luck to this dad. The principal is not getting fired and his ammosexual kid is not getting his penis extender in the yearbook.
Gun-rubbers are such whiners.
ReplyDeleteHe looks like a moron holding that thing.
ReplyDeleteAlso, too, has his finger on the trigger. No safety training.
DeleteFinger is flat on the outside of the trigger guard.
DeleteDid he take it to the prom with him? Did they get a room afterwards?
ReplyDeleteWhat a tough guy...NOT! He does look reminiscent of that punk McVeigh.
ReplyDeleteSista Sara "punk ass" boy toy?
DeleteI really wonder if she understands where that term evolved and what it really means? Not.
The school could print the picture with the gun photoshopped out. The parents would still bitch about it but they couldn't say the picture wasn't used...
ReplyDeleteHere's the thing, if guns aren't allowed on school campuses then photos of students with guns shouldn't be allowed in school yearbooks.
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DeleteI doubt that tank top meets the dress code requirements for senior pictures either.
DeleteI raised my children in Moorhead, MN the sister city of Fargo. You would not believe the difference the Red River makes in attitude.
ReplyDeleteI can gaurandamntee ya' the dad is a country hick from red state ND. Man thing.
And I was raised on a farm.
Call me old school, but when I was in school-portrait day was about looking and dressing your best for the picture. I don't have kids but I'd hazard a pretty good guess that the picture would violate yearbook standards for most schools.
ReplyDeleteAdding to my above comment...being raised on a farm and around hunting, I STILL do not see any other reason for a gun. Period.
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Okay Dad, I'll back you about the right to print the picture the minute you show us Junior's enlistment papers......ROTC and Skeet/Trap teams pictures are usually shown IN ADDITION to their year book photo, usually in the section of the yearbook set aside for sports teams, drama club, etc.
ReplyDeleteAs for the kid? I usually don't like to pick on looks because you can't do much about DNA. That being said - Kid you can't pull of the dreaded steely-eyed stare (ala Eastwood) with pouty lips unless you're Lara Croft.
I just love that "Don't fuck with me" look this student of ignorance, has already mastered. May he have a short life to spread his hate.
ReplyDeleteOh please in a year he will be a bitter drunkard on welfare. Like sarah kids. She thinks she still has children. My god all grown cept the retard.
DeleteHe won't be on welfare unless he finds a way to get pregnant.
DeleteAnd he won't get disability unless he's actually held a job.
IF he was holding a trap or skeet rifle, I could see a glimmer of the point. But he is holding a gun whose only purpose is killing humans in large numbers very quickly. Yes, he has a 2nd amendment right and schools have dress codes and other behavior standards.
ReplyDeleteBut, but, but he's rill Amurican and a good guy with a gun who's going to take down those fucking sand rats that are everywhere in his country. You have no right to take away his chance at being a fucking hero, you maroon. Get the hell out of HIS country! You're either with him or against him! And if innocent people get injured or killed in his fire fight, well shit happens. Whatever you do, don't tread on him!
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Nothing says "hick" like having your picture taken with a flag, wearing a flag shirt, and holding a gun.
ReplyDeleteI think this photo should be banned because the kid is wearing a wife beater, never mind the stupid gun.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, what part of the second amendment says this idiots can wave their guns in our faces under any and all circumstances? This is getting old. I want my country back.
Then there are three guns in the picture....
Deletelol That kid is such a tool.
ReplyDeleteGo enlist! There's a loaded Kalshnikov waiting to put a hole in you overseas.
ReplyDeleteSucker!
Why so formal? I call them dick extenders!
ReplyDeleteOt but I almost lost a lung laughing so hard about Darth Trump.
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KU_Jdts5rL0&time_continue=1
Snow Snookie Strung Some Words Together For Us
ReplyDeletePrincess Dumbass of the Northwoods has re-emerged on social media to write words. The caps-lock key seems to be as sticky as the gummed-up corridors of her cerebellum are.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/snow-snookie-strung-some-words-together-us
Schools have all sorts of rules, some liberal, some restrictive. Typically caps are not permitted in yearbook photos. Depictions of alcohol or shirts and caps promoting alcohol, tobacco, and profanity are also forbidden.
ReplyDeleteSure we can argue a kid's yearbook photo is protected speech, but why not a girl in a bikini, a kid wearing clown makeup, a boy dressed as a girl, or a kid wrapped in the Confederate flag? A case can be made for almost anything,
The school is right on this, and it shouldn't be afraid to take a stand.
Yeah don't want any transgender students messing up the yearbook do we?
DeleteWhat a revolting society we live in when somebody thinks it's reasonable to equate the innate and human right of an individual to "be" his or her true gender in a school photo, with the non-innate and non-human right to brandish a manufactured weapon of death in a SCHOOL PHOTO.
DeleteI'll bet they have a dress code for senior pictures that forbids among other things tank tops.
DeleteThat is no senior photo.
I'm sorry Mr. Badass isn't showing teeth so we could black them out. Perhaps he has a few missing already?
10:25: Read my post again. I do not equate the two.
DeleteSchool stand tall. As a kid I would not want this in my school year book! He can free speech in his very own yearbook. Pos.
ReplyDeleteHe looks dumb enough and ammosexual enough to marry Bristol.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that her lumbersexual. Haha
DeleteThere used to be school clubs denoted as FFA (Future Farmers of America. Unless they now have clubs denoted as FTA (Future Terrorists of Amurka) that picture does not belong in any school publication.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, unless he is of legal age to own such a gun, he AND his asshole of a father should be arrested. Or maybe he's a VERY late graduater...
What "legal age to own a gun" are you talking about? I'm pretty sure a teenager is allowed to hold a long rifle in every state. Arresting him would just give these people legitimacy and publicity. Ignore them and they will quiet down.
DeleteAnd yes - senior pictures have gotten out of hand. The money involved, settings, multiple clothing changes etc is ridiculous. If the money spent on these things were donated to a local food bank a lot of people would eat.
Doesn't look like an ordinary 'long rifle' to me. Ya know, the kind people go hunting with. Looks more like an assault rifle, with an over sized magazine.
Deletewhat a goon
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ReplyDeleteThis guy photoshops dildos into photos of Republican politicians holding guns.
Cool. He should do this kid's photo.
DeleteBut it still won't make the yearbook.
Family values:
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More and more everyday..
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Does he also blame Obama when his dog farts?
DeleteSome m0r0ns....
Josh Renville looks like he is modeling for Soldier of Fortune.
ReplyDeleteI vote to keep individual photos simple.
ReplyDeleteA strange man I know posted a picture on FB with alleged Syrian children up to teens with guns to promote banning Syrians from the US. I thought of photos like this teen and the pictures of Tripp in KY with guns. The irony we can and do but they are all terrorists!
Wood pitchurz like this be OK with Daddy Renvile? Maybe iffn you took it front of the Waffle House?
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Like others here, senior year book pictures were done in dress clothes back in my day. Seen as a true benchmark in life; pride in one's self and the education one received. This young man is a dumbass as is his father.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, some years down the road he might have matured enough to regret such a dumb photo existing to possibly be used against him. He needs to keep it generic.
DeleteHey Joshie, go eat a fart!
ReplyDeleteI saw somewhere that the father claims his son plans to join the military after high school. I predict he'll wash out of basic training/boot camp.
ReplyDeleteThe main characteristic the military services are looking for is DISCIPLINE. This kid obviously doesn't know the concept.
Both parents longtime Guard members with rank.
DeleteAnd? That makes it even worse.
DeleteGay boys always over compensate.
DeleteGood for them. Still inappropriate.
DeleteHe will never make it in any branch of the service.
DeleteYou not only need discipline you also need to follow strict rules and regulations.
He obviously can't even follow the guidelines for acceptable senior yearbook photos. And yes, I'm sure he got a copy in print. The teachers probably even went through them in class.
He looks like he's flexing every muscle in his body, from head to toe.
ReplyDeleteThere are two violations of flag protocol in that picture. So much for patriotism.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't surprise me if the idiot father has had a longstanding beef with the principal.
ReplyDeleteThe school saved him from having a picture of himself in his Underroos in the Yearbook.
ReplyDeleteI'm with the school on this one. School photos shouldn't have weapons, be home made selfies, nor religious/political/mental condition barometers. Let me guess, a Trump voter? \
ReplyDeleteOT. If you're over twenty and still wearing your high school ring, get help
I don't think they do high school rings any longer. With so many people working in tech, typing and using hands and wrists against keyboards both rings and watches/bracelets have become extinct.
DeleteThey do but they're so expensive a lot of kids pass.
DeleteI actually bought a ring when I completed my second master's degree because I was so proud. I wore it for years. Now that I'm retired I finally took it off.
He looks like Elliot Rodger, the kid that killed 6 and injured 13 in Santa Barbara.
ReplyDeleteLord, he looks eerily like Timothy McVeigh.
ReplyDeleteSheesh