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Bullies use peanut butter to threaten kids with allergies

Ok, ok. Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first. Kids get bullied and beaten up all the time, and maybe it’s more dangerous (it’s certainly more comical) to threaten a kid with a peanut butter sandwich. It’s also really dangerous to throw rocks at kids, too. So, if you’re reading this, kids, don’t throw rocks or peanut butter sandwiches at other children. It’s wrong.

But people, you are hysterical! From the comments of the article:

Kim Philby from Ottawa, Canada writes: This kind of bullying should merit the same reaction as bullying by pointing a loaded gun.

John Smith from Ottawa, Canada writes: This gives credence to retroactive abortion.

Dear God. Is this for real? Let’s retro-abort the healthy 7-year old who smeared the weaker 7-year old with peanut butter. Let’s throw him in jail, because his behavior is akin to waving a gun around.

This is exactly the kind of hysterical behavior that marginalizes kids with “special issues”. You know what else causes deadly anaphylaxis? Bee stings. My school yard had an apple tree in it. Apple trees attract bees. Should that tree have been cut down because some kid in the school had an allergy? (let’s completely set aside the bullies who would whip apples at the girls, leaving us bruised and often bleeding - ban apples!!)

I asked a military friend of mine, “Does the Army allow people with peanut allergies to sign up?”

“Yeah.” (Army guys aren’t very wordy)

“So, how do they keep from getting sick?”

“They don’t eat peanuts.”

Made sense to me!

Look, every parent wants school to be a safe place for their kids. But any parent with a shred of memory should know that the schoolyard is inherently dangerous, because it’s filled with other people’s children! They fight - sometimes arms and teeth even get broken. They have food fights. They pick on the weaker kids to make themselves feel better. Nobody gets out of school without scars - be they emotional or physical.

But to liken a bully with a sandwich, who might kill one kid with a designer allergy, to a psycho with a gun who could shoot up his entire class - as has happened on too many occasion in the last few years - is irresponsible, ridiculous, callous, and hysterical.

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