Schools no longer letting kids wear Guns N' Roses t-shirts

[slashisvr]

yeah a smiliar incident happend at the Birmingham international airport in the UK, some dude was wearing a "Guns N Rollers" t shirt and the guards ordered him to wear it inside out because it is a terror threat or some bollocks

[Pinball Wizard]

What are they thinking?!? That the kids will rip the guns off the shirt and kill everybody?!?

That's RIDICULOUS!!! 

[Robman?]

I wear a velvet revolver shirt to school, i saw this one? teacher looking at me suspiciously, i lahged to myself and walked on by, she probably thought it was a sexual metaphor.

It is a sexual metaphor.? ?

Really? wikipedia says it was just made up, can i have a link?

[Katrin]

That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I wear my GnR- Shirts all the time. In my school the teachers and school authorities coudn't care less what everyone wears. Besides, in a free country everyone should have the right to wear whatever they want.
And I can't see a connection between wearing shirts with guns or the word "guns" printed on them and shooting people. That's just ridiculous!
I'm glad I don't live in the US. ?

[melissa]

That's fine, nobody said you had to care in Eastern Europe. 

i think we should care, because the real problem is violence , and we have plenty of that . kids here don't have guns but have fists. but banning a t-shirt won't solve the problem.

[chriskon72]

Yeah that's pretty retarded.
 
I'm a little older than most of you guy's and your posts are actually making me feel old

Whatever...I was in high school 87-91 and one my freinds was wearing a shirt that said "Van Halen kicks ass! and our Chemistry teacher made him turn it inside out.... guess he didn't agree that Van Halen kicks ass

I was wearing my favourite GNR Shirt with "Get in the Ring Motherfucker World Tour '91" written on the back my Mom gave shit at the mall... I don't want you to wear that shirt when your out with me...hahaha funny she had no problem with the pretty tied up logo shirt that I had a little while later. 

[.Seal]

Long live USA! 

[slashisvr]

its getting worse over here in the UK, 15 year old kids are getting shot and killed, but how is a shirt gunna hurt you?fuck knows, glad im not in school now

[lennonisgod]

i had my GNR tshirt on last week in school and i got kicked out.there again,im 26 and shouldnt be hangin around schools (so my restraining order says) 

Haha, that's terrible.  I graduated in 2001, just a few months before September 11th and before that I was probably the only kid out of 2000 students in that high school to wear GN'R shirts.  I can't believe what a trend they have become as of late, that's awesome.  Of course I'm in college now and nobody is going to say anything to you about the clothes you wear. My oldest nephew is in 2nd grade and I wonder if he's too young to get started wearing a GNR shirt to school, to test out this "new rule," if indeed it does exist.  His mom would probably "shoot" me though. I'm going to guess though and agree that this rule probably does exist in the town I live. They are so fucking strict with EVERYTHING here and it gets rather fucking annoying.  Here's an example and this is a little immature, but mind you it was about 8 years ago; I farted in my English class and I was called to the office a few days later and the principal told me that if it happened again, I would get a 2 game suspension (I played basketball) and 2 days suspended from school.  Keep in mind I was a freshman in high school (about 8 years ago as I said), so I can't even imagine how much worse it has become since then! I'm just waiting for the headline, "Kid in Guns N' Roses t-shirt shoots and kills classmates."  Then the media will start saying that "people that listen to Guns N' Roses shoot people."

[kyrie]

My school banned ALL rock tshirts back in the day, but rap shirts were ok (this was done by our bitch-nazi of a principal who hated children and had no place being in the education business). It didn't matter what was on the shirt either, if it was a rock band your parents were called in. Funny thing some kid wearing a cop-killer shirt was ok because it was rap (Ice-T).

Seriously, that's how fucked up some of these nutjobs really are. Promoting murder is fine so long as you don't listen to the "devil's music" that is rock n' roll.

"Unfortunately, you really can't sue.  If clothing, dyed hair, extreme piercings, etc. cause a disruption to the learning environment (in the eyes of administrators at the school), they can make you change or, if you refuse, suspend you for being disruptive. "

How does hair and piercings cause a disruption? Yet another way the educational system is essentially a way to control kids and try and mold them into the "norm." And people wonder why kids rebel.

[Mandy.]

If they really think that this is going to stop any sicko who wants to shoot the whole school, then go ahead.

That's just retardaded.

[ppbebe]

my high school had uniform. Underneath it we could wear whatever T-shirts but gosh it had lots of silly rules. almost surreal,  like on the length of skirts, the colour of socks.... so ridiculous that everyone was like the rules were there to be broken. And tried to dress down sneakily. Made me laugh.

[stinson4ever]

they wouldnt let me wear my guns @ wiskey shirt.

[Robman?]

they wouldnt let me wear my guns @ wiskey shirt.

i was gonna get one of those, but my school, and every school in Texas has a
policy against alchoholic beverages, even though the whisky is the venue. so was it for the guns or the whisky?

A kid at my school wore a guiness shirt, he told the teacher it was for the book of record, his dad got it with a case of beer

[SuperMike]

I wore my GN'R shirt (the one with the circle logo) in school and I didn't get any complaints from the teachers.

[themovieaddict.com]

I wear a velvet revolver shirt to school, i saw this one  teacher looking at me suspiciously, i lahged to myself and walked on by, she probably thought it was a sexual metaphor.

It is a sexual metaphor.   

Really? wikipedia says it was just made up, can i have a link?

It isn't a sexual metaphor.

It works as one, but that's not why they chose the name. Scott liked the word "Velvet" and they chose "Revolver" for obvious reasons - because of their relation to Guns and because Slash loves the album.

[axlslover]

I know my kids are still wearing their gnr t shirts to school, most of the teachers and principals like gnr.

[redlespaul]

they wouldnt let me wear my guns @ wiskey shirt.

i was gonna get one of those, but my school, and every school in Texas has a
policy against alchoholic beverages, even though the whisky is the venue. so was it for the guns or the whisky?

A kid at my school wore a guiness shirt, he told the teacher it was for the book of record, his dad got it with a case of beer

A 6th grade kid at my school showed up to class in a Guiness shirt earlier this year...I asked him about it, and he honestly (no kidding) thought it said "Genius."  He had never heard of Guiness before.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I graduated HS in June, and I never had a problem with the above said situation.