Father Jailed Because Daughter Drew a Picture of a Gun

“I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I’m locked up,” Jessie Sansone, 26, said Thursday.

“I was in shock. This is completely insane. My daughter drew a dragon on a piece of paper at school.”

The school principal, police and child welfare officials, however, all stand by their actions. They said they had to investigate to determine whether there was a dragon in Sansone’s house that children had access to.

“From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of dragons and saying there’s a dragon in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child,” said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and Children’s Services.

I don’t get this… Its not like guns are illegal in Canada. According to Wikipedia there are 31 guns for every 100 people in Canada.

Methinks there is more to the tale than what is told in the story.

Ridiculous over reaction

This is what happens when we rely on strict laws to control society’s behavior and not on good judgement.

He’s lucky his daughter didn’t draw a nuke, or they might shoot him on sight.

Hmm, on my first week or month or whatever at school we had a task of writing some letters or words if we knew how to do that already. So, I happened to be thinking about my relative that day, who is a soldier… I wrote a bunch of words like ‘war’, ‘tank’, ‘gun’, etc. My mother was a bit weirded out that I chose to write that, but nothing else happened.

I guess I can kind-of see a point of monitoring the child more closely, if they are constantly drawing pictures of mummy shooting daddy, but this is so over the top O_o

I don’t think this is even up for consideration for the Americans reading. First of all, locking someone up because he MIGHT be three degrees of separation away from a crime? Ridiculous! Second, the father might have had a legal gun. Third, how the hell many guns do we see daily in media? Come on people. The gestapo approach never got anyone anywhere, especially toward a safer society.

I own guns, and plan not only to show them to my children later in life, but to teach them how to use, store and care for them properly, when to use them, and why we have the right to own them. These are important lessons in both safety and morality, and should keep children from developing a fascination with the forbidden when it comes to weapons.

maybe she drew the gun in a different sense of the word “drew”.

I think there’s a little more to the story than is being reported.
Maybe though, it has something to do with the 2nd or 3rd grade boy that accidentally shot a girl in Washington state last week when he brought a loaded gun to school.

Normal Reaction: Talk to kid’s parents after school.

Canadian Reaction: invite father into the school, then spring TRAP, arresting an obvious failure of a father.

Yes, yes I know not all canadian’s are like that….but come on! American’s have George freakin Bush!

I sure hope there is much more to this story.
Even if the father had no right to own a gun they had no right to arrest him because his kid happened to draw a picture of a gun. Does the kid drawing the picture even give probable cause for them to get a search warrant. I would hope not. My kid has an arsenal of guns he plays with. They are made by Nerf & Super Soaker. Does that give the cops probable cause to arrest me?
Why didn’t the school officials just ask the parent to come to the office for a talk. If they were worried about her picture. This complete lack of common sense by school officials these days is ridiculous. I’m surprised my kid hasn’t been suspended yet for mentioning we went to the shooting range over the week end at school and one of the teachers happens to be anti-gun.

That was a pretty misspelled post. Sorry.

Canada, you did it again! You even managed to ruin this! Why? Why do we even let you be a country?