Weapons in School
The Treason of the Canadian Government
Canada has ordered its school administrations to permit a special exception to Sikhs from the prohibition against carrying weapons on school grounds. Because it is a part of the Sikh religion that males be armed with a dagger, "ceremonial" but nonetheless dangerous, the local school authorities have been forbidden to restrict Sikh boys from carrying these weapons.
All the politically correct media hasten to inform you that there have been no incidents of these daggers, called kirpans, being used in fighting in Canada.
They're lying, of course. Kirpans were used in fighting in Canada, for example, at a temple brawl in Surrey in 1997. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.
A RCMP officer [Grant Learned] who witnessed the brawl asked "At what point does it become an offensive weapon? That's the grey area."
It's NOT a "grey area." Any weapon may potentially be used for offense, or for defense, or for sporting competition, whether it is a dagger, a bow-and-arrow, or a .357 Magnum revolver. It becomes an offensive weapon when it is used for attacking. It isn't an offensive weapon at any other time.
School weapons policies are designed to be preventative; they aren't intended to restrict weapons only from proven troublemakers.
If kirpans haven't been used in a school fight yet, then it is only a matter of time. When the fight comes, the Sikh youths will have a decisive and lethal advantage over the non-Sikh youths. The courts of Canada should not grant exceptional permission for weapons carrying to one ethnic group, while denying it to other groups.
If the Sikhs' reason for carrying daggers really is religious, then they should be the first to understand that others might also feel a moral duty to have weapons with them at all times.
If religious conviction is the key to getting an exception, it should be sufficient for anyone, Sikh or not, to say "It is my personal religious conviction that I should carry a weapon on school grounds." If, after saying that to the school and government officials, it turns out that you are still denied permission to carry your weapon on school grounds, or punished for carrying it there, then the Sikh exception isn't really a religious exception, but a political one, partisan toward a particular group and strongly to the disfavor of other groups.
No, this isn't "cheating." Your religion is exactly what you say it is. No more, no less, and nothing else. If you say that your religious belief requires you to carry a weapon in school, then it does, and that's the end of that. The only way Sikhs may receive special permission from the government to carry their kirpans where those same authorities prevent you from carrying a big hunting knife is that Sikhs would be getting, for political reasons, more religious freedom than you can get.
To put it another way, if Sikhs can claim a religious right to carry a weapon to school, but you cannot, then their citizenship is of a higher grade than your citizenship is. Their freedom is greater than yours is. Their presence in Canada is more legitimate than yours. That's what it means when they get rights that you can't get.
So all you non-Sikh Canadian youths, start your religion today. Wear your knife—in a sheath, of course—to school. Tell your teachers and the principal that you have it, and that it is a requirement of your religion. If you think that God might be angry with you, if you did not carry the knife, then tell them that, too. If you get into trouble, take your school system to court. Use the Sikh's special exception as a precedent toward getting your own exception.
We all hope that fighting will not occur in the schools. But, if it does, we may believe that God would not want some teenagers to be without advantages that the other side has.