So if someone saw the picture they wouldn't have know that.
They posted it RIGHT before going to Homecoming and created civil unrest at the school and caused panic..
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School officials perceived the photo as insensitive and issued suspensions to the teens.
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The students say it's unfair because the guns only shoot plastic pellets, and the photo was taken at home, not at school.
"This isn’t dangerous. You can’t kill someone with it,” Velez, 15, told CBS Boston Tuesday. “We didn’t shoot anyone. We were pointing them at the floor."
they should've gotten a harsher punishment for the caption
that's basically implying you're going to shoot up your school
yep. If I'm on instagram and see 2 kids from my school posted that picture 15 mins ago I'm gonna call all my friends and the officials telling them to get out of the school asap there are shooters on the way. That picture is some columbine shooter type stuff.
Bye at anybody saying no because if these were real guns and they had shot up the dance, everybody would have been fuming about the school doing nothing even tho they posted these pics.
Even though they probably weren't real guns, they have to realize that when people see something resembling a gun going towards a school, they get (rightfully) scared.