Wisconsin school district Veteran’s Day tribute cancelled over 21 gun salute

According to this story a Veteran’s Day event which was to be held in Wisconsin’s Eau Claire school district has been cancelled over a dispute about firearms. Officials of the school district oppose the use of firearms during the course of the event.

The firearms in question? There was to be a 21 gun salute. As we all know, during a 21 gun salute the weapons fire blanks–not live ammo. But still they would not budge.

Here is more:

For the first year, a local veterans group will not be holding a Veterans Day program at the Eau Claire area school district, the decision was because of a disagreement over firearms. The Patriotic Council says it will not be able to teach younger generations about the sacrifices veterans have made this year because the organization isn’t able to properly do so. “It’s really hard to tell the veterans they’re not allowed to bring those rifles in,” says Olsen. “Which, the only purpose is, to honor our flag and our country and to teach the kids.” The Eau Claire school district says while it wishes to honor the memory and sacrifice of veterans on Veterans Day, it’s become more difficult to do so. “We like to honor the veterans; we bring them in on a regular basis,” says Tim Libham, the Executive Director of Administration with the district. “There are just some conditions that we have to adhere to and the shooting of guns, even with blanks, is something we don’t feel is appropriate given society, and the concerns that we have and that the community has, on school premises.” Leibham says, “We’d had family and students that were uneasy, even with blanks being fired on school premise.” But, Olsen says when it comes to firing the 21-gun salute during the program, there shouldn’t be limitations. She says, “I was hoping maybe we could find a compromise, but when it comes to the weapons, there was no compromise.”

This of course is a harmless show of respect and thankfully a local Burger King allowed the ceremony to take place at a different location, but this shows us how far the politically correct, gun-grabbing, anti-second amendment hoplophobes will go to push their radical agenda. They have sunk to a new low.