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Maryland Kid Suspended For Making Gun Out Of Pop Tart Given NRA Membership
BROOKLYN PARK, Md., May 30 (UPI) -- An 8-year-old Maryland boy suspended for biting his Pop-Tart into a gun shape received a National Rifle Association lifetime membership at a GOP fundraiser.
Josh Welch, who was suspended March 1 from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park for making a gun shape with his Pop-Tart, was presented with a $550 lifetime membership to the NRA by state House Minority Leader Nicholaus Kipke, R-Pasadena, during a Wednesday night fundraiser for Anne Arundel County Republicans, The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday.
Welch gave the certificate to his parents before returning to playing games on a cellphone at the event.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/05/30/Boy-who-made-Pop-Tart-into-gun-shape-gets-NRA-membership/UPI-56791369927706/#ixzz2UoTRZy7q
Josh Welch, who was suspended March 1 from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park for making a gun shape with his Pop-Tart, was presented with a $550 lifetime membership to the NRA by state House Minority Leader Nicholaus Kipke, R-Pasadena, during a Wednesday night fundraiser for Anne Arundel County Republicans, The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday.
Welch gave the certificate to his parents before returning to playing games on a cellphone at the event.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/05/30/Boy-who-made-Pop-Tart-into-gun-shape-gets-NRA-membership/UPI-56791369927706/#ixzz2UoTRZy7q
And he'll probably have a cushy job as a Fox News correspondent as an adult.
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