Seventeen year-old Blake Douglass is upset that his school isn't allowing him to pose with a gun for his yearbook picture. All the Londonderry, New Hampshire youth wants to do is show off his love of skeet shooting, but the mean old school board has denied his request. They feel it's inappropriate for a student to pose with a firearm for a yearbook portrait. As a compromise they've allowed Douglass to use a different picture (without a gun) that displays his love for shooting things in another section of the yearbook dedicated to student hobbies.

Douglass, however, is still dissatisfied. His lawyer plans to file a complaint to the US District Court, and the National Rifle Association has said it will cover the expenses for Douglass because they see nothing in recent history that suggests teenagers and guns aren't a good mix. In fact, many in the NRA find the sight of a young man with a gun kind of exciting.

I myself do not. The sight of a young man with anything, let alone a gun, doesn't do much for me. But different strokes for different folks, I guess. I say, if Douglass wants to finally establish his rep as a top gun nerd at his high school then let him. I mean, if he sucks at football and never wins the science fair, let the kid have something he can be proud of. Who cares if it's recreational violence?

At any rate, I find it kind of hypocritical on the school administration's part, as they have let far worse things go in past yearbook photos. Blake Douglass "Boy with Gun" photo comes off tame in comparison. Here's a look at a few of the shockingly disturbing yearbook photos that the Londonderry School Board has approved:

Melissa Joe Babcock, Class of '53
At first glance, there is nothing particularly controversial about Miss Babcock's yearbook photo. She seems bright and pretty and perhaps even willing to make-out with you under the bleachers during sixth period. But then upon further examination one realizes that she's wearing earrings made out of kidney stones. Whose kidney stones, I haven't a clue, but kidney stones nonetheless. What kind of sick perverted person would wear kidney stones on their ears? Damned if I'd go to the prom with the likes of her. Okay, yes, if she asked me I would still make-out with her under the bleachers during sixth period, but I'd definitely tell her to take the kidney stone earrings off. Definitely.

Alex Myers, Class of '81
The guy has a nest of babies in his hair. How he got away with this, I don't know. Babies don't belong in nests and they sure as heck don't belong in Alex Myers' hair. I get the shivers every time I look at this photo.

Nelson Wolyiak, Class of '96
There are too many things unsettling about this photograph to list. Let's just say that it's bad enough to pose in your Cub Scout uniform for your yearbook photo, but to pose in your Cub Scout uniform holding an eerily realistic looking Joe Theisman ventriloquist dummy is like its own unique kind of horror. Wait, is that a Cub Scout uniform? Maybe not. Perhaps it's just some sort of military youth-type uniform. Looks homemade, actually. Yeesh. For somebody with a high-end yet freaky ventriloquist dummy that uniform is pretty tacky. I'd still make-out with him under the bleachers during sixth period, but he'd have to take off all those fake medals. I wouldn't want to get pricked and wind up with an affection.

This post is dedicated to Norway.

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