Ken Bone, the man who had a brief brush with fame after he was declared the "winner" of the second presidential debate, said that his son was suspended from school and the subject of a police investigation because he posted of photo of the two of them at a shooting range.
Bone posted the photo on Twitter, replying to a tweet by Kyle Kashuv, one of the survivors of the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, and a supporter of the Second Amendment.
Here's a pic of my son learning to shoot safely under my supervision. Maybe those security guys want to talk to him.
Kashuv was recently questioned by police at his school after he posted photos of himself at a gun range on Twitter.
“I just wanted to tell (Kashuv), you didn’t do anything wrong, you were learning to shoot with your father, I do the same thing with my son,” Bone said.
Bone said that after a school administrator saw the tweet his son was "suspended from school pending a police investigation."
Remember this photo from a few days ago? Well, a school administrator saw it and now my son is suspended from school pending a police investigation.
Bone told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he tried to explain to the principal of the St. Clair ROE Safe School the photo was posted by him and not posted by his son.
“It’s mine,” Bone said. “(My son) doesn’t even have a Twitter account.”
He said that his son should not have been punished and pointed out that the photo was taken over a year ago, before his son started attending the school.
“I’m glad they’re looking out for the safety of the kids, but this seems like something that could be settled with a phone call or a meeting with school officials,” Bone said. “The photo was taken before he even went to that school. He hasn’t done anything wrong or illegal. And it was said by me, so there’s no reason to punish him for it.”
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