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In the wake of the Newtown massacre, school and government officials across the country are on edge. But as has oft been the case after such violent incidents, sometimes those officials overreact. Take this case from Montgomery County, as reported by the Post:

The parents of a 6-year-old Silver Spring boy are fighting the first-grader’s suspension from a Montgomery County public school for pointing his finger like a gun and saying “pow,” an incident school officials characterized in a disciplinary letter as a threat “to shoot a student.”

The first-grader was suspended for one day, Dec. 21. The family’s attorney filed an appeal Wednesday, asking that the incident be expunged from the boy’s school record amid concerns of long-term fallout.

School officials defended the suspension, though, saying that they had warned the child and parents about such behavior.