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it's not a joke, dk.
i understand that you personally are a libertarian and would probably oppose this erosion of protections against unreasonable search & seizure, but fact is that libertarians are nowhere near a majority position in the conservative coalition that's been passing through it's waterloo---far more prominent are folk whose politics on social questions in particular tends to favor extension of the prerogatives of the police over the civil liberties of individuals under the general pretext of being "tough on crime"...
on the question at hand--it is a sad reality that much of what's been said above about the lack of a basis to expect rights to privacy that are meaningful as a student in a public school has been demonstrated over and over for many years. probably in almost every school at the point locker searches got started geared around the "war on drugs" in your school.
this is just an absurd and to my mind arbitrary extension of it.
at the same time, i also somehow blurred this thread into the other gun thread when i posted relatively early this morning, so really, most of what i've said is moot.
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