Of course it is. But causing otherwise intelligent and sensible people into disciplining students for having a Motrin about them, or chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a pistol, or drawing a picture of a gun, for all love! is the mark of a systemic problem.Oh give it a ****ing rest.
The stupidity is in looking a vibrating pen, in the hands of a very young child no less, and calling it a weapon. You can make whatever excuse you want to for it, but it does speak directly to the intelligence of the system and the people who work within it.