Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called

We need to talk to the powers that be and get to the root of this, because only a radical would use this. Go figure.

Don't you mean MATH hysteria, CPT? LMAO
Sorry, I'm just a puny guy. I couldn't help myself! Hahaha

They were correct, this only leads to larger and more forms of calculations with higher capacity for reasoning. Thinking is considered dangerous so it is better to limit to base functions. If the founding fathers had known about calculus and other forms of higher math and what they could do ( think nuclear weapons). They would have been out lawed.