But after the meeting, the leader of Ames’s Cub Scout pack, which oversees various dens, requested a meeting with his mother. The leader told Ames’s mother, Lori Mayfield, that her son was kicked out of his Cub Scout den, the mother said in an email to The Washington Post. The son’s den leader was apparently upset over Ames’s questions, particularly the one on gun control, Mayfield said. Ames researched the senator before the meeting and decided he would focus his questions on gun control, his mother said. This was her son’s fifth year in Cub Scouts.

Source: Washington Post October 20, 2017 10:30 UTC