Ping.
Hard to believe this was one of the Original 13 Colonies.
If passing laws work so great just make a law against robbery.But WAIT! there's more
and children who carry them are put in harm's way.
OH! So it's for the children. Then make a law against child endangerment instead of against ownership of replica guns.
Does this mean there will be no Red Ryder BB guns for Christmas?
Pass something utterly unenforceable, and then pat ourselves on the back like we’ve solved the problem.
** He said people are using the fake weapons in robberies **
I have an idea! Let’s pass a law to make robbery illegal.
Oh. Wait.
How to reduce crime in he’ll of socialist Baltimore:
Put the thugs in jail. On chain gangs. Picking up trash on I95.
Allow all law abiding citizens to arm themselves. The city DA encourages self defense.
No welfare if there is no mom and dad.
No welfare if the kids skip school.
Police are encouraged to do their jobs.
If all replica guns are banned, then do police have the right to assume any realistic looking weapon they encounter is in fact a fully functioning handgun?
The law of unintended consequences has not been repealed.
There is no legal definition of a replica. Just try to define it.
So now you’d better not chew your poptarts in the shape of what someone calls a “gun”. Or draw a sketch. Or “make a gun with your fingers”.
No legal definition means that all it takes is for someone to claim that “that’s a gun”, and it’s jail time.
The FBI probably has statistics on how many people were actually shot with replica guns last year.
Next, they should consider banning sporks. Those things are really dangerous.
Well, it should cut down on replica crime. You know, acts that look just like a crime but aren’t.
These should extend this law to prohibit people, especially youngsters, from gnawing Pop Tarts into shapes vaguely resembling guns. Such gnawed Pop Tarts could be mistaken for real guns.
“Nip it in the bud, Andy! Nip it in the bud.”
And you're idiots.
Were it not for the huge number of young black criminals, this would not be an issue.
Back in the 50’s I can’t think of anybody who didn’t have toy guns for playing cops/robbers, cowboys/indians, military.... and police weren’t shooting kids.
Next up - banning real guns that look too much like real guns.....
Did they ban pop tarts, too?
With that logic, it would make just as much sense to ban the city of Baltimore from policemen. Afterall the policeman killed the BB gun owner, while the BB gun did not hurt anyone that I am aware of.
Or on an entirely different point, when will it be that someone who is afraid of breaking the new law stops carrying a fake gun and gets killed by a thug because the defender gave up his deterrent, the fake gun (holstered or bulging from pocket.)
What the city might want to try is outlawing traditional crimes, such as abortion, and sodomy and enforce such laws with courage and severity.
If they just banned feral blacks they would probably cut violent crime by 90%. Oh, wait. Can I say that...?