Posted on 12/03/2017 9:50:29 AM PST by Simon Green
“A community groups (sic) has a strong message for parents this Christmas,” Buffalo, NY’s wivb.com reports. “They want to help keep toy guns out of children’s hands…to prevent them from getting their hands on a real one.” Ellipsis indeed. How does that work? . . .
“Whatever you put in a child’s hands that’s what he feels comfortable with and you put a toy gun in his hands at an early age and when he gets older he’s going to want the real thing,” said Leonard Lane, president of Buffalo F.A.T.H.E.R.S organization.
That’s why Lane is encouraging parents to give up their child’s toy guns this Christmas and exchange it for a different toy, as part of the annual Toy Gun Exchange at the Delavan Grider community center.
Lane says it’s an effort to help stop gun violence by teaching children at an early age that guns are nothing to play with.
“I understand how a mother may feel wanting to get something her child would like, but what we don’t want to do is make a child feel comfortable with a toy gun,” said Lane.
Damn! I knew I shouldn’t have let my daughter play with that crack pipe!
But seriously folks, what’s wrong with a young American growing up to be an adult American who wants to keep and bear arms? Equally, what does F.A.T.H.E.R.S. stand for? Google is not my friend there.
The really scary part? Buffalo’s finest are on board with the toy gun buyback program.
“Little kids like to play cops and robbers but you know in the environment we live in, there’s so much violence in this world that there’s so many other options for kids to have fun,” said Capt. Steve Nichols with Buffalo police.
Capt. Steve Nichols says some toy guns look real and many times young children have used those toy guns to commit crimes.
“Even with toy guns they reach an age where they start taking off the orange tip and they start pretending that they’re real guns and try and use them in robberies or other things and really all that’s going to do is get them hurt,” said Capt. Nichols.
That’s why the message to parents this holiday is clear put –even the toy guns — down.
My sweet little grandson has a “collection” of nerf guns and he went on the internet the other day and asked me for another one for Christmas. I know he is going to be a policeman when he grows up!!!
Grandma will get him another nerf gun!
My sweet little grandson has a “collection” of Nerf guns and he went on the internet the other day and asked me for another one for Christmas. I know he is going to be a policeman when he grows up!!!
Grandma will get him another Nerf gun!
Sorry!!!!
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Have the learned to put orange tips on their real guns yet?
Well, at least they can keep their real ones.
And out here in the netherlands of Upstate NY, they will.
Meanwhile, I’m putting toy guns in the Marine Toys for Tots collection box at work.
I built models of race cars and dragsters as a kid. Thought I do have a bit of a lead foot even as an immature punk with a 68 Charger I never street raced, let alone caused an accident because of such dumbassedness. With this logic does providing sex ed to kids turn them into prostitutes and porn stars?
So, when they take the toy guns away, what will they do about going ‘bang’ with forefinger and thumb? Don’t laugh, look at school suspensions for just doing that! How about kids carving wooden guns? I saw that done in shop class at high school!
This is classic ‘reductio ad absurdum’ as their nanny-state goal inevitably leads to a ridiculous, absurd, or impractical place. STUPID, it BURNS!
Great Idea!
Beats a wig and Lipstick.
I have the opposite perspective:
I want to help keep toy guns out of children’s hands…to encourage them to get their hands on a real one.
Hollywood makes millions from movies with so much graphic violence, much of it with guns, that I don't even go to the movies any more. Is everyone in Hollywood a hypocrite?
“My sweet little grandson has a “collection” of Nerf guns and he went on the internet the other day and asked me for another one for Christmas. I know he is going to be a policeman when he grows up!!!
Grandma will get him another Nerf gun!
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Hell, how old is he? Get him a Daisy or a.22.
F.A.T.H.E.R.S.?
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S elf defense?
Here we have “New York Values” on display.
No ... they don't get paid to bang anything that moves as soon as they are able, and to kill the inevitable results.
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