Posted on 07/11/2016 6:28:24 AM PDT by marktwain
According to the Phoenix City Council, Prescott Pete’s Highfalutin Shooting Gallery is crimethink and not allowed. The arcade type of entertainment allows customers to shoot laser guns at targets that appear in the arcade. No targets appear on humans. It is simple fun with toy guns. But even toy guns must not be allowed at the Phoenix event because "guns". From dcourier.com:
On Monday, July 4, the City of Phoenix will recognize Independence Day by hosting one of the state’s largest annual events.Notice that the event committee agreed that the arcade was a "great exhibit". It is to be inferred that they would have been allowed except for one thing: guns.
Known as Fabulous Phoenix 4th, the free family-oriented celebration will feature 50 vendors.
Despite putting in an application, Prescott Pete’s Highfalutin Shooting Gallery, a mobile game that uses lasers to set off random targets within an Old West saloon setting, will not be one of those vendors because it was deemed inappropriate for the event after a review from the event’s committee.
“Everyone agreed that you have a great exhibit, but the City of Phoenix is very conscious about the perception of violence given the current climate,” stated the rejection letter.
“It’s a pretty straight forward decision that this committee made,” said Gregg Bach, public information officer for the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department, which is in charge of organizing such events. “The planning committee was not comfortable with an exhibit/game that presented guns in a fun or glorified way.”
They are criminalizing the thought of a gun. Proven fact. Why they harassed the kid who “chewed a poptart into the shape of a gun.”
The purpose is to prepare us for when they come and take them from non-violent citizens, while leaving them in the hands of violent criminals.
I can’t believe this happened in Phoenix ... Tucson, Flagstaff maybe ... but Phoenix ?
And just last week, I caught heavy flak for calling Phoenix a liberal city.
What say you marktwain? Compared to Yuma. Or Casa Grande.
Back in the 40’s, you could go to the carnival and shoot an actual .22 rifle at targets.
http://www.gundigest.com/gun-blogs/carnival-fun-with-a-22-rifle
We’ve become a nation of pussies.
I’m ancient ... remember actual shooting galleries with actual (shot out) .22 cal rifles and sintered iron “gallery load” cartridges?
Still existed in the 1970s.
I do remember seeing shooting galleries at the state fair back in the 70’s, but I think they used a type of BB gun that pumped some low pressure air into the gun.
The City of Phoenix proper is very liberal. As with most urban centers, it has large minority populations and votes Democrat.
The metroplex is far less liberal.
Even Minnesota allows laser tag and that is shooting a laser gun at people.
I went to an extremely liberal high school in the 1980’s. Every year, we would have The Assassination Game, which was based on a movie, and involved dozens of kids toting around toy dart guns for weeks.
Nobody blinked twice.
And I repeat - this was a very liberal place.
What happened in the last 30 years?
Does Billybob’s at the Stockyards in Fort Worth still have their “shooting” gallery?
The last REAL shooting gallery I ever saw was at a carnival in Farmington NM back in 1975. Before that time all carnivals had them. People would line up to try and shoot out the dot with three shots or break the chain holding a $100 dollar bill.
The “Californiazation” of Arizona (and Utah, Colorado, and Texas) continues.
It began with the murder of John Kennedy, and when Bobby Kennedy was murdered the news media led the frenzy into hysterics. They immediately began a propaganda blitz to destroy everything considered AMERICAN and replace it with a neutered European version.
The independent AMERICAN FRONTIERSMAN became passe’ and the suave and sophisticated European version of the “male” was pushed as the norm.
Notice the TV shows before 1968 and after. Westerns like GUNSMOKE, written for an adult audience were dumbed down to kiddie shows. Movies from the 1940s and 1950s, shown on TV were hacked to pieces to remove all “violence”.
Arizona is an open carry state but they are afraid of laser guns? That makes no sense.
i learned how to shoot with an old hex barrel .22 short winchester gallery special
later shot on high school rifle team Remington 513 T..how times have changed
http://www.guns.com/2014/04/09/winchester-model-62-pump-action-rifles-ultimate-gallery-gun/
For just the opposite reason, what they did may actually be a good idea. Here’s the logic.
In AZ, *real* guns are ubiquitous. As such, everyone must mind their P’s and Q’s and be socially polite. But guns are serious tools and not to be played with, or “horseplayed” with.
That is, there is no longer any place for *toy* guns.
Toy guns are for when children cannot get nor be trained with real guns. And the rules for real guns are very serious indeed. Thus, toy guns are just accidents waiting to happen.
A great rule for children about guns. While you have been trained about guns, you cannot even guess about the training other children have had, if any. So if one of your playmates exhibits a gun, get out of there, now.
This rule still applies into adulthood. I have seen adults who *should* know better horseplay with guns. And when I see that, I leave the area.
So what about toy guns? In truth, they are only for restricted areas, for use by adults that understand guns. Not the general public, and not for children.
Children need to learn about real guns. And real guns are not toys.
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