Posted on 10/30/2016 11:29:46 AM PDT by PROCON
Kids in Baltimore showed up to St. Frances Academy Community Center Saturday night to swap their toy guns for more peaceful prizes.
Fake weapons surrendered were replaced with basketballs, stuffed animals, art supplies and other goodies provided by the community. Water guns, replica guns and BB guns were then painted and used in the background of a mobile mosaic made by the nonprofit organization Mosaic Makers.
The completed art project will be displayed in honor of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police while playing with a toy gun two years ago.
Event coordinator Ralph E. Moore, Jr. emphasized that plastic weapons as a child serve as a gateway to real guns as an adult.
“The replica guns are what’s dangerous,” Moore told The Baltimore Sun. He added that toy guns today remind of toy cigarettes that were a popular item when he was a child. ”It was orienting kids to smoking. I think toy guns, in many ways, are doing the same thing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...
They really are that stupid, aren't they?
From the article:
Baltimore has seen its fair share of gun violence. Last year the city witnessed nearly 1,000 people shot and more than 300 killed by firearms.
So getting those dangerous toy guns off the street will finally end this senseless gun violence. SMH
Of course it will.....
Just as long as they sing Kumbaya......
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DUMBEST THING I’VE READ IN A LONG TIME!...
toy guns today remind him of toy cigarettes that were a popular item when he was a child. ”It was orienting kids to smoking. I think toy guns, in many ways, are doing the same thing.”
For what? X-gender barbies? What the heck happened to the friggin’ east coast? Sad dang situation up there.
Show me a toy, any toy, that is “non-violent” and I’ll show you a kid without any imagination.
Modern Child Behavioral Psychologists need to lining up at your door-step like Trump Supporters at the rally venues.
When I see this nonsense, I always think back to a show I watched about 20 years ago when the “experts” were trying to decide if there was a difference between boys and girls. They took two little boys and put them in a room with nothing but Barbie dolls. The boys immediately stripped the clothes off of the dolls and used the dolls as swords and began to have a sword fight. Funny stuff.
STOP IT! You’re ruining their “feel good” party.
Holy Geez.
Back in my day, we played war, oftentimes invoking World War II.
Can I say this without being banned due to political correctness? Sometimes we made teams, with the bad guys being the Japs or the Gerries.
But none of us grew up to be gang members or serial killers or perpetrating mass shootings.
The world has changed since many of us were younger.
In some ways, we might say the world has changed for the better. But in many other ways, things are definitely worse. I would not want to be a male child, who identifies as a male, growing up today.
The Mattel guns were outstanding. Wish I still had ‘em!
I wanted that so bad....too expensive back in the day for my parents to justify buying it.
The stupid is strong in that one!
Awww, this is so nice!
After the event, how many of these little kids went home to their single parent, multi-sibling of multi-absent-father households, pushed mom and her boyfriend’s drug paraphernalia out of the way, and settled in to hours of mindless TV or video games. Tomorrow, how many will eat sugar-laden junk somebody else paid for and go to school where they won’t learn anything but how racist this country is. How many will spend the evening and night unsupervised, out on the street, listening to vile music that glorifies drugs, killing police officers and mistreating women (and lots of them)?
What a freakin’ farce.
That does look like an expensive one.
I got a crack pipe for my gat holmes, yay!
Mommy made me. Now all I have is this crappy doll. Help me!
Jason
Seems like it was about 20 bucks...about a weeks worth of groceries then.
But it had everything with it but armor and artillery support. LOL
A short story from the early 20th century by H.H. Munro (Saki) comes to mind.
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/ToysPeac.shtml
Yeah. When I was a kid, I found a rusty old auto jack in the garage. It became my tommy-gun. I "slew" a lot of Japs and Nazis with that thing.
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