Posted on 08/08/2006 9:32:18 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Dallas may drop the hammer on toy guns
Safety panel vote puts city closer to adopting strict ordinance
11:10 PM CDT on Monday, August 7, 2006
By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
They're Americana slipped into the holsters of little boys in cowboy hats.
But after a 7-1 vote by the City Council's public safety committee, Dallas is closer than ever to passing one of the nation's strictest ordinances regulating the sale and possession of toy guns.
The committee directed City Attorney Tom Perkins to craft an ordinance that would ban all toy guns except those painted a bright color, such as hot pink or neon green, or made of transparent or translucent material.
The toys would also have to reflect light.
Toy guns that don't fit the city's paint/reflection criteria would be illegal even if kept inside a private home or vehicle, council members said.
"I would have liked to see the city absolutely outlaw toy look-alike replica guns, but to get anything progressive done in this part of the country is significant," said the Rev. Peter Johnson, who through the community activism organization Weed & Seed has advocated banning toy guns locally.
Dallas should model its proposal after New York City's toy-gun ordinance, regarded as one of the country's most stringent, the committee told Mr. Perkins. A small percentage of municipalities, including Plano, have also further regulated toy guns beyond a federal provision requiring toy makers to place an orange cap over gun barrels.
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I don't know why Texans have always had the right to defend their homes. The police won't even carry you to the station for a statement.
The only thing dumber than a liberal, is two liberals!!!
How sad! No more cowboys and indians. (Now politically incorrect, of course!) No more cops and robbers! Our little boys will have courage, innovation and the manly art of protection sucked out them. I say give 'em more toy guns, given 'em bows and arrows! And maybe our little boys will grow up to be real men, just like their grandfathers.
Why don't they drop the hammer on REAL criminals?
And kids running through yards and jumping fences with real looking guns shouting "I'm going to kill you." Somehow we all survived.
If it wasn't, it should have been. Texas is a "right to carry" state. The law here says that if I see some punk carrying off my TV set and he is about to get away and I have no reasonable chance of recovering it, I can shoot him in the back. How cool is that? So now we may have come to a situation where people can own and carry real guns but not fake guns. The well of liberal insanity just keeps getting deeper and deeper.
Not to be provocative, but Texas is turning into a nanny state. This is weird.
They'd do better to ban the street gangs.
It's not the guns that are the problem.
They've already banned criminals, but they aren't effective in combating crime.
Instead of going after criminals, they instead create laws that just interfere with law abiding citizens and continue doing a poor job of enforcing laws.
Maybe what they need to ban is worthless politicians.
Oh goodie, we teach our kids guns are evil bad things,
and our enemy teaches their kids how to fire a AK-47.
Guess even the actors playing cops won't have guns if they don't want to break the law.
I wouldn't want Hollywood to have rights than a mere citizen does not.
Yep. And that is one thing that Kinky Friedman claims to be running against. The wussification of Texas.
Too much money in payoffs.
Does not surprise me - Dallas has quite a few liberals running around (I think the Sheriff is even a Democrat).
Texan Audie Murphy knew all about guns BEFORE he joined the Army. So did Alvin C. York. So the most decorated soldiers of WWI AND WWII just happened to learn shooting as mere children.
Add George Mabry II the Medal of Honor recepient who learned shooting as a boy in South Carolina and had an incredible career involving D-Day, the Bulge, and so much more.
The most famous sniper of Vietnam was Carlos Hathcock who grew up shooting in Arkansas.
My wife learned to disassemble an AK-47 in the sixth grade and during her USSR 8th grade class did the same but against the clock.
But these Dallas zip wads think that America would be better is Murphy, York, Mabry, Hathcock, and so many more had grown up without guns. Sheesh!
Yea, back when kids had parents.
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