[mnehring]

Who decides what is ‘so realistic to be mistaken’?

[advertising guy]

it is amazing to me how many willingly wear their ass on their shoulders

[Man50D]

What about toy knives?

[Right Wing Assault]

Scutari looks so realistic he can be mistaken for a real Senator. Outlaw him.

[mnehring]

A lot of people thought this looked real:

Does this mean we will ban 2" long toy guns too?

[dirtbiker]

Is this moron any kin to the Kennedys....

[xcamel]

Funny enough though, the line between “politician” and “brain dead” is pretty thin too...

[The_Reader_David]

It’s a dim idea, but it’s possible it could serve as a means of rolling back an even dimmer one: ‘zero tolerance policies’ in schools which include even ‘simulated weapons’ and are interpretted as banning dayglo squirt-guns, toy rifles carried by three inch high toy soldiers, and other manifest non-weapons.

Make the specifications tight, and attach an amendment that no school-district may impose a zero tolerance policy including toys not falling under the bill’s definition of similarity to real weapons, and on balance the amount of stupidity in New Jersey law might go down.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Is anyone yet figuring out what I’m talking about when I talk about “DAMN YANKEES”? I don’t know how to be diplomatic about things, but damned if there ain’t a whole bunch of idiots running loose, and, strangely enough, most of them come from “up there”!

[oyez]

That is a choice for parents to make.

A ten year old was shot in the street of a rough neighborhood my police a few weeks ago at 11 a night for pointing a toy gun. Too bad the parents weren't shot for neglect.

Of course I don't have to explain who is "made" to be the bad guy in this case. Some parent will not control their children, so the government wants to control all children.

[huldah1776]

Not going to work. Never having a gun, or having one in the house, my son, 2 yrs old, picked up a toy elephant bought at the zoo and used the extended trunk as the barrel of a gun. I knew at that point I lost the battle. Now that I think of it, fingers work just as well. That’s what we used when we were kids. :)

[Rome2000]

Scutari's bill would make it illegal to sell or give to anyone under 18 and imitation firearm,

Busy, Busy, Busy!

[vetsvette]

“The margin between a child’s stupid mistake and a tragic ending is far too thin,” said Sen. Nicholas Scutari.”

Actually, the margin between a liberal Senator’s stupid mistakes and a tragic ending for the country is far too thin.

[JimRed]

The kid with the toy gun shot by the cop is pure Darwin in action; point something that looks like a gun at a cop and you’re too stupid to live.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

New Jersey has turned into to an overflowing moral and repulsive cesspool. I was born there. spent most of my adulthood there and am happy to have left it behind me a few years ago. The place is a mess and herein is the problem....more than half of what’s left of the populace backbone believes that “something for nothing, what can I personally get out of this” and the promises of the Democrats is an acceptable and workable path for the future.
I am so disgusted that there are no words left to describe it. Slowly but surely my family relative leave the state....thank God. I have also told them to sell their cemetery plots as they leave. There is nothing left there.

[Global2010]

What about paint ball guns can they be useful if bright colored?

Most big water blasters are bright colored last time I played with one (years ago).

And most lil squirt guns are bright clear colors.

I have no problem with them requesting that toy guns be bright colored so they are not mistakened for realistic guns.

Heck with the lil (10 yr old) gang bangers packing real guns I can see why the need to have toy guns brightly colored.

[Jack Hammer]

“A New Jersey idiot, would-be commissar, and petty tyrant - self-appointed Regulator of the Planet - wants to make it illegal to sell or give to anyone under age 18 toy guns...”

Now it’s closer to the truth.

[EGPWS]

N.J. Senator Proposes Toy Gun Ban

Ban toy guns and replace them with candy cigarettes and then get over it.

[goldstategop]

When toy guns are banned, only kid outlaws will have toy guns.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Clam Digger]