[grundle]

More children die from bicycle accidents than from toy guns.

[FlipWilson]

words fail.

[apillar]

“Playing with toy guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them...

So I guess the murder rate was 10,000% higher back in the 1950's when EVERY boy was playing Cop's and Robber's or Cowboy's and Indian's with a realistic gun....Right?

[onedoug]

I was lucky to have had a Daisy Pump Gun as a kid. And I never came close to shooting my eye out either.

[The Sons of Liberty]

More children die from bicycle accidents than from toy guns.

Conditioning and indoctrinating them young for the real thing later.

[Blood of Tyrants]

More children die fro bicycle accidents than gun accidents.

[Autonomous User]

So if a kid brings a toy gun to the school for the program should they be arrested for violating the schools zero tolerance policy on guns?

[Scrambler Bob]

Send the kid with an issue of Shotgun News.

Should be good for LOTS of raffle tickets.

[Sender]

Fingerprinted, photographed, guns taken away. Welcome to America kids.

[unixfox]

Just to show that local governments can do surveillance too, there will be opportunities for the children to be fingerprinted and photographed, with that information transferred to CD’s if it is ever needed for a missing child case.

Transferred to CD's? Bullsh!t, who do they think we are? Just more government intrusion and tracking of YOUR children.

[Girlene]

This is idiotic.

[drypowder]

Hill believes that children who play with toy guns may not think real guns are dangerous. “Playing with toy guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun,”

what about young girls who watch TV shows that show professionally promiscuous women? Using Hills line of reasoning means young girls are in danger of becoming whores.

[Conservative_Rob]

When I was a kid, the Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a popular TV show, and for Christmas one year my parents gave me the cigarette case gun. Could I get a tofer for it, I wonder???

[RetiredTexasVet]

Some devious person in CA should buy some ultra cheap toy guns (China produced $.01 sold at Big Lots) and cover the area with them.

[equaviator]

Too many adults can be fooled by toy guns...Can’t have toy guns falling into the wrong hands, right?

[jimmygrace]

I would send my kid to school with a peanut butter sandwich gnawed off into the shape of a gun and try to win a bicycle...

[Slings and Arrows]

[johniegrad]

How are this principal’s kids performing on standardized tests?

[metmom]

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[Peanut Gallery]

It’s a toy. Where will they draw the line? So far there is no drawing of lines. Making a gun-like shape with your HAND is just as bad as having a little green plastic army guy.

This is a crazy waste of time and money. If I lived in that district, I would not allow my children to participate ~ toy guns or just toys in general.

I am thankful for having the option to choose how I educate my children.