Baltimore OKs ban of replica guns (to fight crime).

The Baltimore Sun ^ | November 14, 2016 | Luke Broadwater and Yvonne Wenger

[Carriage Hill]

The Baltimore City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to a citywide ban on toy guns that look like working handguns and rifles.

Council members introduced the legislation after a 14-year-old East Baltimore boy holding a BB gun was shot by a city police detective in April.

City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young said replica guns are contributing to violence on Baltimore's streets. He said people are using the fake weapons in robberies, and children who carry them are put in harm's way.

[grobdriver]

Psssttt... City Council. They'll still do it.

And you're idiots.

[Daffynition]

My thought exactly! :)

[litehaus]

“Hard to believe this was one of the Original 13 Colonies.”

Which one ya think will “die” first ?

Will the sewers in BOSTON cause a plague?

Will the ‘furriners’ in NYC drive out all working folks?

Will the ‘welfare dbl dippers’ in ‘MERRYLAND’bankrupt it first?\ETC ETC

[umgud]

Were it not for the huge number of young black criminals, this would not be an issue.

Back in the 50’s I can’t think of anybody who didn’t have toy guns for playing cops/robbers, cowboys/indians, military.... and police weren’t shooting kids.

[Carriage Hill]

Heh. They’re probably all painted ‘safety orange’, now.

[DoodleDawg]

OH! So it's for the children. Then make a law against child endangerment instead of against ownership of replica guns.

There's a dead 11-year-old in Cleveland who might well have benefitted from this.

[trebb]

Next up - banning real guns that look too much like real guns.....

[Carriage Hill]

LOL!

[bgill]

Did they ban pop tarts, too?

[Carriage Hill]

Pop Tarts and finger guns are banned, too. Heh.

[Repent and Believe]

With that logic, it would make just as much sense to ban the city of Baltimore from policemen. Afterall the policeman killed the BB gun owner, while the BB gun did not hurt anyone that I am aware of.

Or on an entirely different point, when will it be that someone who is afraid of breaking the new law stops carrying a fake gun and gets killed by a thug because the defender gave up his deterrent, the fake gun (holstered or bulging from pocket.)

What the city might want to try is outlawing traditional crimes, such as abortion, and sodomy and enforce such laws with courage and severity.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Then they’re going to have to ban Barbie Dolls, too! When Sis and I were kids, we’d bend Barbie at a 45-degree angle and use HER as a gun!

Baltimore hates Barbie...and FUN! ;)

[Gritty]

If they just banned feral blacks they would probably cut violent crime by 90%. Oh, wait. Can I say that...?

[Carriage Hill]

Agreed.

👍👍👍

[smokingfrog]

Nerf guns will be next.

[Carriage Hill]

All that’ll be left to ban will be Pop-Tarts and finger guns. And then crime will drop-off like crazy.
Perfectly sane leftist reasoning...

[smokingfrog]

Don't forget marshmallow guns with high capacity magazines.

[Carriage Hill]

Damn, I feel deprived. I missed those!

[smokingfrog]

Those hollow point marshmallows are deadly, I tell you what.

[Carriage Hill]

Toast them crackling brown over a fire, fill the holes w/ chunky peanut butter, and you have anti-personnel rounds. If they’re not already banned by the Hague Culinary Convention on Combatant Campers’ Rights, they soon will be.