Yeah, I bet Hempstead has a bunch of illegals living there. Is it a sanctuary city as well?
Even the least HINT that a handgun may exist is sufficient to send these nervous types into the vapors and cause them to clutch their pearls. But the taking up of some kind of personal defense weapon is part of the DNA of every human male there ever was. By using the techniques developed by B.F. Skinner, it is possible to totally squelch these natural impulses, and thus “civilize” the child. This practice also leaves the victim, er, subject far less able to cope with serious challenges to his personal safety when new and unexpected threats arise..
Lots of hemp heads in Hempstead.
This “toy gun buy back” is a sophisticated form of brainwashing. By the time these little ones know how to tie their shoes, they will be little Goose stepping brown shirts ;-(
“Toy Gun Buyback” 1968 all over again after the murder of Bobby Kennedy by a Palestinian immigrant.
Growing up in the early 60s was different.
I can’t remember a toy gun until I was maybe around 8 or 9 that lasted about a week before broken. We had these little spring guns that we could put dried navy beans in and shoot those. We shot rubber bands, we threw spears made out of sticks, we had sword fights with sticks, and we shot archery in school. Some of the guys with parents who had disposable income wwnts around with lever action toy guns or burp guns or O07 guns/brief case spy kits... a few guys in the neighborhood had BB guns I don’t recall any Red Ryder BB guns but they did have the pumping Barrel things from Sears that were kind of cool some of the teens had Benjamin air pellet guns - that was really cool!
But I never had a gun, and then when we were overseas a bunch of these Army sergeants got together and started an NRA certification class for young boys and we learned all about firearm safety, target shooting with rifle and target shooting with pistol and then we got our NRA certificate. I think I was 11 when that happened. After that it was a lot of target shooting down at this range that was built fairly close to where we lived in the upcountry of Thailand. The local boonie cops would show up and fire their 38 and 357 some military sergeants would show up and plink, it was all unofficial but it was a place to shoot and it was a safe place to shoot. The Corps of Engineers made sure that the berms were up and made everything cool. A Thai Army General owned the property but I never saw him.
Needles? Condoms? Porn? Books by Mao, Alinsky or the collected works of Obama and Clinton? SNAP Cards? Whatever could it be?!
Sears Wishbooks for decades (up to several decades ago) had real guns in them. And toy guns that were spitting images of the real thing.
We had significantly less gun misuse than we see nowadays.
But, we had mental institutions then, with hundreds of thousands more beds than today, to house the twisted ones.
I take issue with the headline, which stigmatizes dyslexia by trying to associate it with illogical thinking.