Attitudes like yours and others on this thread are the very reason our second amendment rights are in danger and have been gradually eroded away in some states.
The painting the gun tip orange is stupid, and I am talking about toy guns, and not for the safety of children but for the appeasement of anti-gun types. When I was a kid we all played with toy guns, constantly, no orange tips and no dead children by cops.
Cops who shoot children with toy guns are idiots and should be prosecuted.
People who panic merely at the sight of a firearm are first class cowards. 60 years ago someone walking around with a firearm would not have even stirred a comment other than some of the hikers would have wanted to look at the unusual piece.
Our country has come a long way and the appeasers on FR, on this thread and similar threads, show why PC is so effective: "OH", says the idiot that wants to keep all weapons out of site, "we can't show our weapons this will make people not like us!". This is appeasement at its highest order and totally stupid. If it is legal, then there is nothing wrong with him doing it. The orange tip doesn't make the gun any more lethal, and the fact that people went bat sh** over it shows how ineffective painting the tip of a toy gun really is.
This kind of BS makes one almost ashamed of some FReepers.
I’m a bit stunned by it. And it’s not just FR, it’s other ‘pro-gun’ sites like glocktalk and ar15.com that are rampaging against this. It’s a joke.
“Cops who shoot children with toy guns are idiots and should be prosecuted.”
Thats a rather broad statement. There were many cases where cops shot children in justifiable situations.
“People who panic merely at the sight of a firearm are first class cowards.”
And people who ignore an irrational person carrying a firearm are just plain stupid.
THe issue of painting your gun to look like a toy is separate from the issue of open carry, at least for me. I don’t see how criticizing a person for trying to make their gun look like a toy threatens to erode our 2nd amendment gun rights.
I support open carry of weapons, and think that if people did it more often, it would become less of an issue.
Gun rights are under attack, and taking actions that needlessly stir up opposition to gun rights seems quite counterproductive to me. Our rights ARE threatened, and encouraging those who threaten our rights is not a wise thing.
Yes, we all played with guns as kids, and none of us got shot, but then we didn’t live in a crime-infested housing unit where gangs used children to run drugs and commit armed robbery and other felonious acts.
I don’t believe my children were ever in any danger of being shot by police for having realistic-looking weapons either.
But apparently there are places in our country, mostly liberal bastions where guns were banned, in which children WERE shot by police. Did making the guns less realistic help matters? I don’t know, I guess not, and I also guess that smart criminals would have given the gun-running children weapons painted to look like toys, if it mattered in the least bit.
But the fight over 2nd amendment rights has nothing to do with the fight over whether kids should be allowed to play with realistic toy guns. The 2nd amendment does not protect the rights of a 5-year-old to have an authentic-looking ak-47 to play with. Government shouldn’t interfere in such things, but it’s not a 2nd-amendment issue, and those fighting for 2nd-amendment rights should not allow themselves to be distracted into tangential and unproductive fights over unrelated matters.
Well said!