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Cops lecture parents about son's toy gun – after Zoom snitch
wnd.com ^ | 5/15/2020 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 05/16/2020 7:30:29 AM PDT by rktman

There's really nothing worse than neighbors ratting out neighbors. But that's what Democrats are urging citizens to do across the country. And more often than not innocent Americans are getting caught in the cross-hairs.

Sheila Perez Smith tells "The Todd Starnes Show" that she was stunned when the police showed up at her home near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Smith's 7-year-old son had just completed a Zoom class from the den of their home when she received an urgent email from her son's first-grade teacher.

It just so happened that the little boy had recently been gifted a toy gun, and the child had placed his "new favorite thing" on the table next to the computer.

"Another parent had been very uncomfortable by the fact that the gun had been in view of the Zoom call," Mrs. Smith said on my radio show. "It's such an innocent thing that someone used to make a judgment and an accusation."

A few hours after they received the email, there was a knock at the front door. It was the police.

"The police officer came to our door right after breakfast and asked us to step outside of our home as a result of the Zoom call," she told me.

Mrs. Smith's husband tried to explain to the officer that there were no guns in the house – other than the toy gun their son had received.

"He essentially lectured us on child safety and the fact that our children are too young to interact with any guns and weapons," she said.

The officer said it did not matter that it was a toy gun, and he continued to lecture the couple.

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And the cops lectured her about the age of the son and "interacting" with firearms? WTH? There is SO much wrong here.
1 posted on 05/16/2020 7:30:29 AM PDT by rktman
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Should’ve lectured him in turn, about the Constitution and the oath he swore.


2 posted on 05/16/2020 7:32:54 AM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: rktman

Now that right there is scary.
That kid is going to need mandatory time in the Drag Queen Story Hour Zoom meeting to get his head right.
The cop is probably performing.


3 posted on 05/16/2020 7:34:30 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Owwwwwww!


4 posted on 05/16/2020 7:34:56 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Would a slammed door in the face of the thug cop be too much ?.


5 posted on 05/16/2020 7:38:37 AM PDT by Popman
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A “toy gun” is not a gun. It is a REPLICA of a gun. A replica is not the thing it is a replica of. Elementary logic.

What they have criminalized is the THOUGHT of a gun in the mind of honest, non-violent people because their intention is to take guns from honest, non-violent people while deliberately leaving them in the hands of violent criminals.


6 posted on 05/16/2020 7:38:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government more than the bug. I hate that which makes me afraid. And the media.)
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The police officer came to our door right after breakfast and asked us to step outside of our home as a result of the Zoom call

NO, and DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR more than a few inches, Do you have a Warrant?? Please LEAVE MY PROPERTY and don't come back until you have a WARRANT!!!
7 posted on 05/16/2020 7:41:36 AM PDT by eyeamok
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The Karens called the cops because they thought the kid would kill them through the computer connection?


8 posted on 05/16/2020 7:42:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: eyeamok

I agree. Get a warrant and don’t talk to them. Get a lawyer.

Refuse to participate in ANY Zoom lectures.


9 posted on 05/16/2020 7:44:03 AM PDT by Dacula (Day 22 of Georgia opening up and I am still alive)
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To: rktman

Yes, there is so much wrong with it that it is unbelieveable...in other words, this is B.S. police have better things to do with their time then respond phone complaints about something seen in a Zoom chat to “lecture” people at the home on the appropriateness of allowing children to play w/ toy guns. Come on people...really.


10 posted on 05/16/2020 7:44:31 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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The teacher two things
1. My child will not participate in any more Zoom session with a fool like you moderating.
2. Tell the teacher to go Epstien herself.


11 posted on 05/16/2020 7:45:02 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: rktman

Cops are not your friend.

And neither is many in the military.

They follow orders.

When we see, as we have, police storming church services to “protect the public”, the US experiment is over.

Plan your path accordingly. We have maybe 10 years.


12 posted on 05/16/2020 7:46:16 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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There's really nothing worse than neighbors ratting out neighbors.

They're just following the tradition started in Germany, France, Holland, etc during the 40's "Turn in that Jew." Such people should be (well I can't say what I think should happen to them on a law abiding forum). As far as the thug cop goes, by definition those cops who go about enforcing unconstitutional decrees are no different than NKVD, Gestapo, STASI, milice, etc. Same thing should happen to them. I noticed one cop who stood up for the constitution was fired, but he was the ONLY ONE in the entire USA.

13 posted on 05/16/2020 7:46:27 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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And then the thugs get a warrant and kill your dog, and maybe your kid.

Or they go to the wrong address and kill someone else.


14 posted on 05/16/2020 7:47:26 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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I’m trying to figure out what kind of toy gun we’re talking about here...

If it’s something like a nerf gun - this story is completely off it’s rocker.
If it’s a completely realistic replica “toy” I could at least understand the call and possibly the cops lecture, though even if it were the cop sounds power crazed.


15 posted on 05/16/2020 7:48:03 AM PDT by Skywise
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Tell the cop to get off your porch and mind his own damned business. If I want to give my kid the proper and correct way to handle a weapon, then I WILL!!! My dad gave me these lessons when I was in grammar school. The only people I have ever shot at were the VC and NVA. I haven’t been down to the local schools, churches, Jewish centers, moskies, or any other place and shot those places up. Nope, haven’t even had the thoughts and I have fired a few thousands of shots over these past 70+ years and no kids, churches, stores, nothing. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. With cars, knives, booze, drugs, guns, rocks, sticks, iron bars, throwing them off a building top, jumping from a bridge, drowning in the bath tubs, cutting their throats, you get the deal. Not just guns. People.


16 posted on 05/16/2020 7:49:12 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible predicted these type of days. Pray to the LORD GOD for mercy on this Republic.)
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Oh I believe it - just search up instance of your local, friendly, government child protective services and their gestapo tactics.


17 posted on 05/16/2020 7:50:02 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: rktman

Sounds like next time, Dad needs to be in the background cleaning the real thing, or better yet, having his son help during class.


18 posted on 05/16/2020 7:51:05 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: eyeamok
"The police officer came to our door right after breakfast and asked us to step outside of our home...

There's a reason the po-po asks you to step outside of your home.

The proper response here is, "no thank you Officer, I'm good where I'm at".


19 posted on 05/16/2020 7:52:06 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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I had my very own .22 by the time I was 7.
In my closet.


20 posted on 05/16/2020 7:55:23 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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