I used to shoot and kill my brother and friends almost every day while playing army after school. Those were the good old days, NO MORE.
We had all kinds of toy guns: cap guns, machine guns, water guns, toy pistols, etc. It was great, had a great time fooling around and playing army with our friends.
Why did the Irvington, NJ, police have to handcuff and arrest these boys for playing with "paper"!!!
Irvington, NJ, is a toilet, it borders Newark, NJ, to the north where the police have plenty to do to fight crime: murders, rapes, car thefts, stabbings, gang activity, etc., rather than arresting 8-yr.-old boys playing with paper on their school playground.
Just pick the Star ledger, search "last 14 days" and plug in Irvington http://www.nj.com/search/
My conspiratorial opinion along these lines is that they purposefully over-react to situations involving weaponry real or imagined, in order to teach the children to fear weapons of all types. When they grow up, they'll be more inclined to vote for a ban.
Zero tolerance was not an accident.
This makes me want to give Rutherford money. I think I will.
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03/22/2003 4:16:15 AM PST by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)