Does anyone know what the government says about toy guns and these types of mistakes?
And note where his trigger finger is in the second picture. He needs to take some NRA safety courses.The "government" says "too bad, so sad, sucks to be you. If you hadn't had that gun in the first place, you wouldn't have had to worry about an officer doing his job." Toy guns lead to real gun use, which is the root of all evil and crime according to the "government." Holder made it clear that changing society's mind regarding firearms begins with taking toy guns away from kids.
As I have noted in other posts, the problem is that police have been on a "war" footing for nearly the last 20 years. It isn't the "protect and serve" with which most of us grew up, where cops were friendly, approachable, and more likely to talk someone into surrendering and go an entire career without ever pulling the trigger, when they would come into a classroom for a friendly chat with the students, and let them handle his handcuffs and gun; these days
we have cops going into classrooms bragging about how they are the only ones professional enough to be trusted with firearms - right before they shoot themselves in the leg in front of those same students with the very firearm that only THEY are professional enough to handle. These days it is a war on crime - and that changes your entire approach, whether you intend to change or not. In a war, one is more likely to pull the trigger first and ask questions later - assuming the suspect is still alive to answer them. Where in the good old days cops would have encouraged kids to carry on with their games of cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, or soldiers, these days a kid with a toy gun is a likely suspect.
But remember, this only applies to us common folks. The PRESIDENT can talk about the evils of guns, even toy guns, all day long, and then go to Camp David and shoot skeet or use toy guns around the pool.
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And note where his trigger finger is in the second picture. He needs to take some NRA safety courses.
Find her trainer in CA and break his fingers. Oh wait, she didn't take a class I'll bet as she is one of CA's political elites. ( sarcasm now turned offHe learned from the best in the business!
Illegal gun in DC and she is in possession of it. Arrest her.
Do we really need TOY GUNS?
I believe another problem is that people do not nearly have the common sense people had before. When I was a kid with my realistic toy guns, it wouldn't even occur to me to keep holding onto it if a police officer said to drop it. It wouldn't occur to me to point it anyone that I wasn't playing "cops and robbers" with, especially a real cop.
When an authority figure told me that an action of mine was wrong and I continued to do it, there were real consequences. Today, I see kids doing the same stupid things over and over again and a typical response I hear from their parents, "oh, kids will be kids" along with a shrug and a smile. This is not the parenting I remember when I was a kid.
Saying the toy is the fault in these cases is like saying real guns are the fault of people committing murder. The "gun did it" mentality doesn't fly here with toy guns either.
Blues, I pose the question because the toy gun in the story, which I link to looked so real, even the LEO couldn't distinguish it from the real thing. Of course in America you should be able to own what you want. This is why my grandfather and father served for this country. But would I give a child or teen a toy gun which looks so real and then say go walk around outside with it? No I wouldn't because I could not face the consequences of a poor parental decision of judgement, loss of a child would be unbearable in my opinion. Why must the toy manufacturer make these toys look so real?
All of my sons toy guns have an orange tip by the way.
It is a federal offense to remove the orange tip from a toy/airsoft gun for just this reason.
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