CA - Andy Lopez, 13, carrying toy assault rifle, shot by LE, 22 Oct 2013

[FrayedKnot]

Wow just wow. :loveyou:

I post my opinion on a few forums and yours is the ONLY supportive comment I've ever had from an American. Sad but true.

Usually my posts get attacked, I get attacked, or they are ignored.

It's horrible what we see happening to your country and your people and your children. You all deserve to be safe.

Gun laws do not equal a gun ban. Folks need to realise this. It's just about taking common sense measures to ensure those that have them are trained and licensed, just like motorists.

No one suggests banning cars, right? Just regulating those who can legally drive them.

It's exactly the same principle, I don't understand why folks equate it with an erosion of their freedom.

Anyway kids are going to keep getting killed until someone does something. There's nothing surer, sadly.

Guns also tend to increase other violence as well, such as rape and robbery. There is an entire statistic that is overlooked in this debate, those who have been traumatised by gun violence, even badly injured, but survived. They don't make the headlines but there are millions of them, more and more daily.

:scared:

Count me in there, too.

I am sickened by the refusal of some people to understand how dangerous guns are.

This CHILD had a toy gun. A freaking TOY. But because of gun nuts insisting that everyone and anyone can get them a big ole gun to shoot up people, this CHILD had to die.

If we did not ALLOW these guns to be so readily available to anyone and everyone, then the police would have understood the toy for what it was: a TOY.

JEEBUS. How many more lives? How many? Maybe if THEIR children get shot up? Probably not. They love the misinterpreted Second Amendment more than the safety of their children,

Which is why every week we read some article about a child accidentally killing themselves due to an unsecured weapon, or some mentally unstable teen taking out an entire first grade class, or some conspiracy nut shooting up an airport.

But you'll have to pry it out of their cold dead hands.......so be it. :banghead::banghead::banghead:

 

[FrayedKnot]

I have an idea! It's the problem solver. Make all toy guns totally orange. Also teach youngsters that when the police tell you to drop your weapon (or toy) you do what they say within a sec!!!! I don't blame the police at all for their action. Look many crimes are committed with toy guns so when law enforcement tells you to drop your weapon, you've dropped it before they finish their sentence... JMO

Yeah! Kids SHOULD learn how to drop their weapons. Stupid kids. It's their fault. Not the gun laws. No, never.

:facepalm:

Good post!!

 

[MsFacetious]

I just think that there should be one color that toy guns are made in.
That color should not be allowed in real guns.

Orange, lime green, yellow... whatever color they choose.
But apparently that wouldn't work because you can't tell people what color their guns can and cannot be. :facepalm:

That basically only leaves the kids learning that they may be a target if they have a gun that looks real. :twocents: