Keeping the streets safe from the scourge of foam bullets.

[Guylee]

I grew up in a no toy guns=fear of real guns household.

My membership in this site should be proof enough of how that worked out.

[mcantar18c]

Is that like "a rock or something"

I have a sudden urge to make an MRE bomb

[alxone]

i know when i was a kid you could not pry the toy gun out of my hand and deferentially not for some frikin pizza .

[BuffCyclist]

So kids such as Tarence Callaham, 14, a Buffalo ninth-grader, brought in his green and orange Nerf gun. In return, Tarence got a piece of pepperoni pizza, a snazzy dress shirt and the chance to shoot some hoops in the pizzeria parking lot.

Tynell Ruffins, 9, a fourth-grader at Community Charter School, got a bigger haul in return for his orange and black Nerf gun. He got the pizza, a soft drink, a notebook, a dress shirt and a Marvel Heroes folder.

All I took away from this is that the orange/black Nerf guns are more valuable than the green/orange Nerf guns.

I mean that first kid got totally robbed! He traded a nerf gun for a "chance" to shoot some hoops in the parking lot?! Did they hold a raffle and give him a ticket, saying if he's lucky and his number is called, he'll get to shoot hoops in the pizzeria parking lot?! OMGOMGOMG I MUST win that NOWWWWW!!! Its a once in a lifetime opportunity!!

At least the second kid knows how to bargain.

Disappointing for sure, what we need to be doing is teaching more kids about how to safely operate real guns, starting with airsoft and then moving them onto .22lrs. A good friend of mine who I go offroading with, has a young son and his son only gets to take the airsoft gun when they go camping, granted his dad carries a G23 all the time while camping. But it still helped him to learn when/where and how to safely choose a safe spot to shoot!

[Ranger]

These stupid liberal ideas never cease to boggle my mind. Yes, it will be a wonderful day when our entire country is a bunch of pacifists like the libtarts want us to be - won't that be great? Professional training to be a pussy.

[SuperiorDG]

Hell my two boys (4 and 6) make guns out of potato chips. It is something inherent in boys. Taking those toys will only stimulate their imaginations. They would probably make a gun out of the pizza crust.

[strm_trpr]

I was that kid growing up in a gun free house, in the beginning my mom tried to keep toy guns out, when I made one out of a stick she gave up, now I am here and have enough weapons to justify a safe.....this approach so works!

[Byte Stryke]

Please read the entire post before flaming.


Ideally, I would love to live in a world where violence and the threat of violence was not a constant. I would love to live in a world where a gun was not a necessity. This would remove any potential threat from my family. I Have no delusions that I will not be harmed if there is a confrontation. Violence is violent... and not avoidable by closing my eyes to the truth.

However, I understand that the dream is just a dream, we live in a violent world in which the citizen must be armed and is responsible for his own defense.

[newracer]

My boys have enough Nerf guns to get the whole pizza place.

They also have real guns.

They also know the difference.

One fo the first things I did with my sons and also with several other new shooters is have them shoot a target that is very reactive, like cans of soda. That way they can see just how much damage a real gun can do.

[JackImpact]

We need to teach kids that driving cars is dangerous, Matchbox today, a Mazda tomorrow.