I kid you not - TOY gun buyback program in CA

[netcoyote]

Regardless how you feel about toy guns, this is really over the edge. And where else but California. CA would be fun to watch, from a distance, if their stupid ideas weren't so dangerous for the rest of us.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/10/Elementary-School-Urges-Students-To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.

Really.

Hill believes that children who play with toy guns may not think real guns are dangerous. “Playing with toy guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun,” he claims.

Hill was inspired by a school photographer, Horace Gibson, who was upset about the number of police shootings of young people in Oakland.

At Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, a local policeman will demonstrate bicycle and gun safety, (does he get to use a real gun?), while the Alameda County Fire Department will speak about fire safety. Just to show that local governments can do surveillance too, there will be opportunities for the children to be fingerprinted and photographed, with that information transferred to CD’s if it is ever needed for a missing child case.

Hill, defending his take-away program, asserted that police are justifiably afraid when they face armed suspects, and toy guns have been mistaken for real ones.

But Yih-Chau Chang, spokesman for Responsible Citizens of California, said, ”Having a group of children playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians is a normal part of growing up."

[lucky33]

Sounds like typical California mentality.  The Libs are at it again. 

[snowpack]

I wonder how long until Seattle copies this.

[christopheri]

O wounder if this is being conducted on school grounds were there is a "zero tolerance" for guns on school grounds. I thought this included toy guns....

[fastdam]

Lol........WOW, i am truly amazed at how goofy things are getting. Were living in a real life version of the movie "idiocrocy".  Its scary to think about where these *censored*s are taking our country.

[gaddy]

it seems a loooong time ago when we got pop guns for CHRISTMAS, played cowboys & watched westerns, cops & robbers. & imagine this- nobody was out killing each other on a daily basis.

[SCRUBS]

You are watching the slow indoctrination of the children on the evilness of all guns. Get the next generation while the getting is good...

[seth30]

I wonder how long until Seattle copies this.

[kglacken]

I honestly believe it is how the parents teach the kid. When I was little, my dad let me have toy guns, but he still made me treat them with respect and taught me the difference between a real one and a toy one. Playing with toy guns isnt the problem, its what you let the kids do or think while they are using that toy gun. teaching them to respect a gun is the key to keeping them from misunderstanding the difference. 

[Elkaholic daWg]

This one just hit my FB page.... rediculous....

[ICEMAN]

Someone should sue the school district for wasting taxpayer dollars.

[JohnVH]

just ANOTHER reason I would NEVER live in that retarded state.

[Dan-o]

LOL.......   In a seriously ludicrous way.

[shoot-em-dead]

I think we should all bann together here in Washington and all of us parents require our kids to play cops and robbers during recess. I wonder how many schools here would suspend a student for pointing a finger. It would be an interesting experiment.

[TONTO]

You are watching the slow indoctrination of the children on the evilness of all guns. Get the next generation while the getting is good...

No it can't be......

Holder Says People Need to be Brainwashed about guns

I honestly believe it is how the parents teach the kid.

 Thats just it, parents aren't teaching the kids they leave that to the indoctrinaters to do it for them. After all it takes a village remember.