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This pizza place is having a "buy back" -- although they never sold them in the first place -- for toy guns. "FATHERS" (Fathers Armed Together to Help, Educate, Restore, and Save) will give kids useless gifts if they turn in their evil toy guns.

The founder says that this is to remove the comfort and restore fear of real firearms. He doesn't elaborate on the fear component if the kid wants to grow up to be a police officer; but I digress.

This is more feel good BS to make these anti-firearms zealots look like they are "doing something".

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All my life we were taught to respect firearms and guns. Practice safe handling etc. to never, ever, point a gun at a person. Then some dimwit comes along with paintball and the like. I have never been a fan of toy guns for kids, or any kind of game that involved any kind of pretending to shoot a person. My kids shoot real guns and never take it lightly. They are asked to think about and understand what it means to be trusted to pull a trigger.

Even targets shaped like people bother me. I do understand training and defense, but most folk just don't even think about it. Which is really the problem... people not thinking, parents not teaching their kids.

The anti wouldn't have anywhere near the ground and traction they have today if we had a even just a few smarter parents.

Here is an example of what happens when kids are not taught to respect and understand what it means to pull a trigger.

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P.S. These are not anti-gun zealots incidentally, they are trying to restore respect and responsibility in this very serious subject.
 
This pizza place is having a "buy back" -- although they never sold them in the first place -- for toy guns. "FATHERS" (Fathers Armed Together to Help, Educate, Restore, and Save) will give kids useless gifts if they turn in their evil toy guns.

The founder says that this is to remove the comfort and restore fear of real firearms. He doesn't elaborate on the fear component if the kid wants to grow up to be a police officer; but I digress.

This is more feel good BS to make these anti-firearms zealots look like they are "doing something".
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#1, in my opinion, this is just marketing by the pizza place

#2, to quote Police Chief Wiggum "Why are you kids so interested in my locked closet of mystery?".
 
They're a private entity, nothing wrong with being against toy guns, the same as it's ok to be for them. But, that does not mean that they are not idiots.

I agree as previously stated that it's probably an advertising ploy.

I "fear" for any man who is fearful of a gun, because guns are a reality in our world, including with bad guys. What about the fist? If I walk up to said man and slap his wife, would he not use violence on me in kind? What, let God and the cops work it out?

I'd love to have a conversation with such folks, but I know none personally.
 
:) It would also be fun to go to the pie joint and complain that the organization's name uses the word "Armed" which is scary and hurtful to children
 
Well, there's 300 million people in this country some of them are bound to be crackers.

Right now I'm half listening to National Public Radio where I THINK a panel is pretty much saying we (Americans) should apologize to the world for the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York. I could easily be misinterpreting this though...
 
Sweet Shooter, one of the reasons for humanoid targets is that the military found, in WWII, that soldiers who'd trained shooting at black dots often had difficulty pulling the trigger when looking at humans.

So, not using silhouettes is fine, if you aren't training for self-defense. If you are training for self-defense, then they make much more sense than do bullseyes. This is particularly true when trying to learn anatomic aim points. Not too different from using animal shaped targets with highlighted vitals when prepping for hunting season.

Paintball and airsoft are also great ways to learn how dynamics change when the target is shooting back. Again, very good training for SD; not necessary if you are only shooting in order to hit black dots.

The antis wouldn't have anywhere near the traction they have if we, as a society, hadn't begun abandoing the viewpoint that the individual is responsible for the results of his actions and inactions, and hadn't begun expecting Big Government to protect us from ourselves. That's the problem, not paintball and silhouettes.
 
The antis wouldn't have anywhere near the traction they have if we, as a society, hadn't begun abandoing the viewpoint that the individual is responsible for the results of his actions and inactions, and hadn't begun expecting Big Government to protect us from ourselves. That's the problem, not paintball and silhouettes.
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Good point. The cult of victimhood needs to stop
 
I would like to mention the pointlessness of trying to keep toy guns away from kids. I know of several people that as kids (my oldest brother included) who were not allowed to have or play with toy guns. However, in a child's mind ANYTHING can become a toy gun, from sticks to a small piece of PVC pipe to their own hand.

IMO it's better to teach your children to differentiate between toys/games and reality from an early age and teach them the proper respect that real firearms and other weapons are due. I used to play with wooden swords, but when I got my hands on the real thing I didn't try to run around chopping people to bits. I used to play with toy guns and have never pointed a real one at another person.
 
When I was in a high chair I am told I made guns from biting the corner out of a cracker. In Kindergarten I made them out of Tinker-Toys and brought them in for show and tell when everyone else was bringing in snow-globes.

Pizza is good too.
 
I've never understood this fear of toy guns. Do children not know the difference between toys and real tools?

Do we take away the matchbox cars, lest they do with real cars what they do with toys?

Silliness. Complete silliness.

And the name of the group could hardly have been more idiotic.
 
peetzakilla said:
I've never understood this fear of toy guns. Do children not know the difference between toys and real tools?
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It is the adults who are the problem, not the kids. Think "zero tolerance" and the myriad posts on that subject which have been posted to these boards. Chicken fingers, drawings, photographs, and, yes, even pointed fingers have been used to demonize firearms and those who deign to play with replicas during their childhood. In the Florida case where kids were using their fingers to shoot invisible aliens it was noted that one of the children used a bazooka to shoot the aliens. :rolleyes:
 
Assault Finger Ban!

How do u know it was a bazooka and not an RPG, Stinger, or plasma rifle in the 40-watt range? You see, fingers are the gateway-gun to recoiless rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, and Star Wars. These senseless drive-by pointings with assault fingers must be stopped. And is there really a reason for anyone to have 10-finger capacity hands in the first place? No-one NEEDS ten fingers to go deer hunting! Furthermore, they can hold a bayonet!!! They must be banned.
 
They want to take away their toy guns - but I'll bet those kids have some violent video games for their game machine....................

Maybe we should also not let them watch violent sports like football and hockey
 
When I was young my brother and I and our two neighbours used to play army all the time, we must have spent hours of our lives shooting each other with pretend guns.
Yet to this day none of us have killed anyone, because of our childhood.

The world of today just doesn't want to take the blame for anything, there is no accountability for anything any more, its either someone else's fault or they were raised wrong.

I also used to play with toy cars, and you bet we used to make them crash into each other, but I also am yet to drive into someone else because I was desensitised because of my childhood.

Most of the problems with society could be solved my bring back personal accountability.
 
Oneounce hit it right on the head with the videogames. My brothers and I used to fight and wrestle and what not all the time. It never worked it's way into getting us in trouble at school. But, as soon as we got a Playstation with Tekken my youngest brother was getting in trouble almost on a daily basis for fighting and things at school. I was so mad when we had to trade that game, but I definitely see the big picture now as I have gotten older.
 
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