Disarming The Toy Box

[MaddSkillz]

OMG!!!!

Disarming the toy box
Providence program destroys children’s toy guns

PROVIDENCE — Dominic Johnson, a 10-year-old fourth-grader with a fledgling Mohawk, brandished his black, long-nosed toy gun and caressed the muzzle appreciatively.

“It’s like a shotgun mixed with a rifle,’’ he said, as his mother, April, told him to stop pointing it at nearby children.

Soon it would be junk.

Dominic joined dozens of children yesterday at the annual Toy Gun Bash in the gymnasium of Pleasant View Elementary School. There, they lined up to toss their toy guns, from dainty purple water guns to camouflage-painted pistols, inside the Bash-O-Matic, a large black, foam creature with churning metal teeth and the shape of a cockroach spliced with a frog.

Prodded by Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, who wore a fuzzy Santa hat, the children stared curiously as the Bash-O-Matic mashed up their guns and digested them into a plastic bin near its tail.

“He ate it,’’ squealed one delighted little girl.

’Tis the season for joy, peace, and grinding up plastic, orange-tipped AK-47s.


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[keensaber]

What is the world coming to? It was really not that long ago that there were still shooting teams in our public schools. Now the public at large is encouraging children to destroy even toy guns. This makes for gun haters when they grow up into adults. We as gun enthusiasts and activists need to stand up against this kind of BS and say stop. All I can do is shake my head and wonder what life will be like in the next 20 years.

 

[Buzz70]

I bet they can't play tag either for fear someone may fall down and get hurt.

 

[Perrone]

"Ameriki is watchin'!"

 

[TheSanDiegoKid]

"The annual Toy Gun Bash" very misleading name, sounds like a big get together for all the town kids to come play "army", cops and robbers, etc. Hmmm, it would be awesome to set up a big event right next to the "toy bash" just for the kids to play with their guns to show all the anti toy gun parents that they are only toys and they are actually really fun for kids!

 

[Danny Tanner]

Wow, 20 comments on that article and only one of them is anti-gun.

I'm not sure if all of those people are from Rhode Island, but if that's the overwhelming mentality there, how does stuff like this even happen?

 

[cjjtulsa]

No sweat. I typically buy my kids enough toy guns and toy gun-related stuff to make up for their asinine Bash-o-Matic. And that's not all.....wait until they're a little older.......

 

[redneck1861]

WOW!!! really? destroying all toy guns. That is BS.

The only toy guns that I don't like for kids to play with are the airsoft and other ones that look and function to much like the real version of the gun. And I only don't like thoes cause if a irresponsible parent leaves a gun out to where a child might get to it, the kid might think that it is his gun and pick it up and shoot someone or thierselves

 

[MaddSkillz]

"The annual Toy Gun Bash" very misleading name, sounds like a big get together for all the town kids to come play "army", cops and robbers, etc. Hmmm, it would be awesome to set up a big event right next to the "toy bash" just for the kids to play with their guns to show all the anti toy gun parents that they are only toys and they are actually really fun for kids!

Laser tag and Photon FTW!!!1~

 

[Perrone]

Laser tag and Photon FTW!!!1~

Did you just say...Photon....