NY Kids Urged To Trade In Toy Guns For Other “Appropriate Toys” This Christmas

[rangerrebew]

NY Kids Urged To Trade In Toy Guns For Other “Appropriate Toys” This Christmas

by staffwriter10 · December 27, 2016

On December 21, just days before Christmas, Manhattan philanthropist Jean Shafiroff, with help from the Hempstead Heights Civic Association and Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall, asked all children in the town of Hempstead to hand over their plastic guns in exchange for a toy that was not associated with firearms. Shafiroff said, “I wanted children to know toy guns are not good toys. … By exchanging them for a much better gift, it shows a toy gun is not worth having.”

The Hempstead Heights Civic Association’s Lamont Johnson added, “We need to get away from that culture and give children appropriate toys. Hempstead is sending a message guns are not to be played with.”However, the toy guns turned in were not the kind of toys that can be confused with real guns, the kind which have been mistaken for actual firearms and resulted in officer-involved shootings.”

[rangerrebew]

Snowflakes in training.

[Applewood]

Much too difficult to be a parent and teach your children how and when to use firearms than it is to just confiscate toy guns and tell the kids all guns are bad.

SIGH!

[Rivergirl]

Maybe NYers could exchange their Mayor for a patriotic American.

[mountaineer]

Shafiroff said, “I wanted children to know toy guns are not good toys. … By exchanging them for a much better gift, it shows a toy gun is not worth having.”

Indeed. Exchange it for the real thing. Teach them firearm safety at a young age.

[Gefn]

You mean they have to trade in their Red Ryder BB Guns?

Oh no! It's a Christmas tradition to want one, Ralphie! 

(Jean Shepherd is crying in his grave)