if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Eeek! A Gun! A Gun!
by Hal_10000
I know that all of you are good decent God-fearing people who will be shocked SHOCKED to hear that a library rewarded a couple of kids for reading four books by giving them ... water pistols:
A Common Council member criticized the Albany Public Library for handing out water pistols as prizes for students who read four books this summer.
Council member James P. Sano, a Democrat [Hal - big surprise!], said the library’s Pine Hills branch sent the wrong message to children at a time the city has formed a task force on gun violence.
Of course, most squirt guns don’t look real at all. But I guess, like real guns, they are an evil talisman that makes people kill. The librarian has obligingly gone wimp:
Tim Burke, the acting director of the library, said it was a mistake that won’t happen again.
“They buy these bulk packages of prizes that included a couple of those,” he said. “It was just a few out of many, many prizes we handed out.”
Here’s my favorite bit:
Sano said he took the water pistol from a 9-year-old boy while working as a lifeguard, and the child told him where he had received it.
Seriously, he has nothing better to do than to go up a 9-year-old boy and take away his water gun. What a twerp.
What is wrong with these people? Kids, especially boy kids, like to play with guns. It is hard-wired into the Y-chromosome (some X’s as well). Taking away squirt guns isn’t going to change that. And the very presence of a gun-like object isn’t causing violence. For Heston’s sake, my dad’s high school used to have a shooting club. That is, kids were playing with actual guns, not phony-looking plastic things. And, astonishingly, nobody shot anybody else.
The story goes on to say the community is “sensitive” because a 15 year-old recently murdered another 15-year-old. It’s a tragedy, but I fail to see what taking away squirt guns is going to do about it. Had the kid been killed in a car accident, would we be taking everyone’s hot wheels away?
(Hat tip: Overlawyered.)
Comments
Nonsense. We all know squirt guns are gateway weapons to the harder stuff.
LMAO!!! That statement totally just made my day.
But yeah, anyways, this whole ordeal is bullshit. Slowly our culture wussifying our future generations. It makes me sick. I could go on a massive rant about this shit, but I’ll just fidget angrily in my chair for now.
Isn’t it illegal to make a water pistol that looks like a real one? I thought that’s why they were all fluorescent transparent plastic.
Posted by Orpheus on 10/04/07 at 03:13 PM from Australia
Isn’t it illegal to make a water pistol that looks like a real one? I thought that’s why they were all fluorescent transparent plastic.
yes all “fake guns” have to have bright orange bands around the end of the barrel.
paint them over and Vola!
GOD damm libs, i swear to Zeus!…
hell around here we have regular Raffles for guns, even ones for kids..
30-30’s and .22 20 gauges…
Don’t liberals have anything better to do? Really!
Posted by InsipiD on 10/04/07 at 04:20 PM from United States
Don’t liberals have anything better to do? Really!
this IS what they do.
Sano said he took the water pistol from a 9-year-old boy while working as a lifeguard, and the child told him where he had received it.
take my sons toy and he getting an ass-kicking.
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Nonsense. We all know squirt guns are gateway weapons to the harder stuff.