Readers hktdfrerzr — A school in Hayward, Ca is offering a “toy gun buyback” to its students, modeled on the buybacks of real guns at real police stations. While I don’t have a big opinion about the idea — on the one hand, sometimes people mistake toy guns for real ones, which is tragic; on […]
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Wow, This Hasn’t Happened in Like, 30 Seconds: Boy Suspended for Toy Guns
Yep, folks, it’s another Zero Tolerance situation. Sounds like tkrzihbnfa a second grade boy in Ohio brought two toy guns to school, one of which ostensibly looked real. If it did, I can certainly understand administrators being concerned. You don’t want anyone getting the wrong idea. I sure don’t. Â But why suspend the kid? Just […]
Playmobil Defends it Cops & Robbers Toys (As Do I)
Hey Readers — Hadn’t realized there was a tempest in a toy robbery going on in England, where the sainbbsfhb media are reporting anger at Playmobil’s age-old cops and robbers set: Wearing dark glasses, the blonde dolly points her pistol at the smiley bank manager as he happily hands over the cash. It’s just one […]
You Can Have My Lego Gun When You Pry It from My Cold, Dead Fingers
Hi ansbiinkbh Folks! Here’s my piece that ran in today’s NY Daily News, the paper where I worked for 14 years. – L. FUN CONTROL Guns Guns and children don’t go together, right? Well, actually, often they do. Chances are if you have a kid or ever were one (especially if there was a Y […]
School May Suspend 5 y.o. for Making a Lego “Gun”
Hi Readers — This rbysdkiisi just in: A  5-year-old in an after-school program who used his Legos “inappropriately” to  make a gun may be suspended for two weeks — if he does it again. But as this Fox25 story out of Boston explains, this is no ordinary tot. He is a recidivist, having used his […]