California Elementary School Beginning TOY Gun Turn In Program

[pwaldo]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...rn-In-Toy-Guns

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.

Really.

Hill believes that children who play with toy guns may not think real guns are dangerous. “Playing with toy guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun,” he claims.

Hill, defending his take-away program, asserted that police are justifiably afraid when they face armed suspects, and toy guns have been mistaken for real ones.

But Yih-Chau Chang, spokesman for Responsible Citizens of California, said, ”Having a group of children playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians is a normal part of growing up.”

[mrveggieman]

This is one of the dumbest things that I have heard of in my life. Anything to stiffle a child's imaigination and creativity.

[Wickabee]

This idea has stupid motivation. However, I don't actually have a problem trading any toys for books and I don't think books stifle imagination and creativity. The blind space dude on Reading Rainbow told me so.


Take a step back from your defense of guns post and realize you just said books stifle imagination.

[mrveggieman]

This idea has stupid motivation. However, I don't actually have a problem trading any toys for books and I don't think books stifle imagination and creativity. The blind space dude on Reading Rainbow told me so.


Take a step back from your defense of guns post and realize you just said books stifle imagination.

I don't have a problem with a child reading books but I do have a problem with a child having his creativity stifled. Also what kind of books will be offered in exchange for the toy guns?

[Wickabee]

I don't have a problem with a child reading books but I do have a problem with a child having his creativity stifled. Also what kind of books will be offered in exchange for the toy guns?

That would he something you would have to know before saying this stifles creativity, wouldn't it? I honestly can't think of a book with less creative motivation than a gun. I can think of some that have equal creative elements, but not less.

[centrehice]

I don't have a problem with a child reading books but I do have a problem with a child having his creativity stifled. Also what kind of books will be offered in exchange for the toy guns?

Are you serious? Really?