http://www.newser.com/story/169204/school-holds-firearms-buyback-for-toy-guns.html
(NEWSER) – A California school is running a "toy gun exchange" today, offering students a free book and a chance to win a bicycle in if they hand in their plastic pistols, reports theSan Jose Mercury News." Playing with toys 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 ," says the school's principal Charles Hill. " If we want older kids to not think guns are cool, we need to start early."A local gun rights group is not a fan of the exchange idea. " While the intentions are obviously good on the part of the school administration, this doesn't really educate children about guns or gun safety ," says a spokesperson from Responsible Citizens of California.He also questioned whether toy guns really look that much like actual firearms. "Toy manufacturers are forced to paint guns in bright colors ... that make it virtually impossible for an officer to mistake it for a real gun ," he says. But Hill disagrees. " Some of the guns I've confiscated, if they're stuck down in a waistband, the average person would think it's a real gun," he says.
of course he does there is in their rhetoric no connection because of color?everything but get rid of the guns from the gun people, excuses as to why it's not an issue falls on the graves of those who have died because of them.
http://www.irol.com/avc/fact_sheet_about_toy_guns.html
more awareness may help more than anything else, buy back IMO puts in the mind of a child a certain connection with the real guns that the news reported in relation to buy backs.
i'm 64 when i was in the 6th grade i brought toy guns to school Rifleman rifle, teacher snitched and that was the end of it and my end too. lol
seriously the connection to being treated like the real deal has to have some kind of impact on their reality of guns toy and real.
