Toy Gun Control Now Being Imposed by Parents After Sandy Hook

Just before Christmas, I walked into Ozark's new Dollar General store. On the end cap was a collection of plastic toy guns. They don't make these things as nice as back in the day when we played war and cowboys in the backyard.

I thought to myself if Dollar General was located in a more liberal community these things wouldn't be on the shelf after Sandy Hook. There is now evidence to suggest that is the case.


One Chicago mother, Anupy Singla, had been wrestling for months with whether to keep the Nerf revolver-style blasters that her daughters, ages 7 and 10, enjoyed playing with, several times tossing them into the trash and then retrieving them.

Her indecision ended abruptly on Dec. 14, as she watched the coverage of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people and himself after fatally shooting his mother at home.

“It was just something that inside me really snapped,” said Singla, 44, a cookbook author and food writer, and she threw the playthings away.

I find the geographic location of Singla's residence the most interesting. Having lived in Chicago, I am fully aware of Chicago and Illinois tough gun control laws. Chicago has become murder central despite all the bans on guns in the city, and yet idiots like Singla don't seem capable of waking up and realizing what happens to a populous that has been robbed from the right to bear arms.

She would rather blame violence on Nerf guns, kind of like we hear marijuana is a gateway drug. The rhetoric they use to control us into submission baffles myself.

Thomas Jefferson once stated, "“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

Chicago is proof of that. Yet, rather than teach her children of the responsibility that each American has in the Second Amendment and the responsibility of gun safety, Singla believes the the solution to solve the violence in America is to impose toy gun control. This is insane, especially when you live in Chicago--a town that proves gun control laws don't work.

Oh but the craziness gets better.

New Jersey is another liberal state that makes it harder to own a gun.  Eileen Zyko Wolter hails from Jersey and began a toy gun prohibition for her children after Sandy Hook.

“I felt like they needed to understand that play guns could lead to real-life consequences,” said Wolter, 41, of Summit, N.J., a blogger. “If you’re aiming a play gun and shooting it, you’re practicing shooting at people.”

Good grief! I played cowboy, especially The Lone Ranger, when I was growing up. I had all sorts of toy guns. While I have pointed many a toy gun at kids in the neighborhood, I have never pointed a gun at an individual with only one exception, when I was playing war games in the Army and my M-16 was transformed into a laser tag gun for the training. Other than that, I have never once considered pointing a gun at anyone and am very strict at the gun range that barrel faces down range at all times.

Millions of children grew up playing with toy guns, and I know many of them are now responsible gun owners who too have never pointed a gun at another individual. Perhaps if we really educated children rather than push the rhetoric coming from the government, we might have a generation of children who understand guns don't kill. People kill. Perhaps some churchin' might help to build a moral conscience in these matters.