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Jeff Ward
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A temporary ban on toy guns. Really? Does that do anything to address the violence at Sandy Hook?
My younger son and his friends love to play with Airsoft guns. We’d prefer he indulge in his less-violent interests, but my wife and I have come to realize that capricious household bans often backfire and those toys aren’t nearly as dangerous as the BB guns of our youth. For the uninitiated, Airsoft guns, which may or may not be smaller-sized replicas of the real thing, are generally plastic contraptions that fire various caliber plastic BBs at very low velocities. If the boys wear sweatshirts and the masks the company sells, they can engage in a far cleaner version of paintball without fear of injury or collateral damage. So as you might imagine, with some pre-Christmas money burning a hole clean through his right hand pocket, my son and…
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Jeff Ward
2:06 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
Jon, Though I probably shouldn't be surprised, I can't believe someone actually wrote, "Using your logic we should ban all passenger planes." Really??? No, but they certainly banned anyone from taking a box cutters on a airplane. more ›