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Just when you thought the POLICE in the UK could not get any sillier or more dangerous - now they are threatening to shoot children with toy guns.

For over 200 years children have played with toy guns and yet neither the army or police have ever threatened this before.

It shows how OUT OF CONTROL the Police now are - these are TOYS.

It seems that even the children of the UK are now the target of the TRIGGER HAPPY POLICE.

It is time to take the guns OFF THE POLICE - they dont deserve to have them if they think that a child with a toy could be subject to an armed raid.

Digraceful behaviour by our OUT OF CONTROL police. They need ELECTED COMMISSIONERS answerable to the PEOPLE - so we can SACK these incompetent POLICE BUFFOONs.

Take the guns off of the Police? How about taking the guns off of the children. There is NO reason whatsoever for a child to own a toy gun ,a toy knife or any other kind of toy weapon. The selling of toy weapons should be outlawed. We campaign against child soldiers in other countries but allow our five year olds to play with toy guns. Who is the sicker society?

I totally agree, Giles.

dreadful little blighters should be seen and not heard.

a link to a new US film which delves into the current USA madness of destoying their children :

www.thewaronkids.com/

I had plenty of toy guns as a little boy in the 1950’s and so did every other boy, from Davy Crockett flintlock pistols to Range Rider cap revolvers with which we used to play happily, re-enacting scenes we had seen on films at the cinema, such as The Fastest Gun Alive, or on television in series such as Cheyenne. I suppose you could say we had then, to coin another film title from the time, Gun Glory. It did me no lasting harm whatsoever. In fact, I still have an April, 1958 photo of myself, aged eleven, holding and pointing at the camera a replica Colt .45 Peacemaker revolver. However, times in the UK have changed considerably in the nearly fifty-two years since then and no doubt if I was seen wandering the streets today as an eleven year old with that replica Peacemaker, I’d soon find myself surrounded by an armed police response unit.

Which is more dangerous - a real gun or a toy ?

Does this mean we get rid of the Doctors and Nurses stuff which kids play with and Action Men etc. ?

"Play" is actually a way of re-inforcing right and wrong. So if you deny kids a chance to be "goodies and baddies" they never learn the difference.

Once you eliminate the idea of right and wrong from a child's life - they become "putty" in the hands of a dictatorship that becomes all powerful.

The STATE ( NWO are behind it ) wish to brainwash children into relying on them for everything.

This is shown by people giving over responsibility for everything to "the STATE" - so when something goes wrong we all ask for a new law or to ban something. Giles - though you are not even aware of this you have fallen for this.

I am anti war - I dont want to see violent video games for young children. But I dont see a problem with toy guns which parents can use to re-inforce the idea that there are baddies ( the ones with guns ) and goodies - the Police without guns. ( Though the STATE has decided to criminalise the Police by giving them all weapons called TASERS and some of them GUNS )

Open your eyes people and switch on your brains. We are being so heavily brainwashed now by the media it takes someone with a strong mind to not fall for all of this crap - or you have to stop watching the TV and opt out of newspapers etc. The MEDIA is now marching to a single TUNE - the tune of the ALL POWERFUL NWO STATE ( and it is same Worldwide ) - in the UK we are one of the countries leading this.

When I was young I used my grandfather's old walking stick as a toy gun. Kids improvise, and there have been cases of police shooting people for carrying table legs, so banning toy guns will not solve any problems. We, as a society, need to get a grip and stop panicking over every sight and sound. A toy is just a toy. Problems in today's society are caused by our own attitudes, not by objects. Of course if we have police who are free to pin an unarmed man to the ground and shoot him seven times in the head, who we then tell our children are the good guys, even heroes, we shouldn't be surprised if the kids want to copy these "heroes" by carrying toy guns and playing at execution. I'm sure some kids even watch the TV shows such as "Brit Cops, Zero Tolerance" where these good guys smash down doors and use high levels of violence when only a degree of diplomacy is required.

We create our own monsters.

A kid with a toy gun is simply a kid with a toy gun .. until someone with a serious lack of common sense and reason comes along to tell us differently.

Have to agree myself.While toy guns are a tradition they are a bad one.In this age of terrorism valuable police time is wasted following up reports of these,when they could be doing more useful things like assisting false accusers.

south London police should take up the action instead. Guns are rife amongst kids from the age of 11 upwards.

I have not heard of any cases where the Police have intervened in toy gun issues apart from when a couple of toddlers were in a car ( a few months ago )

The easiest thing to do is to say that these toys are not for use in a public place.

I am against all wars and against real guns. I am against violent films and violence on TV - but I am not against kids "playing". If we ban kids from playing ( and they imagine every type of scenario when little ) then we stunt their growth and development.

The Police should get rid of their guns and become Police again rather than trigger happy types.

When was the last Policeman shot by a gun ? I cant remember one instance this year. Yet they are arming themselves to the teeth with weapons. Crazy.

Where do you draw the line? Stop kids dressing up as Bob the Builder with toy hammers? They'll be banning Tom and Jerry next for being too violent. Utter madness.

I have to wonder why any parent would see the desirability of "toy" guns. It's only a toy, right?
Would you give your son a stack of pornographic mags and an inflatable woman? Is a vibrator a suitable gift for your 12 year old daughter?
Extreme? Well that all depends on how hard and honestly you're prepared to think about it.

If we ban toy guns we must also ban toy soldiers, ban all video games which involve shooting or violence, ban all TV shows featuring guns and violence, ban kids from watching the news, ban the teaching of a great chunk of history, and probably much more. Kids, especially boys, will act out gun scenes using their fingers if that's all they have. If we ban toy guns we'll make them more desirable to kids because they'll be something "naughty" or "grown up". It's not the toy that is a problem, it's the way kids are taught about such things. If we balance the play with proper education about the dangers of firearms then there should be no problem. If we pretend guns don't exist or make them taboo, then if our kids do ever get hold of a real one they'll probably be far less responsible with it than if they'd had some preparation.

The problem with people who want to ban everything is that they never see the bigger picture.

When one child points a toy gun at another, that other pretends to die, because they know that's what happens when you shoot someone. If they don't learn that through play, they might never know until it happens for real.

I predicted this 9 years ago; when conviction without evidence moved to conviction of non existent crimes and prosecution of people viewing imaginary pictures created through graphics became thought crime.

Agatha Christie fans watch out.

I think we have to realise that Under 10s will create play situations which mimic life. Just because they have a toy car and crash it into a wall or throw it out of a window does not mean that they will copy that behaviour into real life !!!

Children develop better skills by using their imagination through play. In fact a Toy Gun is much more preferable to watching a TV Screen of shoot em up films. Children copy films and TV - they lack the skills to assimilate the information.

Play is vital for kids. If we start to dictate what a child can and cant play at then we are creating prisons for our children before then are even capable of understanding many things.

The POLICE want to stretch their dead hand into peoples' lives to the point where they want to control what kids play at.....that is deeply scary in itself and smacks of REAL NAZI philosphy. The EDL are not fascists - the real fascists wear uniforms and tell people what they can and cant do.......

I am anti war and anti guns - but I am pro play and Cowboys and Indians and such games are an essential part of development - it creates a sense of right and wrong - and can even show the damage that guns do in many different levels.

Banning everything is something which this Government wants to do. They want to micro manage our lives. We must not let them.

Well said Emma Bee