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Councilwoman Wants To Ban Toy Guns
Philadelphia Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller is concerned about the gun violence in this city. Crowd: How concerned is she? Why, she’s so concerned with the gun violence in this city she’s going to ban the sale of toy guns! (Pause for laughter.) Exactly, that’s not funny. Because, of course, it’s true! It’s buried in this Friday Inquirer City Council roundup: “Just how to determine which toy guns meet those characteristics will be discussed in hearings, Miller said. Her legislation includes detailed exceptions, including toys that are made of see-through plastic or have bright coloring.” Hey, wait, that doesn’t even sound that awful. Oh no, has a City Councilwoman finally introduced stupid nitpicky legislation that’s well-thought out in advance and essentially bulletproof? Oh well. I guess I could complain about time wasted in hearings, but it’s not like that time was going to be used for something more important. I’ll have to investigate more. The legislation isn’t up on the website yet, but hopefully the wording will be better than it was for the voluntary toy gun sale moratorium last fall, which began: “The City Council Of Philadelphia Calls Upon The Responsible Merchants Of Philadelphia – During These Troubling Times, With Gun Violence At An All Time High - To Implement A Voluntary Moratorium On The Sale of Toys Guns In The Philadelphia Stores.” (Other than that, it wasn’t that bad, surprisingly. Donna Reed Miller clearly does not want to be made fun of for this.) For more restrained commentary on this issue, please head to the place where I first read about this, Domelights. An example: “I’m sick of ‘it’s society’s fault, it’s the gun’s fault, there ain’t enough jobs…..etc. etc.” Ha, how dare politicians attempt to end poverty and improve society. |
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What about guns that look like penises?
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! Doesn’t this person have better things to do with her time?
Look, I’m always for trying to reduce gun violence, as long as it’s done within reason. But banning toy guns? Even friggin’ Super Soakers?! Honestly, this is just nuts! Banning toys… seriously, why?
There is so MUCH more she should be doing, like the rising crime rate in her district, the fact that we need her to start tackling the issues of drugs in our neighborhood… there is just so much for her to do and shes wasting her time on this nonsense?!