There's been a lot of talk about guns in the country recently because of the recent shootings, and now people are even asking the questions, what are you going to do next?
Ban toy guns?
Well, that's exactly what they want to do in the state of New York.
The New York Attorney General has come out.
He says places like Walmart, Kmart, they need to stop selling these devilish toy guns.
They look like the real thing, but these guns are toys.
For as little as $10, you can buy them online and in stores even though they're illegal in New York.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says that stops now.
Toy guns are mistaken for real guns.
There could be tragic consequences.
Schneiderman's office conducted an investigation that found many retailers selling prohibited toy guns online and shipping them into the state.
Investigators also uncovered at least one retailer selling illegal toy guns in its stores.
The state and federal law are clear.
Retailers cannot put children at risk by selling toy guns that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
State law prohibits the sale of it.
So what this guy is saying that if you sell a gun such as this, if your orange tip is not long enough, they're state standard, then you're selling an illegal gun and thus putting the child in danger.
Now when I look at this gun and I look at this gun, which is actually a gun, looking at them like this, I can tell this is a toy gun and this is at least what appears to be the real thing.
Now granted, if somebody's carrying these in a waistband, You don't really know, especially if you're walking at a distance.
Well, let's take a look at some of the more recent shootings we've had in the country because of toy guns, BB guns, whatever.
Cleveland police officer shoots 12-year-old boy carrying a BB gun.
Walmart shop is shot dead by cops after picking up a BB gun.
Cop who killed 13-year-old boy armed with a plastic BB gun back on duty.
And, you know, there have been adults that have been shot, but the thing that troubles me the most are the children.
You know, when you see a child, even if you think it is a real gun, if you jump out and immediately shoot the child, I think there's something very wrong with that.
You can try to talk to the child, hey son, can you put it down, even if you have to talk over the loudspeaker?
But why I think this continues to happen is the federalized training a lot of these guys are getting, and you can see the article, DHS Supply provides shooting targets of American gun owners.
And you can see the no more hesitation targets of a pregnant woman, of an old man, and of course, The little boy with a real gun.
And at least on here it says a real gun.
A lot of times these kids don't have real guns.
They may not have a tip on them, but that should put some type of question in the officer's mind.
Is this in fact a real gun?
And when we talk about these situations of children getting shot, let's take a look at this Tamir Rice video.
So he's out here.
He's playing around with his toy gun.
Officers arrive.
Jump out and immediately shoot the boy dead.
Now, like I said, they could have tried to talk to the child, they could have parked the car farther away, told them over the loudspeaker, can you please drop your weapon if they thought it was a real gun, but no, no pepper spray, no taser, just jump out and shoot the kid dead.
And then people say, well, you know, he had a gun or something that looked like a gun.
What is the officer supposed to do?
Well, we see instances where officers shoot at people who aren't even carrying a gun.
Let's take a look at this situation that happened right here in the city of Austin, Texas.
A police officer was fired after he shot an unarmed man.
And so, hold on, let me tell you.
So this guy gets pulled over.
And, you know, he's expecting to show his license and registration.
So he reaches for his wallet and gets shot at by the police.
And you can see it right there.
What he thought was a gun, what the officer thought a gun, turned out to be the man's wallet.
Completely ridiculous.
You know, it's the training these guys get.
They think everybody's their enemy.
They think everybody is going to kill them.
So if you look for, if you reach for something that your wallet doesn't, anything like this at all, doesn't have the shape of this at all, you just happen to reach in a certain area.
The officer opened fires.
Luckily, the guy didn't get killed and the officer lost his job because of this incident.
But we need to retrain these officers and teach them that not everybody is their enemy.