You’ve heard about the 13-year-old with a BB gun that got shot by a cop. After the people got tired of blaming the cop, they turn on the tool:
“…has reignited a national debate on the wisdom of manufacturing BB, pellet and airsoft guns to look like firearms, and whether new laws or bans are needed to prevent future tragedy.”
Source: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20131110/articles/131119980#page=0
But of course, let’s ruin life for everyone because of one single tragedy. Just because Andy Lopez didn’t put his BB-gun down when the cop told him to, doesn’t mean Airsoft is the problem.
“What purpose do these imitation firearms serve?” said Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis, whose district includes part of Sonoma Valley and the city of Rohnert Park. “Do we need to manufacture them?”
Look at how they talk, this woman has never built anything in her life, much less change a flat tire, yet she said “do we need to manufacture them” as if it was her company, her business, her decision.
As for what purpose they serve, tell me, Mariko, what purpose does PBS serve? What purpose do city and state-funded museums and opera houses serve? These cultural collectivists just can’t accept that all have different ways of entertaining ourselves. Now I’m not into Airsoft, to me that’s like having sex with a blowup doll when you could be screwing the real thing, but I respect those that do, and so should Mariko.
Ryan Podesta, who owns Thirty First Outfitters and Playland in Cotati, said kids want BB guns that look like the real thing, and that they’ll simply modify the weapons if the law changes.
“John Wayne didn’t have a pink rifle. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t carry an orange machine gun,” Podesta said. “Our military and heroes and our troops that we’re supporting and who kids look up to … they’re not carrying around Day-Glo weapons.”
He called the response to Lopez’s death a “knee-jerk reaction” to a “terrible incident.”
Exactly! Maybe Mariko needs to focus on her job and leave the toys to the toymakers and sellers. Jesus F. Christ, these Californians would regulate how many times we go to the bathroom if they could.
