scenario...your views?

[twinkles**stars]

How would you react to this scenario?

Driving along a road you see a young boy in school uniform on his way to school waving a gun and knife at passing traffic.

Would you ignore him or take steps to ensure the gun and knife are 'toys' and not the real deal?

[lakeland27]

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@my*mum wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

in your opinion. at a school in this region a boy took dads gun to school this year, and it was only luck and some good intelligence that averted a potential disaster.  i think ts actions are to be praised.  i like the idea of people actually doing something when it might prove helpful.

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I agree. I think Twinks has done the right thing.

If it was innocent, then no harm done.

Even without the "weapons", he was distracting traffic, he was endangering his own life and that of others.

I'm not sure if calling the school or the police would have been my first response, but certainly one of them. At least Twinks did something and alerted someone.

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yes. it also prepares a boy for real life, where carrying a replica or toy gun can get his head blown off

[joz*garage]

altho i personally wouldnt be alarmed if i saw a kid waving a toy gun around in any situation really, on their way to school or after school or when ever

twinks did say he was wearing school uniform on his way to school, so by law that is a no no, siggie

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Toy guns are completely legal.

Alarmists are just more comfortable being alarmed......and hysterical     

Poor kids have to suffer them too.

[cherry*135]

Fast food burgers & chips, pizza's chocolate, confectionery, cakes etc are legal too. That doesn't mean kids it is good for kids to eat copious quantities of these products.

[joz*garage]

i dunno about you siggie but i actually learnt something from these boards LOL

if i had kids i'd make sure they'd abide by the schools rules

not saying its a bad thing to play with toy guns, in public mebbe, most dont go on to continue childish behaviour

but that bloke who pointed a gun at me obviously didnt grow out of it

[**meep**]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

He has done nothing wrong.

He was playing with the same toys that millions of other children in Australia play with.

Except, he had his path crossed by someone who has contacted his school, the police and was it the board of education.

He has become the victim of TS's hysteria. Sounds like unfair treatment to me.

Toy weapons are not illegal.

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In the state of Victoria, devices that can reasonably  be mistaken for working firearms based on their overall appearance (but do not have the functionality of a working firearm) are classified as imitation firearms.

A Chief Commisioner's Prohibited Weapons Approval or Governor in Council Exemption is required to possess, carry, use, offer for sale or import an imitation firearm.

[**meep**]

The child should consider himself lucky that now, thanks to Twinkles, he and possibly his parents will be aware of the law.

[ca04]

what is unsafe about a toy gun.? only to people with closed minds is there any pretense of danger.!

[*elizabeths-mum*]

How would you tell nowadays!

http://www.guns.com/2013/10/21/pick-pink-gun-breast-cancer-awareness-month/

[**meep**]

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@*elizabeths-mum* wrote:
How would you tell nowadays!

http://www.guns.com/2013/10/21/pick-pink-gun-breast-cancer-awareness-month/

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I watched a show a while back about a family that owned a gun shop.  The daughter designed a 'girlie'  pink, easier to handle automatic rifle.