{"id":102093,"date":"2018-12-27T06:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=102093"},"modified":"2018-12-27T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:24:06","slug":"long-island-toy-gun-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/long-island-toy-gun-buyback\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_102094\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"long-island-toy-gun-buyback\" title=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102094\" title=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange-400x243.png\" alt=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange-400x243.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange-1024x623.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ToyGunExchange.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The toy gun exchange. (<em>Photo: WBAC<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities in Hempstead, Long Island held a toy gun buyback this month for local school children.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty little ones were invited to participate in the event during which they were instructed to exchange their colorful plastic toys for other colorful plastic toys that just happened to not be shaped like a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Children who didn&#8217;t have toy\u00a0guns to bring to the party were actually given water pistols and nerf blasters by organizers so they could play the turn &#8217;em in game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saying no to guns is important &#8211; even toy guns,&#8221; said Hempstead Village Mayor Don Ryan as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/society\/kids-on-long-island-invited-to-exchange-toy-guns-for-other-toys\/4892911\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"long-island-toy-gun-buyback\" title=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\">WABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose is to offer safe alternative to toy guns. We don&#8217;t want the kids playing with guns. Guns are dangerous,&#8221; added Hempstead Village Trustee LaMont Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Though it doesn\u2019t need to be said toy guns are not <em>guns<\/em>, they\u2019re toys! They\u2019re meant to be played with! Unlike real guns, they are by their very nature harmless! A \u201csafe alternative\u201d to a toy gun is a toy gun because it\u2019s just a toy!<\/p>\n<p>Former NYPD officer Sean Acosta sponsored the event. Acosta works with the New York Toy Gun Exchange Program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to make sure when you grow up nothing happens to you,&#8221; Acosta told the children in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Right, because taking away toys from children makes them safer when they become adults. Makes no sense.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/cabot-gold-star-gala-pistol\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"long-island-toy-gun-buyback\" title=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\">Cabot Guns Auctioning Off Gold Star Gala Pistol for Operation 300 Kids<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>How about instead of indoctrinating kids to have an irrational fear of firearms, include toys that resemble firearms, we teach them actual gun safety?\u00a0 And when each child is ready, we teach him or her the tenets of responsible gun ownership?\u00a0 Education, not fear, is the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Because despite what Acosta says, there is no way to make sure &#8220;nothing happens to you.&#8221; Life is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/jordan-peterson-on-self-defense-you-need-to-be-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"long-island-toy-gun-buyback\" title=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\"> dangerous<\/a>.\u00a0 There are some very bad people out there.\u00a0 And not learning how to defend yourself in the face of such people is one way to increase the odds that something<em> does<\/em> happen to you.<\/p>\n<p>As clinical psychologist\u00a0Dr. Jordan Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/jordan-peterson-on-self-defense-you-need-to-be-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"long-island-toy-gun-buyback\" title=\"Long Island Authorities Hold Toy Gun Buyback for Children\">wrote<\/a> in his book &#8220;!2 Rules for Life, &#8220;Naive, harmless people usually guide their perceptions and actions with a few simple axioms: people are basically good; no one really wants to hurt anyone else; the threat (and, certainly, the use) of force, physical or otherwise, is wrong&#8230;These axioms collapse, or worse, in the presence of individuals who are genuinely malevolent. Worse means that naive beliefs can become a positive invitation to abuse, because those who aim to harm have become specialized to prey on people who think precisely such things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The folks running this toy gun buyback are naive.\u00a0 What&#8217;s worse is they&#8217;re setting up these children to be victims later on in life.<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The purpose is to offer safe alternative to toy guns. We don&#8217;t want the kids playing with guns. 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