Libertarian condemned after school Guns for Tots toy drive
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City officials condemned a Manhattan Libertarian Party member who held a Guns for Tots toy drive outside a public school and gave fake guns to children.
Jim Lesczynski said he handed out the imitation weapons in front of P.S. 72 in East Harlem on Thursday in response to a bill that would ban the guns' sale or possession.
``Water pistols, noise makers and other plastic gun-shaped novelties are the stuff of any red-blooded American childhood,'' Lesczynski said at a City Council committee hearing on the bill earlier in the day. Someone might want to point out to those city officials that people DO have freedom of speech, here. And the freedom to own and sell toys, including toy guns. If the city wants to discourage criminals from using fake guns, then it should make the penalty for committing a crime with a fake gun the same as the penalty for committing a crime with a real gun. But I guess that's just too logical to stomach. |
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