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Discourage use, sale of toy guns
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 27, 2012 11:41 am
Recently, I viewed an ad on television promoting a plastic “automatic shooter” that fired 9 mm Nerf bullets. The ad showed adults shooting each other in a backyard setting. I believe that this type of toy provides an unacceptable opportunity for people to “practice” killing other people.
For those who are drugged, demented or drunk, it is a short step to replacing the Nerf bullets and shooter with real bullets in a real gun.
Please contact the store manager wherever you find these “death toys” and ask them to be responsible and pull these from their shelves.
John A. Gross
Iowa City
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