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In reply to the discussion: Justice for Tamir Rice! 12 year old shot and killed for a BB gun. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)If it fired any sort of projectile it wouldn't have had the orange tip nor is it required to. Last I heard it was a BB gun, but I still don't know what sort of gun it was. Yes, if it was a legally defined toy gun that had an orange tip that was removed than whoever did it was an idiot.
Seeing as I made the mistake of disguising the orange tip of a toy gun because I never considered the reason the orange tip was there or why there should be a giant warning notice on the tag or packaging of toy guns. I got mine at a Halloween shop though and it had no packaging or tag at all. None of the larger toy guns did. Come to think of it, I don't think the smaller toy ones did either.
I disguised mine with black nail polish never imagining what the purpose of the orange tip was though I should have thought about that first. I never noticed that all the toy guns also had these orange tips, and if I did maybe I would have wondered about the purpose then. Since I made that mistake and did disguise the orange tip and so easily I'm sure that others would have as well never figuring out why as I did.
Since I never ended up using that costume and it never left the house, I was lucky that nothing happened to me because of it though I would think with the costume to match, it being Halloween, and the style of the gun was obviously one from the early 1900's even if I had used it for that party likely it would have been assumed that it wasn't real.
So I can see an adult seeing the orange tip, not realizing what it's purpose was and not really thinking about it might disguise it or whack it off. But not if it looked like an authentic bullet firing gun because then I WOULD have thought, "Crap, what if someone thinks that it's real?" and not want to take that chance. Generally, I'm adverse to toy guns (legally classified toy guns) and had I had children it wouldn't be something I'd get them anyway - I would never want my child to believe that guns are fun particularly in the society we have today.
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