Toy Guns Will Frighten Cops Into Shooting Kids

Police warn parents against buying toy guns as Christmas presents.

Parents are being warned by police not to buy their children realistic looking toy guns this Christmas as it could lead to them being shot by armed marksmen.

Senior officers are becoming increasingly alarmed at the amount of calls they are responding to that involve young people innocently playing with imitation firearms.

Most children, parents and teachers are unaware of the risks generated by toy and imitation guns, officers say.

As well as children playing in the street, student film-makers have been warned about using fake guns in their productions.

Just the kind of police we want: hysterical, armed wimps frightened of kids with toys.

More Frightening Than Nick Griffin

‘Routine’ armed police units for London streets - Times Online

The prospect of an armed police service moved a step closer yesterday when Scotland Yard announced the formation of a new firearms unit that will routinely patrol gun crime hotspots in London.

This is comletely unnecessary and dangerous. The police seem to be getting more out of control as the months go by. According to this article the decision was taken at assistant commissioner level, in which case whoever authorised it should be sacked immediately.

The police are hardly to be trusted with weapons in the most difficult situations as it is. To have them parading around our streets with weapons on a regular basis is a frightening prospect. There are obviously elements within the police force who are building up a little empire for themselves, probably on the understanding that the next few years in this country could get difficult.

What's doubly worrying is that this is obviously going on without any scrutiny (or even awareness) by our politicians.