Cops Lecture Parents About 7-Year-Old’s
Toy Gun
Townhall,
by
Todd Starnes
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/16/2020 5:01:53 AM
There's really nothing worse than neighbors ratting out neighbors. But that's what Democrats are urging citizens to do across the country. And more often than not innocent Americans are getting caught in the crosshairs.
Sheila Perez Smith tells the Todd Starnes Show that she was stunned when the police showed up at her home near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Smith's 7-year-old son had just completed a zoom class from the den of their home when she received an urgent email from her son's first grade teacher.
It just so happened that the little boy had recently been gifted a toy gun
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 5/16/2020 5:43:31 AM (No. 412473)
Neighbors are being primed for the day when the local commies need block captains. This behavior is being encouraged and rewarded by mayors of LA, NYC, etc.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/16/2020 6:11:18 AM (No. 412476)
I had the two gun set up when I was a kid. I guess they would have to have sent SWAT.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/16/2020 6:13:08 AM (No. 412477)
Publish the identity of the police officer who visited the Smith home and brow beat the family because of their possession of a toy gun. Publish the identity of the police supervisor who sent the officer to the Smith home. Tools of PC who pose as police officers don't deserve anonymity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 5/16/2020 6:41:22 AM (No. 412488)
I've been lucky. I've never got such a lecture from a cop. Before someone tells me how to live my life, they better be able to prove they are living there's better.
Yesterday I took some of my grandsons out shooting real guns. age range 9-14. They were all completely safe and their marksmanship was superior.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/16/2020 7:10:24 AM (No. 412507)
Can you say, "Jack-booted thugs?"
Of course you can. And any cop acting this way on behalf of his superiors qualifies. Jack... Booted... Thug!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
worried 5/16/2020 7:23:50 AM (No. 412523)
I'd have told that cop to save his lecture for a real criminal. Toys are toys and kids recognize them as such. Leave or I'll call a real cop. And I would have posted his name on social media as a brownshirt.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/16/2020 7:27:39 AM (No. 412525)
It’s never too early to start the indoctrination of the children....... gun evil, Orange Man Bad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 5/16/2020 7:39:18 AM (No. 412531)
The police officer should have been chastised as well as the supervisor who sent him out there. The police have no business telling parents that their children can not have toy guns. The parents should have informed him of such and told him to leave the house.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
agrunt 5/16/2020 7:54:36 AM (No. 412547)
I am very fond of the police and will stand by them in times of trouble. However, when one shows up at my door unannounced I will not allow them inside my house until I know and understand the purpose of their visit. This guy would not have entered my house absent a properly made out warrant. And he would have had the door shut once I understood his purpose of my visit.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/16/2020 7:59:45 AM (No. 412552)
Gee, I’m old enough to remember when every boy had a pair of Roy Rogers six guns and a holster to carry them in. All the kids played cowboys and Indians and there were no school shootings at all.
And adding to #4, our daughter learned to shoot when she was 9. We had an NRA gun safety specialist friend teach her.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TLCary 5/16/2020 8:15:41 AM (No. 412561)
The manufacturer of the toy should sue. The officer needs fired. Their judgement is inadequate to their authority. Names of who called the police should be published and they should be charged with Doxing. It's not legal to do that. Lawyer up family, and get some cash out of it. It's our only defense against this oppression.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/16/2020 8:31:01 AM (No. 412576)
If you can't tell me who said it, you don't get to "talk" to me about it. A boy having a toy gun is not a crime, and it's not a crime to have real guns in my home, so you don't get to lecture me. You came to my home with a gun; how can I be sure I'm safe standing outside with you? Get off my freakin property! And don't come back. Hear! . . . Bye!
Freakin tattletale people better remember; snitches get freakin stitches is real.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
janjan 5/16/2020 8:54:33 AM (No. 412594)
Simple. Shut the door. Tell the cop he can come back when he has a warrant. Know your rights and stand your ground. If you don’t you will have no rights.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 5/16/2020 9:04:06 AM (No. 412600)
My experience with police officers varies. I've lived countries where we were strongly cautioned against calling the police because they would simply blame any crime on you, impound your furniture, and demand bribes to release it.
Mostly, they've been useless. On several occasions, I've called the police and asked them to take action against people clearly breaking the law. Instead, I found myself in a protracted negotiation whether they would actually do their job or not. The impression I got was that I was an annoyance for actually wanting them to arrest someone.
Incidents like this remind me why cops are symptoms of a bad idea -- the idea that we are incapable policing ourselves. That our society needs armed men authorized to stand over us and impose force upon us.
There was a time when people policed one another and formed posse comitatus for larger challenges. Americans had more freedom and fewer cops and criminals only lasted until sunset. In that time, this cop would have been walked out of town and told to pick a direction to keep walking. I think I would have preferred that time.
Lately, I've had a gutful of people telling me what to do.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
fayebeck 5/16/2020 9:29:02 AM (No. 412627)
#14 you are so correct. In all my contacts with the "heroes" of law enforcement, I have been told "there's nothing we can do." Always. When a lying thug cop says HE can't press charges, HE is a liar. My wife will call the fuzz. Most of the time they do not respond. I will never call the "heroes" of law enforcement for anything. Neighborhood watch? Just a feel good bs thing. I will never refer to any cop as a "hero."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 5/16/2020 9:33:51 AM (No. 412634)
I remember I had a six shooter that you took the bullets out of, separated into two pieces, loaded a round 'cap' into the casing, put it together and you had a six shooter cap gun...something like that these days would make these SJW's dribble in their panties.....and as far as the cops, no warrant, no entrance, no sermon...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/16/2020 10:19:05 AM (No. 412687)
The cops came to my home when my 16 year old daughter had a party and informed me that there was a complaint about the noise. When I asked who complained, I was told that they couldn't tell me, by law. A year or two after that incident, at around 3am, I called about a neighbor's child prayers ticking his drums, and was I informed that I had to identify myself, because the neighbor had the right to know who the accuser was. The child's father was a LEO, so I dropped my complaint to avoid future harassment. I did, however, shine a red laser pointer at the noise, and the drumming stopped.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MuncsSister 5/16/2020 10:19:54 AM (No. 412690)
Find out the name of the Karen parent who started it all and then publicly share it. Ric Grenell them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ruhn 5/16/2020 10:57:10 AM (No. 412731)
You gotta love those anonymous busy-body snitches (aka’Karen’) who erode away what’s left of community trust.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JackBurton 5/16/2020 11:22:53 AM (No. 412761)
Doesn't sound as if the teachers have enough brains to look after a child, much less educate one.
Gotta be an attorney out there somewhere who...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/16/2020 11:34:01 AM (No. 412774)
Once I had established what the visit was about, I would have told the officer, "Good bye" and turned
and closed the door.
And I would look at filing an official police report on harassment against the officer and the department.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
zzzghy 5/16/2020 1:53:29 PM (No. 412885)
I grew up in the 60's and had a serious arsenal of realistic toy guns. We all did; we played Army all the time, running around the neighborhood shooting each other... It was great fun.
We all grew up to be successful normal adults.
Just saying.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Smart11344 5/16/2020 2:42:30 PM (No. 412911)
I was born in 1944. When I was 5 or 6 I had a cap gun. Many boys had them. We played cops and robbers and heaven forbid, Cowboys and Indians. None of us had a clue that one day we would be incosiderate racists or whatever.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/16/2020 6:50:27 PM (No. 413075)
Hey, calm down everyone. No one was mistakenly shot to death or slammed to the ground or even maced. All those things happen far too often when amped up cowboy cops go to a location to 'restore order.' The police in this situation are projecting all their paranoia onto this kid and this family. It's fine to be cynical about humanity. Probably a good defensive strategy for dealing with the 1 out of 5 nutjobs they come across. This response was WAY over the line for many reasons.
First of all they demand an inventory of firearms. No. Then they get on some imagined high horse about who is allowed to talk about guns, play with toy guns or have any contact with guns, real, imagined or toys. Not your job pal. You don't get to raise anyone's kid except your own. BTW, 7 is an excellent age to talk about weapons and the difference between fantasy and reality. It is a part of growing up and learning about responsibility. Some idiots on a zoom call don't get to set any agendas for the rest of us. At least not yet and if that day arrives in full force there will be no doubt about who has a toy and who has a real gun.
I agree with the previous posters. File a report. Thanks to sleazy dopes who called the cops, now you are a project for the stupid cops in the story. A report was filed so you might as well put them on notice that you were harassed. Or not. If the entire department is like the stupid cops who felt they had the right to lecture over a toy, your best move might be to move to the western part of PA. Get at least one mountain between you.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
or gate 5/16/2020 7:26:11 PM (No. 413112)
All kids should be playing with dolls.
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WTAF!!??? Whatever happened to the right to confront your accuser?? The nosy self-important creep who turned in this child should at least be brave enough to identify themselves!!