California school begins toy gun turn-in program

Adam Kester walks down the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall with a customized NERF blaster strapped to his leg on Friday, March 29, 2013, at WSU’s campus in Pullman, Wash.

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea : he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.

Really.

Hill believes that children who play with toy guns may not think real guns are dangerous. “Playing with toy guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun,” he claims. Full story . William Bigelow, Breitbart

Did you play with toy guns when you were a child? Do you let your kids play with them?