{"id":2237,"date":"2013-06-11T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:32:57","slug":"elementary-school-beginning-toy-gun-turn-in-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/11\/elementary-school-beginning-toy-gun-turn-in-program\/","title":{"rendered":"ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEGINNING TOY GUN TURN-IN PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130611-125342\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nerf_gun_ap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Really.<\/p>\n<p>Hill believes that children who play with toy guns may not think real guns are dangerous. \u201cPlaying with toy guns, saying \u2018I\u2019m going to shoot you,\u2019 desensitizes them, so as they get older, it\u2019s easier for them to use a real gun,\u201d he claims.<\/p>\n<p>Hill was inspired by a school photographer, Horace Gibson, who was upset about the number of police shootings of young people in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>At Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, a local policeman will demonstrate bicycle and gun safety, (does he get to use a real gun?), while the Alameda County Fire Department will speak about fire safety. Just to show that local governments can do surveillance too, there will be opportunities for the children to be fingerprinted and photographed, with that information transferred to CD\u2019s if it is ever needed for a missing child case.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:\u00a0<a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/06\/10\/Elementary-School-Urges-Students-To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/06\/10\/Elementary-School-Urges-Students-To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns\">http:\/\/www.breitbart \u2026 -To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"azraelssuperd-20\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar_position = \"top\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"Search Results from Amazon\";\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"Nerf\";\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"dfb2858605575b3bb332bd860ff56557\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130611-125342\">ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEGINNING TOY GUN TURN-IN PROGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he\u2019s 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. \u201cPlaying with toy guns, saying \u2018I\u2019m going to shoot you,\u2019 desensitizes them, so as they get older, it\u2019s easier for them to use a real gun,\u201d he claims. Hill was inspired by a school photographer, Horace Gibson, who was upset about the number of police shootings of young people in Oakland. At Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, a local policeman will demonstrate bicycle and gun safety, (does he get to use a real gun?), while the Alameda County Fire Department will speak about fire safety. Just to show that local governments can do surveillance too, there will be opportunities for the children to be fingerprinted and photographed, with that information transferred to CD\u2019s if it is ever needed for a missing child case. Full article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.breitbart \u2026 -To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns via ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEGINNING TOY GUN TURN-IN PROGRAM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}