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S. Jordan Council OKs ordinance that bans toy weapons on public property

This is a rediculous ordinance the interfers with the 2nd ammendment. Public parks and property is a good place to teach children gun safety and how to use and respect a real weapon. Open areas are very limited and this ordinance is putting another block on gun education. How can a toy gun be considered a weapon? Perhaps if it is used as a club, but so can a baseball bat, also prevelant on public proberty. Anything you can hold in your hand can be considered a weapon if a person wants to. The council should be more active in gun use and gun safety than what law enforcement considers a threat. Children should be taught gun safety and gun use, not made to fear their rights to own and poses a gun. And with all state gun laws it should be a law that any person with military experience is an authorized gun handler. What better gun and weapon training can you get than in the military? Perhaps this is the group of citizens feared the most, those willing to defend and use a gun or weapon to protect their lives and property from thieves and government.

You have to be kidding me. Did the mayor of south Jordan really use the old �but think about the children� line to try to justify such a ridiculous law? The world is not falling apart at the seams people and your children acting like normal children is not going to bring about the destruction of the world. I hate to tell you mayor it is the same world you and I grew-up in you are just looking at it from the perspective of an over protective parent now.

So by comparing the danger between using a TOY gun and a real gun, South Jordan decided that TOY guns are more dangerous?
People are forbidden to carry TOY guns in city limits, but if they have a permit they are allowed to carry real guns in city limits?
Maybe they should have created a permit for a TOY gun. Then carrying them will be as legal as carrying a real gun with a permit.
Regardless, I do feel that I'm missing something here.

Oh my. I feel so much safer now!

These nanny-state politicians have "fixed another problem and protected everyone from the sight of a toy gun in public places."

It is amazing that they have nothing better to do with their time than work on silliness like this.

We need to elect some adults to run the city so these overly protective folks can do something other than raise our taxes and pass stupid laws that are not needed.

Wow, now we are safer from hurting each other with fake guns no worries though we are just sacrificing our rights and the rights of are children. It's not like those arnt important to protect or anything...

The article is not clear on whether the ban covers all toy guns or just those toy guns that fire a projectile (i.e. airsoft). DN should have done a better job of clarification.

I can undersatnd the law if were talking about projectiles, but cap guns and squirt guns - that's just another law on the books that will never be enforced. No self respecting officer of the law is going to throw little Jimmy in the whoscow for carrying his cap gun while ridding his stick horse throuth the park. If it is obvious that a proposed law will not be enforced, we shouldn't allow it to become a law.

A pellet rifle that can shoot 1500fps is dangerous. A water pistol 'toy gun' isn't. Where is the difference?

Why not just ban kids being kids?

Without clarification on what toy guns are illegal now this may be interesting to watch unfold. I bought my son a McDonalds happy meal on Monday and he was given a spy gun that shot two inch disk "pojectiles". My son is now a criminall at three, good one legislaters.