A Cowgirl Needs Her Toy Pistols
I see that the liberals in Sacramento have now made it a crime for children to play with [realistic-looking] toy guns in public (Sept. 21). I grew up with Fanner 50s, Roy Rogers cap guns and BB guns. I taught my daughter how to shoot, first by using a BB gun in my backyard (which, I presume, would be a $100 fine under the new law). She is now the 2004 World Champion Cowgirl Mounted Shooter.
How many more children will miss an opportunity to participate in shooting sports and perhaps become a world champion shooter because some liberal thinks that kids playing with toy guns in a park or his or her neighborhood is dangerous?
Paul Harmon
Hesperia
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