Buffalo: Anti-Gun Fanatics Launch Buyback Program Targeting Nerf Guns…
Keeping the streets safe from the scourge of foam bullets.
(Buffalo News) — This was a different kind of gun buyback program.
The guns being bought back from the streets weren’t 9 mm handguns or Glocks. Instead, they were Nerf guns or toy pistols.
And they weren’t being bought with cash. This time, the currency was pizza slices, notebooks and dress shirts.
The FATHERS group and Bona Pizza teamed up Monday for a buyback aimed at younger teens and preteens at the pizzeria at Bailey and Kensington avenues.
The idea was simple: Don’t let kids get used to firing weapons, even if they’re toys.
“It makes them too comfortable, holding that gun,” said Leonard Lane, president of Fathers Armed Together to Help, Educate, Restore and Save. “Then there’s no fear holding the real gun when they get older. We want to put that fear back into our children, teaching them what guns can do, how they affect their community.”
“A toy gun today, a real gun tomorrow,” said Charles Cina, owner of Bona Pizza. “That’s what we want to stop.”
So kids such as Tarence Callaham, 14, a Buffalo ninth-grader, brought in his green and orange Nerf gun. In return, Tarence got a piece of pepperoni pizza, a snazzy dress shirt and the chance to shoot some hoops in the pizzeria parking lot.
“I learned that you shouldn’t have guns and stuff,” Tarence said. “It gives kids an education not to play with bad things.”
Tynell Ruffins, 9, a fourth-grader at Community Charter School, got a bigger haul in return for his orange and black Nerf gun. He got the pizza, a soft drink, a notebook, a dress shirt and a Marvel Heroes folder.
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And my 6 year old screams
You’ll get my Nerf gun from MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!!
FUCK
FUCK MY LIFE, what next?
Three words re the clever acronym:
Oh puh leeze
“Upon leaving the pizzeria, young Tarence Callaham was robbed at gunpoint of his snazzy new shirt.”
Tarence, Tynell…. yeah, we know what kind of “community” Buffalo is.
Nerf Haters.
Mooochelle says; “Bull shit…..I say we trad’em lettuce and green beans for the nerf gun”.
Well, my 11 year old is obviously on the path to becoming a mass murderer. He has quite a collection of Nerf weapons, including one that shoots 24 darts in a row. Oh the horror!
On a serious note, this has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. Unreal.
“….to shoot some hoops…”
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OMG! Were there any survivors?
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The left is always in the business of protecting us from us.
Amazing how much better they think they are.
I’m surprised they let the kids eat pizza. Why wouldn’t they give them salad instead?
This is just stupid…. I thought we were the land of the free? Nope, now we’re the land of the controlling Liberal Progressive.
What a joke we have become.
It’s a toy .. A fucking toy.
I’m going out today and buying my son 10 different Nerf guns today.
Maybe we could start selling them on the black market for those poor kids in New York.
My 5 year old grandson quickly outgrew his neft gun when his grandpa introduced him to my 22 rifle that will some day be his. This story burns my azz
So I’m guessing paint ball guns are out too?
When did New York become the Iran of the West?
Fun sprits get out!!!!
You’ve got to be kidding me…
I want my kids to know how to handle weapons the right way and be able to hunt, fish, shoot traps, whatever they’re bent to.
This liberal schtick just doesn’t work; we tried it with our first kid back in the ninties, when we were liberals, and the kids either painted, drew, carved, or pretended EVERYTHING in creation was a “gun”. Then he went on to swords, knives, whatever. Even if their peers are fed the same shit, they come up with it themselves because it’s empowering for them.
Teach a child the way he should go. I’m clinging to my guns and bible, thanks very much.
They need to be able to do more harm to a would-be attacker than that attacker could ever do to them, with or without firearms. Break their bones or lead them to Christ, but they won’t be victims…
Meanwhile in the inbred, goat screwing middle east… little 5 year old Muhamed Jihad is taught how to hard wire a suicide vest via a terrorist coloring book.
Yes, while the streets of Buffalo are full of real guns, not legal owners but criminals. You want to take away the only protection the children have left.
Ohhhh the irony of it all.
LMFAO
Thus making it all the more easier for the Muslims to take over America once the population numbers swing in their favor.
How long did it take to figure out that stupid acronym, Lenny?
More stupid ideas from these brainless little pansies who want all boys to play with stupid pink monkey dolls this group of liberal pansies should change their names to FAT-HEADS becuase their all stupid little mindless wackos
Fathers Armed Together to Help, Educate, Restore and Save…
Something tells me these guys would not like me.
I wonder what these guys would think when every weekend my entire family including 10 year old son, 8 year old daughter, the wife, brother in law and father in law go out target and skeet shooting? At least my kids will know the proper and safe handling of a firearm and know that they’re not toys.
Remove the mystery and teach them to understand and respect firearms.
Oh and a Nerf gun for a slice of pizza and a dress shirt?…..future liberal economics at work.
Jebus wept.
@Gary In Canada
Dont joke. I took 7 stiches in my dot com days from one of these bad boys.
They tried to outlaw bbguns and airsoft here in CA
We should do a buy back of Ben and Jerrys
Am I crazy in saying you shouldn’t fear a gun (it’s an inanimate object, incapable of action on its own), but respecting it is good? What better way to respect it than to learn about it? Removing anything that even looks like a gun or can be held like a gun is the exact opposite of education.
Hey! I bought those for my two girls this past Christmas! We had a blast! (No pun intended.)
So the libTARDS teach fake Americans not to touch guns and to hide in fear, and the islamos give real guns and ammo to their little tykes and tell them to kill all infidels. What a plan!
At 14, the kid should be making sure his rifle is sighted in for deer season, not stealing Nerf guns from the toddlers next door to trade for pizza.
I’ll bet Holder is buying up all of the Nerf guns and is shipping them to Mexican Cartels.
“I learned that you shouldn’t have guns and stuff,” Tarence said. “It gives kids an education not to play with bad things.”
Please Tarance. Do society a favor. Please get a big, pink tattoo of a p*ssy on your forehead. Let the thugs know ahead of time who to punk.
BOYCOTT BONA PIZZA
F.A.R.T.S.
Fathers Armed with Remington, Taurus, and Sig.
Cover your arse!
So teach the kids to use the real thing as soon as they’re strong enough to hold it properly.
“You’ll shoot your eye out!”
BB and pellet guns will be outlawed or ATF-registered… 3.. 2.. 1..
“Then there’s no fear holding the real gun when they get older. We want to put that fear back into our children, teaching them what guns can do, how they affect their community.”
I never feared guns. I was taught to respect them. At a very young age, my father taught me how to use them, how to safely handle them, etc. Basic gun etiquette. And I’ll do the same with my son.
Horrors – they – let – them – SHOOT – hoops!
I can’t wait to take my grandkids out to the range. I have been having a debate with myself on whether to get the boy a BB gun or just go to a .22 instead as a starter.
And we have had the most hilarious nerf battles inside the house.
What a wonderful head in the sand approach. Guns are a problem so we will keep them mysterious and taboo. That should solve everything. Why bother to actually get to know the subject matter you are against? God damn hippies.
Saying toy guns create murderers is like saying masturbation creates rapists.
Great. At least they will be well fed, well dressed SLAVES
And realy stupid liberal movies like ROBIN WILLIAMS crappy movie TOYS one of the all time worst movies ever
When I was a kid I kept my toy guns in an old foot locker, Per My dads orders Everything squared away. All toy gear on a shelf. If I showed I was Responsible. I got my first .22 when I was 9 got my first 12 gage ( brand new mossburg 500 ) at 13. at 45 I got his entire collection. I wasn`t taught to be afraid. My grandmother taught me that, when she talked about her clildhood in russia running from the Blosheviks after they shot my greatgrand father running for their lives. starving getting handouts from kind strangers Sorry I don`t need some Merto sexual Faggot teaching my kids to be afraid. I will teach them how to shoot. how and to make the other guy afraid
They want to put fear into children. That tells me all I need to know about these Zealots.
Children from properly run gun-owning homes almost never get into gun accidents. They are taught the truth about guns early, and allowed to handle them in controlled situations. The forbidden fruit of the hidden gun is destroyed, and what is left behind is a wise child who knows to get an adult instead of handling the mysterious gun themselves.
OMG! Why didn’t they just trade them for transgendered Barbie dolls….
This is just too much. What is this country becoming?
The world’s so dangerous that we really need to just play it safe and outlaw everything.
And I mean everything. We simply can’t take any chances.
Then, if we really feel we really, really need something – and we can justify it – we can ask the government for special permission or a license to have it.
If it saves even one life, it’s worth it, no matter how many lives it costs.
What is so hard for these people to understand, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall NOT be infringed. Liberals want everyone to believe they are so smart, yet they just cannot grasp any of the Bill of Rights. To them, no means no, unless that no is being said to the government.
My new motto will be:
If it saves even one life, it’s worth it, no matter how many lives it costs.
I hope all the fathers that belong to F.A.T.H.E.R.S. get the living shit beat out of them buy nerf wielding thugs. And are then denied by gunshops and sporting goods stores from buying a firearm to protect themselves. Maybe a free ride to the inner city after a good ass whippin about midnight would make them appreciate a little security as they walk home bruised, beaten and scared to death. Because people like this [fathers] embolden criminals and weaken the society. They are making their kids damn sissies little sissie boys. Just think children in Africa and other countries that have warrior societies send their kids at puberty out to the bush to complete a task or 2 that is just after they are circumsized. It is call “the right of passage” from child to man. The Children of F.A.T.H.E.R.S. and the children they contaminate are weakening our society their children my grow up to be perverts that want to fondle little children or become psychopaths because they were never allowed to just be kids, play cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, Army, and of course Ball, better take their skates away they have blades that could be used as weapons. No pencils they can be used to put an eye out or stick in another kids ear, don’t let your teenage kid have a car He may run down a pedestrian standing on the curb or walking in a cross walk. But the point is just because children play with toy guns doesn’t they will become murders. On the other hand they will probably become normal, happy well adjusted young men and women, girls like to play with toy guns too! Maybe the children should be removed from the homes of F.A.T.H.E.R.S because the fathers are abusing the children and depriving them of their “RIGHT” to just be Kids! What’s next are these retards going to kill their own kids to prevent them from becoming homocidal Murderers. Because they can see into the future. Better get the kids so they can be saved from their fathers. OMG!!! Call Mayor Bloomberg He’ll save the kids. I bet these poor children still wet the bed because of the way their fathers treat them. But in all sincerity, you may deprive your child today of his childhood and you may become his victim! Fathers, better rethink your outragious behavior! You are an Alpha predator not a father. My Dad bought me my first .22 at six. I have firearms now and I assure you I am not crazy and have never committed a crime of anykind especially a crime with a firearm! You people disgust me! Are you also Athiests?
The best way to teach kids about guns, is to teach kids about guns.