Originally posted by Fishy
Still what's the difference between walking into a bank with that gun or a rael gun if you don't intent on killing anybody? You can still commit the crime even if your gun is fake.
And I'm sure most of us would be traumatised if held at gunpoint, believing that the gun was real. The trauma people cause in bank robberies is life changing. Some people can't get over it becasue its such a terrifying experience. The power that having a gun or something that others perceive to be a gun is huge.
Originally posted by Secretus
The thing is, no one dies. Except maybe the moron with the fake gun. So even if they ban toy guns, maybe bb guns next or pellet guns? How about super soaker's?
Because even if you could change those things to weapons nobody would believe they are and it wouldn't work, and if they would then they are idiots.
Now of course the chance exists that you would turn such a thing into a weapon and use it to kill people, but you could just as well buy a gun then, a hell of a lot easier.