Halloween Killjoys Take Aim At Costume Guns

By Tom Knighton

For the last few years, the costume police have tried to dictate what people can and cannot wear for Halloween. Regardless of its roots, Halloween was long ago transformed into a fun holiday with few obligations on anyone. Then the costume police started telling people what they couldn’t wear, and it killed a lot of that fun for people.

Now, the costume police have come for the guns.

“We live in the South where hunting and fishing is more prevalent,” Amanda Hanig tells kticradion.com. “It’s our [Second] Amendment right to bear arms and to have a weapon. I don’t think anyone is arguing that . . . but if you’re going as a soldier as a 7-year-old, you don’t necessarily need to have an AK47 strapped to your back.” And so the couple wants parents to ban their kids from wearing “violent and bloody” costumes on Halloween.

“We’re not trying to tell people not to own guns,” Hanig said. “We’re just trying to say consider not sending your kids out with violence. I realize that it’s all in fun, but if we teach kids that guns are fun, what are we teaching them?”

We’re teaching them…that guns …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms