07/29/13
WBAL-TV reports that Zakia Mahasa, a master in Baltimore City’s juvenile courts, wants to crack down on the scourge of toy guns.
From the WBAL story:
“To me, doing what I do is not a question of if but when somebody is going to die. Some little child is going to die, or somebody is going to use that in the commission of a robbery. It looks that real,” Mahasa said.
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“Because there is so much gun violence, I abhor the situation. Water guns, any guns, I’m serious,” one resident said.
And the juvenile master wants state legislators to act.
“If the people who are selling them don’t care enough about our kids, I think we, as a community, should force them not to sell them,” Mahasa said.
Federal law requires that toy guns have an orange tip on the barrel. That had apparently been removed on the gun the deputy sheriff saw.
New York City requires toy guns to be a different color altogether — bright blue, red or green. Maryland has no such restriction.
From a bio of Mahasa:
Zakia Mahasa is an American Muslim judge who was appointed in 1997 to preside over Circuit Court cases of Baltimore city. Zakia obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland Law School in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently practices in the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court in Baltimore. She specializes in family law and has served as master in chancery—akin to a magistrate judge—since 1997. Zakia is a member of the National Association of Women Judges and in 2010 was honored with the Leadership in Law award.
Another bio indicates that she “became the first Muslim woman to preside over an American courtroom in 1997.”
This is Maryland, the same state that suspended a child for eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun, suspended another for making pow sounds while pointing his finger, and suspended two students for playing cops and robbers at recess..
Source: Quinton Report
Hat Tip: Front Line State
From the WBAL story:
“To me, doing what I do is not a question of if but when somebody is going to die. Some little child is going to die, or somebody is going to use that in the commission of a robbery. It looks that real,” Mahasa said.
[...]
“Because there is so much gun violence, I abhor the situation. Water guns, any guns, I’m serious,” one resident said.
And the juvenile master wants state legislators to act.
“If the people who are selling them don’t care enough about our kids, I think we, as a community, should force them not to sell them,” Mahasa said.
Federal law requires that toy guns have an orange tip on the barrel. That had apparently been removed on the gun the deputy sheriff saw.
New York City requires toy guns to be a different color altogether — bright blue, red or green. Maryland has no such restriction.
From a bio of Mahasa:
Zakia Mahasa is an American Muslim judge who was appointed in 1997 to preside over Circuit Court cases of Baltimore city. Zakia obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland Law School in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently practices in the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court in Baltimore. She specializes in family law and has served as master in chancery—akin to a magistrate judge—since 1997. Zakia is a member of the National Association of Women Judges and in 2010 was honored with the Leadership in Law award.
Another bio indicates that she “became the first Muslim woman to preside over an American courtroom in 1997.”
This is Maryland, the same state that suspended a child for eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun, suspended another for making pow sounds while pointing his finger, and suspended two students for playing cops and robbers at recess..
Source: Quinton Report
Hat Tip: Front Line State
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