No More Nerf Guns or Cops-and-Robbers!: 'Infuriated' State Sen. Lays Down Law in His House After Zimmerman Verdict

A Democratic state senator—who argued earlier this year that stabbing a crazed gunman with “ballpoint pens” while he's reloading is better than carrying a guns—has declared he won't let his kids play cops-and-robbers with Nerf guns following the Zimmerman verdict.

Colorado Sen. Jessie Ulibarri wrote on his Facebook page that when his 15-year-old son asked Ulibarri if he could play cops-and-robbers, “[w]ith a dry mouth and wet eyes, I angrily told him that he could not go outside and play a simple childhood game."

Jessie Ulibarri (Credit: YouTube)

Ulibarri, a Hispanic, writes that “his stomach lurched and cold fingers of fear grasped at my throat” over the prospect of his son being racially profiled and hurt or worse if he's seen carrying a Nerf gun.

More from Ulibarri: “I hope [my son] knows that I am not angry with him, but I’m infuriated with the world we’re raising him in. I’m angry at myself for limiting my son and denying him his youth because I’m petrified of what may happen to him for LWB (living while brown). I’m angry that black and brown boys are always seen as a threat, and never the joyful kids I know them to be.”

The Daily Caller adds:

Ulibarri has expressed his concern about children and firearms in the past. During one of the many debates in the Colorado legislature over gun control, another lawmaker asked a witness how she would suggest defending herself during an armed attack at a school if guns were banned.

“I mean, what are you going to use?” he inquired. “A ballpoint pen?”

In response, Ulibarri said, “There are other ways to address violence and it doesn’t mean we have our kids exposed to a whole crossfire of multiple folks in a room shooting simultaneously.”

“Congressman [Gabrielle] Giffords’ life was saved and so many others’ when very valiant folks stood up to defend themselves and protect themselves,” he continued, “and they did it with ballpoint pens.”

(Credit: Facebook)

 

Here's audio of Ulibarri's "ballpoint pens" statement:

(H/T: Weasel Zippers)

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