Dean Weingarten  –  July 6, 2016 at The Truth About Guns

According to the Phoenix City Council, Prescott Pete’s Highfalutin Shooting Gallery is crimethink and cannot be allowed. The carny type of entertainment allows customers to shoot laser guns at targets that appear in the arcade. No targets appear on humans. It’s simple fun with toy guns. But even toy guns must not be allowed at the Phoenix event because guns.

Phoenix held the annual Fabulous Phoenix 4th on Independence Day, including 50 vendors. One, however, was excluded. From dcourier.com:

 

Despite putting in an application, Prescott Pete’s Highfalutin Shooting Gallery, a mobile game that uses lasers to set off random targets within an Old West saloon setting, will not be one of those vendors because it was deemed inappropriate for the event after a review from the event’s committee.

“Everyone agreed that you have a great exhibit, but the City of Phoenix is very conscious about the perception of violence given the current climate,” stated the rejection letter.

“It’s a pretty straight forward decision that this committee made,” said Gregg Bach, public information officer for the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department, which is in charge of organizing such events. “The planning committee was not comfortable with an exhibit/game that presented guns in a fun or glorified way.”

Note that the event committee agreed that the arcade was a “great exhibit”.  It’s to be inferred that they would have been allowed except for one thing: guns. Note also that these are not real guns. They’re toys that are electrically powered and tethered to the exhibit. They’re perfectly safe for all ages…. read more here