Others not included here are a kid who was suspended for having gun wallpaper on his school computer, and A DEAF THREE-YEAR-OLD named Hunter whose school told his parents that when he spelled his own name in sign language, it looked too much like a gun, so they wanted the parents to change the sign for their child's name. (Yes. Apparently that actually happened.)
Meanwhile, as in the case of Tamir Rice, we have seen that children who play with toy guns are killed by our modern-day militarized police who shoot first and ask questions later...as if children are old enough to understand the consequences of their actions living in a total police state. We don't expect children to be old enough to vote or buy alcohol, but we expect them to realize if they play with a toy, the cops might gun them down without even giving them a chance to say a word. Tamir was playing with just such a toy in a park in Cincinnati and someone called the cops on him for it. The caller even alluded that the gun was fake twice and that Tamir was probably a kid. That didn't stop the police from showing up and shooting him dead literally within two seconds.
It's a far cry from that classic TV commercial for toy guns from back in the day...
(Full disclosure: this is NOT me NOR my YT channel; I don't have one. Just stole it hook, line and sinker because I grew-up in the 50s & 60s, played with these toys, and can't imagine our kids being subjected to the school-nazis of today.)
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A fascination with firearms is built into the male psyche. When my kid was barely a year old and in a high chair, he was already fashioning guns from a piece of sliced bread.
I am sure it’s a good commercial, but I cannot get it to open with this Windows 8.1 computer. Instead a yellow star with an exclamation point in it briefly flashes.
Government public schools have literally brainwashed most of the last 2+ generations.
This is very real, and one of the big factors contributing to the American decline.
Marx made some great toys.
But, you can tell its Mattel. Its Swell.
One of my favorite movies growing up was “War of The Worlds”. It’s a story of an inventor, fed up with a world filled with constant unremitting conflict. So he builds a time machine and travels to the future where he ASSumes that Mankind achieves “universal peace”, only to find Man’s descendents are total pacifists - and a food-source to a more aggressive species.
In a pivotal scene one of the Eloi sees the vital necessity to defend himself (a trait that has all but been bred out of Man) and struggles to make a fist. I saw this as more than simply a statement on Man’s genetic predisposition to self-defense but a rare admission of that inherent trait by the author, H.G. Wells - a man who abhorred violence and war.
It is possible that the left could succeed at emasculating American males. Of course that would leave us defenseless against our enemies and we would soon cease too exist (a proposition that the left does not seem to be adverse) and the world would be plunged into darkness.
Eventually (inevitably?) the true nature of Man would assert itself. I would add that this would be hastened by the fact that leftists would be long gone - the first victims of their own myopic notions.
My favorite toy gun was a snub nosed .38. Chrome with a black handle. It had spring loaded, hard plastic bullets. We had round caps that fit on the shell. The bullet would launch when struck. Great sound, and fairly accurate. Mine was confiscated a few days after Christmas after I broke a glass ornament on the Christmas tree.
It used to be we saw a little kid with a toy gun; today we see a GUN!
I had one of these - a Johnny Seven. It was seven different weapons in one.
I did a lot of imaginary damage with this sucker.
I had more toy guns than Bill Clinton has girlfriends.
Those days are gone with the wind.
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@2:28 in the vid, the kid with the gun-shaped Pop Tart who dared to say “bang bang”, if this kid claimed to be transgendered the school would’ve treated him like royalty and would not dare to mention a psych eval, let alone suspension.
Me and my friends would play “cowboys and Indians” (VERY unPC today) or shoot water pistols at each other. Our parents would strongly admonish us to never so much as aim our toy guns at strangers or the police, it was more a matter of good behavior and respect for our elders.