Posted on 01/13/2013 8:21:53 AM PST by BenLurkin
Local activists are calling for a ban on toy guns for kids. Do you agree? Yes, we have to change the gun-friendly climate that triggers so many shooting massacres
No, it's delusional to think that playing with toy guns leads to violence in later life
Vote
In the near future cell phones will have killing lasers, and people will have their forefingers amputated to replace with a very real and functioning finger-pistol. Or a freaking killer green laser in pinkies.
Absolutely correct - but consider the situation.
I grew up in a house and neighborhood full of guns. And no one went to school and shot the place up. Of course this was the 50s, and every house had these people called Mom and Dad. And there was this condition called discipline, and a thing called a belt. And society was based on order and family.
Now we have none of the above. Kids sit in a dark basement and play violent video games (inanimate objects) till they get amped up, get a gun (inanimate object) and go kill people.
Of course the liberals only want to talk about and blame one inanimate object. The subject of my post was that if it is going to take banning an inanimate object to fix the problem, it should be the one that started the problem in the first place.
Of course the real solution is to get families back to being families, and go back to an order and family based society. But for some reason that is apparently impossible.
Two reasons they must be banned.
1) Guns are bad
2) Guns are generally associated with boys
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Amazing how when it comes to sex, the left thinks we need to indoctrinate kids starting at 5, because they will be curious and ignorant. Yet with guns we need to ban even the fake ones. Liberal “logic”.
LMAO
No I really meant JC Higgins.
My mistake, I guess I am getting old.
Sounds like 1968 all over again. Toy guns were pulled from the market for a while after the murder of Bobby Kennedy.
Kids playing with them horrified the fainthearts. Even the GI JOE doll was modified.
Or J.C. Higgins
"The Simpsons" had an episode where the TV transmitters shut down and one great scene showed all the neighborhood kids stepping outside, rubbing their eyes, and seeing other kids on bikes or using a stick to roll a hoop down the street.
I slapped my knee over that one.
It won’t matter. My son was a toddler when he picked up his toy elephant and used the trunk as a gun barrel. He was allowed his first toy gun when in second or third grade from Bass Pro Shops. It is who he is. He is a Marine.
Here’s an old commercial that would get the libs panties in a twist.
Jonny Reb Cannon Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LICS2Gb5kZg
Here’s one starring Kurt Russell. It’s a radio that turns into a gun.
Mattel Agent Zero Radio and Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRDel5Q1PBA
We are raising a generation of children who never have lost (trophies all around), who have never had to try to accomplish anything, who never have lot a game and are told that they are "special" no matter what they do. Nothing is ever their fault, someone or something else "made" them do it. They have 100's of "friends" on Twitter, facebook or other non-social, social site. If they ever hear anything that they don't like - they just block or delete that comment. So, what happens when they don't get their way? They fly into a rage - because they know that they are entitled to whatever they want, when they want it. They have been told that no matter how mundane, how average they are - they are "special"; and now they are demanding that this coddling extend throughout childhood into the rest of their adult life. When they don't get their way - they lash out.
I personally blame Dr. Spock and his book which admonished parents to protect and allow a Child's childhood to be an unbridled sacrament to their "self-worth".
It's funny you mention that Bozo. I mark the publishing of his book (1946) as the point at which things started going to hell in a hand basket in society!!
I remember my parents being given one of his books as some kind of a prize back in the early 1950’s I also remember my dad sitting in the living room reading it, and later seeing it in the trashcan. Which was an appropriate place for it.
The most ironic thing is that this book was touted to parents as an ‘enlightened’ way to raise kids. Of course those same parents were part of a generation that survived the great depression, won World War II, and built the largest free market economy in the world.
And that results of the great Doctor Spock's ‘enlightenment’? Complete and total failure, without a single redeeming quality.
I agree with that statement. In fact, I would posit that the surest way to promote a healthy attitude about guns in children, is to allow (maybe even encourage) them to play with toy guns. Let them work any violent tendencies out of their systems through fantasy play and make-believe.
That's my personal experience, having grown up in the 50s and 60s. My brothers and I played war games with toy guns, etc., until we were all played out. By the time we were men, none of us had any fixation remaining on guns or violence.
On the flip side, all those years of being allowed to pretend with toy guns, made me comfortable with the base concept of firearms. When I finally made my first adult purchase of a gun, it felt like an old friend in my hand.
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