BB guns were better, and by the time I was 10 or 11, if I wanted to “play with guns,” I took a .22 rifle and a box of shells out into the woods.
Posted on 03/27/2023 8:51:53 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Yep. This article is a prime example of the catastrophic failure of the education system and parenting.
The authors are adult children and lack critical thinking skills.
The author is saying “Hi, I wrote this and I am a fag.”
“The Conversation”
A candy store lineup for left side Bell Curve progs...
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How about “The STFU because YES, they are making the world sick?”
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BB guns were better, and by the time I was 10 or 11, if I wanted to “play with guns,” I took a .22 rifle and a box of shells out into the woods.
Assault phaser.
I got a .22 for my 15th birthday but before that had a pretty powerful BB/pellet gun. A Crosman Powermaster.
I was also told not to point any gun, real or toy, at anyone and specifically warned that that could get me shot.
Not a fan of any of the airsoft or paintball type LARPing that entail shooting other people. Watching youtube vids of millennials having meltdowns and going postal on each other is kind of amusing, though.
I had that M1 carbine air rifle. The one you cock by pushing the barrel straight back? Daisy I think but I’m not sure. It looked good but it was pretty weak.
I also had (still have) a Marksman BB/pellet pistol that looks like a 1911 .45.
I was out with a friend with our BB rifles in the fields around the RR tracks just hunting and shooting at whatever. I had the Marksman in a holster my belt. A railroad guy (inspector?) stopped us to ask what we were doing and give us the “railroad tracks are dangerous” spiel or something.
He noticed that .45 lookalike and his eyes got real wide. “Is that real?” he asked. I couldn’t believe how startled he was. We were 13 or 14 I’d guess but I thought “why shouldn’t it be?” After all, I knew how to handle a gun and we might be approached by some sketchy guy. Like him. lol
I remember having one of those. We carried out disc-shooter battles in the classroom during noon hour. Of course we’d be crucified for that today.
A sad article I read from a woman’s magazine the early years of “women’s liberation” and Ms Magazine brainwashing.
A woman recalled forcing her little son to play with toys that didn’t reflect the patriarchal societal paradigm.
“But no matter what I did he’d find a way to root around in his toy chest until he found where I hid his ball or his soldier and gun toys at the bottom. I felt like giving up shaping him.
So sad for those boys.
Yeah. I had the 1911 pistol. Wore the seal out. I feel a little better knowing the M-1 was underpowered.
When I was a kid we used our hands...like a pistol.
I was out in the woods last weekend with a friend’s two little girls (I’m a guy). People have placed gnomes and other decorations in the area and they were excited to find them and would exclaim “Another one!” and run to see it.
At one point I saw a bunch of branches made into a lean-too and told them about the cool fort. They didn’t even give it a glance as they searched for more gnomes.
Their dad came down to let us know dinner was ready. As we were walking back up he said “Hey - did you see that cool fort over there?”
When I was growing up, practically every kid had toy guns (cap pistols? oh, hellyeah!) and we all played “army” or Cops ‘n Robbers or Cowboys and Indians. And my generation grew up to be far less predisposed to violence than these kids today.
Guns don’t make kids violent any more than spoons make Rosie O’Donnell a lard-ass.
Twenty or thirty years ago when all this crap was bustin’ loose, I saw a program trying to determine if toys the kids were given to play with determined their gender. It was a real hoot. They had two boys in a room and left them there to be observed. The only toys in the room were two Barbies. The boys picked them up and started to sword fight (fencing) with them. ROTFL.
Kid from the corner: "Do you want to play guns?"
"We're not allowed to play guns.
"Oh." Silence. "Well, do you want to play knives?"
"OK!"
Remember the six year old who was arrested for biting his chicken nugget into the shape of a gun? Apparently, that kid was worse than Hitler.
Ditto. My fav was my toy machine gun like Sarge from Combat!
AND no one mistook them for REAL GUNZ!
The author is a simpering putz.
In my house both growing up and for my son, we did not play with guns, ever. We have real guns that are not toys. We feel that toys and sports are the development ground for life; so pointing/shooting a toy gun at a person is never permitted.
I think it worked out okay as my son, as a teen, became a 2x all-American in shotgun.
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