Program teaches dangers of firearms

Pawtucket Times ^ | 04/01/2005 | David Casey

[El Gato]

while showing them fun and practical alternatives to "violent" and "competitive" play

Why don't they just hand out the magic brownies and keep the kids totally zonked out, they'll be easier to handle that way.

[El Gato]

Why don't they ever use the Abort-O-Matic, a wacky toy-baby-crushing device?

I'm sure that crowd would, so don't give them any ideas.

[El Gato]

This sounds like a wonderful event for a FReeper with an NRA tee-shirt, a very large and scary-looking SuperSoaker, and a good sense of humor.

Even if it wasn't at a school, the FReeper would probably be arrested, charged with a felony, probably assault, convicted and so lose their RKBA forever

[Mulder]

Future sheep.

[Eastbound]

Sore losers always want to change the rules of the game. It's their superiority complex.

[Eastbound]

(Stolen, but I ferget where.)

[absalom01]

It's amazing to me the way that the PC set have pathologized male behavior. If a little boy acts like, well, a little boy, the school wants to drug him (ritalin), and turn him into a little zombie.
No toy guns? What happens is kids will bite a piece of bread into the shape of a pistol (just watch -- it must be instinct), and then the teacher (always female) or mother will make the kid feel miserable and "bad" for using his God-given creativity.
Sick.

[Certified Horticulturist]

Use purple ink, right? Bwahahahaha!

[Gilbo_3]

"What better way to get kids to realize the repercussions of real-life violence and get them thinking of ways to re-think how they see the world and how they play then by offering them a free basketball,"

Three letter reply...N-B-A

My staff and I have been working on initiatives to encourage non-competitive play, games where everybody is a winner and no one in singled out

Well thats so special, unlike when we played 'WAR' and if you got shot you 'died' and had to sit around and wait for the rest of the guys to get killed so you could play again.

BTW when did NBA rules change so that there isnt a 'winner' and nobody [ie short white guys ] is singled 'out' ???

[Copernicus]

The Rhode Island Doubledutch League will be teaching kids the lost art of jumping rope, one of many non-violent, non-competitive activities Garcia said he would like to see catch on.

This is genuinely beyond parody.

It would take about five seconds to compose a highlight video of every fictional and real life boxer jumping rope.

There is at least one scene in every Rocky Movie, and every title fight dating back to the beginning of the 20th century has newreel footage or still shots of the contestants jumping rope in training camp.

Last I heard Boxing was considered a reasonably competitive sport.

Best regards,