Posted on 04/12/2015 2:38:34 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Check out this old toy gun commercial from the 1950s or '60s and compare it to how children who play with toy guns (or even their own food or fingers fashioned like a gun) are treated today. Do you think kids today are going to want to uphold their 2nd Amendment rights after they are terrorized and suspended or expelled by their schools for chewing a breakfast tart into an L-shape or being forced at age five to undergo a psych eval for bringing a Hello Kitty bubble gun to class?
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.
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And thank you for your service.
Amazingly, you can still buy caps and cap guns on Amazon and elsewhere:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cap+gun
http://www.tintoyarcade.com/cap-guns-and-caps?gclid=CJGO9aHq8MQCFZM9gQodsRwAGw
Voucher schools and home schooling. Field trip for the older kids would be gun range.
The feminization of America’s future warriors began in June 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered.
The news and entertainment media began an all out attack on everything masculine. It has never let up.
Only the movie industry escaped by claiming they would “police” themselves with a joke of a rating system. They began then to produce the most vile movies ever made.
Ah, caps. If your cap gun wasn’t working, you could sit on the sidewalk and hit the caps with a rock. Or you could ignite them with a flick of the thumbnail; they wouldn’t go bang, but you got a flash and a puff of that wonderful-smelling smoke. A session of this usually ended when the burning powder from a cap lodged under your thumbnail.
And yes, hitting one or more rolls with a sledgehammer made a grand bang. Probably what caused at least part of my tinnitus.
I remember, at the age of 12, walking down the main street of our little town in Pennsylvania carrying my grandfather's single shot .22, walking into the hardware store to buy .22 short ammo.
I told the hardware store owner that my grandfather said it was OK, and that was good enough for him. He knew I didn't dare lie about that, since he'd be sure to mention it to my grandfather at church that Sunday.
School was a lot different too; they closed on the first day of hunting season so the boys could go out with their Dads. I miss those times...
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I’ve collected/dealt in vintage cap guns for 20 years.There were westerns on TV almost every night of the week and each program seemed to have a toy gun named after it.Every kid had these toys,but our role models were all good guys who always won.Sadly the tables seemed to have turned and the bad guys usually come out ahead.It is the fond memories of an innocent youth that connects us to our toys and why baby boomers still look for these old treasures to connect to their past.
For a realistic-looking toy,google Mattel Dick Tracy snub nose .38.They stopped making these because people would use them to rob stores when you were not charged with armed robbery if the gun was a toy.Thats all changed.
I had cap guns at a very early age and then a BB gun followed by a Model 67 Winchester .22 bolt action SS Shot rifle when I was 10 or so. I would take it out and play with the squirrels and take them home for dinner. I still have the Winchester, it’s the most valuable firearm I own.
And yes, hitting one or more rolls with a sledgehammer made a grand bang. Probably what caused at least part of my tinnitus.
I remember the smell of burning thumbnail all too well. :-)
The social construct has drastically changed.
Today is a very violent place. I have not a solution, only concern.
The only law that is still strictly enforced is Mother Nature’s law. Don’t believe it? Go stick your hand into a pile of fire ants and you will soon see that there are no exceptions to her rule of law.
Crime is simply rampant today because of the basic fact that laws are not enforced as written.
PING!
Stick a fork in our country. We’re done.
Generational Disarmament Nanny State PING!
Thanks for the ping!
I’m going back, in a manner of speaking-—to my 70th high school reunion—in Beaumont, Texas.
There were 55 graduates in our class and there are only 8 remaining……..Most of them never left what was known as the “Golden Triangle” in Southeast Texas. We thought the odor from all the nearby refineries smelled like money, as most of our parents were employed by either the refineries or the Evadale paper mill on the other side of town.
I had to leave the area to realize that you couldn’t see air, as we lived with a lot of smoggy days—LOL!
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