I was little we played with toy guns all the time.
We even divided into teams and played World War II.
And one of the teams would be called the Japs.
My God if I was young today who knows where me and my friends would have ended up.
pretty sure mrs. prince harry already stamped her royal wedge and you can bet any of their kids will NOT be playing with any toy weapons. She already told harry no fox and hounds for you. Or dove, quail, goose, duck shoots either.
“And one of the teams would be called the Japs.”
Interesting. Down South the other team was always called Nazis.
I got my first gun set in 1951, 4 years old. I always liked being the Mexican Bandit. Don’t know why but maybe it was those crossed bandoliers. I would sling my gun belt over my shoulder and have fun.
Now the faint hearts have ruined everything starting in 1968 with the murder of Bobby Kennedy.
About 15 years ago I took a 6 year old grandson to Lexington,MA.
After doing the historical things we went into the gift shop——and they sold toy,wooden,muskets.
A young boy about my grandson’s age picked one up and asked his father to buy it for him-———and the man went totally NUTS!!!!!!! I felt so sorry for the kid.
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Yep. I had a Johnny 7 Assault Rifle.
We did that too, at recess back in the fifth grade, fighting our pretend battles in a grove of trees at the end of the school property. This was about 1972 and the Vietnam war protests were picking up. I could tell that some of the school staff were starting to look at putting an end to our fun so I got everyone together and put out the story that we were really reenacting Civil War battles so it was actually history education. The school staff thought that was splendid. They even set up chairs for the staff and other students to watch us reenact one of our “Civil War” battles. I was utterly bemused at their gullibility the whole time we “performed.”