As long as there are dollar stores in this country, the dainty purple watergun menace will never end. And I've seen some pretty darn aggressive checker-playing. These schools send kids out onto a field in helmets and pads or with wooden or aluminum clubs and encourage them to "kill the other team"?
Guns are not toys! I raised 4 kids, and did not allow them to play with toy guns, however, they were incouraged to join me in shooting REAL guns, starting about age 7. Kids need to be taught the safe handling of real guns, and these toys just ain't gettin it done. Now I'm honored in doing the same with my grandkids. By the way, their parents don't let them play with toy guns either.
Ain't no one size fits all and to each his own. Some of us were perfectly fine growing up with toy guns, and perfectly competent raising children with same--as well as getting our kids shooting at an early age and teaching them there is a difference.
What's going on in this story is totem-burning and ignorance/fear-spreading to serve an agenda. And that agenda hardly tolerates you teaching your kids and grandkids how to do anything but depend on them for everything.
Anon, I played army and cowboys and indians when I was a kid. I pointed my toy guns at people all the time. I have never pointed my real guns at anyone, nor shot anyone with them. Funny, how I could tell the difference.
As long as there are dollar stores in this country, the dainty purple watergun menace will never end.
ReplyDeleteAnd I've seen some pretty darn aggressive checker-playing.
These schools send kids out onto a field in helmets and pads or with wooden or aluminum clubs and encourage them to "kill the other team"?
Guns are not toys! I raised 4 kids, and did not allow them to play with toy guns, however, they were incouraged to join me in shooting REAL guns, starting about age 7. Kids need to be taught the safe handling of real guns, and these toys just ain't gettin it done. Now I'm honored in doing the same with my grandkids. By the way, their parents don't let them play with toy guns either.
ReplyDeleteTrue--guns aren't toys. But toy guns are.
ReplyDeleteAin't no one size fits all and to each his own. Some of us were perfectly fine growing up with toy guns, and perfectly competent raising children with same--as well as getting our kids shooting at an early age and teaching them there is a difference.
What's going on in this story is totem-burning and ignorance/fear-spreading to serve an agenda. And that agenda hardly tolerates you teaching your kids and grandkids how to do anything but depend on them for everything.
Anon, I played army and cowboys and indians when I was a kid. I pointed my toy guns at people all the time. I have never pointed my real guns at anyone, nor shot anyone with them. Funny, how I could tell the difference.
ReplyDeleteDavid's right. This is an indoctrination program.