Posted on 05/23/2016 2:19:13 PM PDT by PROCON
The gun-control lobby has a new target: Your children’s Lego sets.
A new "study" touted by libs decries the prevalence of weapons in the brick construction kits: I kid you not. The gun-grabbers have their panties in a twist over harmless fantasy play with teeny-tiny plastic parts.
LEGO building kits are becoming increasingly violent as toy manufacturers are engaged in an “arms race” to appeal to children, a New Zealand study says. Researchers at the University of Canterbury concluded from research that examined LEGO catalogues from 1973 to 2015 that weaponry is now included in 30 per cent of kits. In addition, the building block company has seen an increase in scenarios depicting violence in its toy catalogues over the years, the research found. “Currently around 40 per cent of all pages contain some type of violence – in particular, scenarios involving shooting and threatening behaviour”, according to the study.
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Can we start shooting these people? Please?
It’s clear there’s no limit to their insanity so do we really need to wait for them to march people into re-education camps before we fight back?
Not to mention that a whole lotta adults play with Legos.
Absolutely Love Michelle Malkin.
Yeah, and how about that five year old girl suspended from school for bringing in a bubble making gun. Imagine the damage it could have caused. I guess they’d also take the class to trauma counseling or something.
Its proof you can never appease a liberal.
Lego has always had a policy of not doing army temed sets just for this reason. They do other themes like space and star wars and other sets that would make no sense not to have weapons - star wars, western, ninjao, vikings/castle, etc.
It is hardly a pro-arms company. Often the items that can be used as guns were also pieces that could be used for other thing, such as small engines/rockets, or something else.
They are dangerous.
As my son says, a foot is defined as something you use to find lego pieces in the dark.
Ouch!
These poor victims of Hoplophobia need a safe place where they can learn to cope with their irrational fears. I hear that Caracus Venezuela has very strict gun control. If they can’t afford to travel over seas then south side Chicago, Baltimore and south east DC also have very strict gun control.
This is so idiotic. Before my son even had a toy gun, he was using sticks as guns and building guns out of lego blocks.
The real sadness these gun grabbers don,t give a s—t about the e ducation of the same kids.
Lego soldiers! Attack!!
Best toys ever made.
Oh Yeah!
In contrast, the Lego Brickumentary (documentary on legos) included a guy who makes more realistic lego weapons mostly for people creating re-enactment scenes. So you can buy Lego AK-47s, Civil War rifles, etc.
What’s next? A Ken doll without a ....?
Not a joke. The teacher was and the school system is but this really happened.
‘The Only Person Safe in a Gun-Free Zone Is the Criminal’, Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
Benjamin Franklin
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