Posted on 05/20/2017 9:19:17 AM PDT by PROCON
My mom was pretty relaxed during our childhood and only had a few nonnegotiable, never ever going to change, concrete rules. Her biggest: no water guns.
This water gun ban had nothing to do with water shooting toys in general (though with four kids running around it would've made sense that she didn't want the water wars) and everything to do with her firm belief that guns are not toys. We still had all of the same Summer fun, but with water squirters that didn't look like deadly weapons and never trivialized this important topic. We didn't make childhood memories with an object inspired by something that kills kids daily.
We didn't have a gun in our home, but I think my mom's passionate stance on water guns is even more important for those who do. A gun is a serious and powerful object that can permanently destroy lives. The sooner people start taking this topic seriously, the safer our children will be.
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Toy trains
Teddy bears
Better idea ban stupid
Her irrational fear of guns, real or harmless toys, will only mystify guns in the eyes of her children. This is a dangerous mindset,because kids will be unable to appreciate the lethal qualities of real gun.
What she should do is train her kids in the safe handling of firearms,and make them practice with them until they’re bored with them. This will remove the mystery of firearms and instill a healthy respect for them in her kids.
The gun shot his eye out
Lauren is a WUSS!
Nobody batted an eye in those days if a kid was walking around with one.
I did learn some bad habits at that early age. Such as pointing that gun directly at another person. I think kids should be taught at an early age never to point a real looking gun at another person. Water guns are a different story however as they are obviously just toys and pointing at people is the whole point.
When I got to Marine boot camp, they straightened me out real quick about how to properly handle guns.
We played cowboys and native americans......
Total bullshit.
A complete denial and deflection from other, more serious lapses in parenting.
Denial.
Denial.
We raised three children, currently very independent professional and successful sober adults. Not a snowflake among them. But excellent hand eye coordination and reactions among them all.
That would include the most successful of the bunch, a daughter, who not only owned several water "guns" (that dreaded word again) a Red Ryder bb rifle and pistol, and another pistol which fired plastic "bullets" for indoor use.
And not a single anger-issues loser or mass murderer among them.
Only one son owns a firearm, which he mastered for a few years, in the sport of recreational shooting competition.
Parental, serious introspection is a sorely missed and lost parental skill... eschewed by the clueless ignorant.
Did she let her kids fill small balloons with water and throw them (water grenade, water bomb)?
She’s probably great at summer parties.
We did have a sign outside of our home...
My mother was only raped and murdered one time.
I grew up with just about every type of “cap” pistol ever made or sold, got my first .22 rifle when I was 7 years old, shot everything from squirrels to moose, caribou, elk, deer, bear, you name it and I have to this day (I’m 4 months short of being 80 years old) NEVER shot anyone. How is that even possible some liberal might ask. Well, up front, I was taught from an early age the difference between toys and real “tools” meaning guns. My dad and mother BOTH hunted wild game and they never shot anyone either BECAUSE they too were taught what REAL guns are for. The problem is liberals need educating and I see that as a VERY DAUNTING task for anyone, the dummies will never understand because they refuse to learn. Personally, I think firearm training SHOULD BE taught in ever school.
My favorite version is by John Gary. The guy had a three-octave range.
In saner times, why would literally dozens of the most loved singers of the last 60 years record such disgusting lyrics?
Different versions of the awful lyrics
Mentally balanced adults would deem this a sad non-issue.
I couldn’t have survived childhood without my trusty six-gun cap pistols and the holsters my Dad handmade for them. Same for water, rubber band, and BB guns. We did so much target practice that I’m convinced it’s why I qualified Expert in pistol and rifle in the service (plus the great training of our instructors).
In HS, the Rifle Team would carry their firearms with them from class to class on practice and competition days. The cases were too big to fit in the lockers, and the range was off campus. Nobody thought a thing about it.
Oh, and every self-respecting male had a pocket knife on his person when he left the house.
It’s the individual, not the inanimate object, that is the problem...but Stalinist knotheads don’t understand that...or maybe they do.
My Mom bought me squirt-guns, cap-guns, toy hand-gernades and once a machine gun that looked like a M-1919 tripod and all. But her generation had just finished fighting WWII and Korea. She had lost a brother and a brother in-law in the Pacific and my oldest brother was in Korea. She knew we had to learn how to fight and learn early.
Geez, back in the late 50s when I was 10 we made what would be called IEDs out of whiskey pint bottles left by Bowery derelicts, dry ice from the Good Humor guy in Stuyvesant Square Park and water from the park fountain. Guess we would be doing 18 months in juvie at least, in this day and age.
Let’s send her kids some yard darts.
Great memories and I still have that cap smell in my head.
We were so adept at playing war around Gramercy Park that by the time we were 12 we could probably have taught a course on urban warfare.
A local flea market was selling battery operated water guns that looked just like UZIs and MAC10s. Needless to say a bunch of us officers and DIs bought them.
For the next several Saturdays, there were "drive-bys" and "hits." On one occasion, I was standing by the pull-up bars watching the recruits do pull-ups when a couple of DIs did a "drive-by" on me. Unknowing to us, a MP in a car was one road over and only saw the UZI. Lights and siren blazing he roared over. After he saw what were were doing, he asked for where we got them from, so he and his friends could buy some.
Even our battalion commander thought they were fun (He borrowed mine and did a "hit" on the battalion executive officer). Yes, the world has turned upside down.
My father was a NRA instructor and formed a high school rifle team. He and a couple of fathers would take the team on weekend camping trips coupled with some serious range work with the rifles. My first and only snipe hunt. nuf said.
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