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Posted on 01/13/2013 8:21:53 AM PST by BenLurkin

Local activists are calling for a ban on toy guns for kids. Do you agree? Yes, we have to change the gun-friendly climate that triggers so many shooting massacres

No, it's delusional to think that playing with toy guns leads to violence in later life

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1 posted on 01/13/2013 8:22:00 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

How about a ban on kids for liberals?


2 posted on 01/13/2013 8:30:59 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: BenLurkin

No, it’s delusional to think that playing with toy guns leads to violence in later life 68.03%

Yes, we have to change the gun-friendly climate that triggers so many shooting massacres 31.97%


3 posted on 01/13/2013 8:32:15 AM PST by mark3681
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To: BenLurkin

how about a ban on children’s toy guns in exchange for removing all governmental restrictions, controls, oversight, paperwork, bureaucracy, regulations, and licensing from real guns for adults?


4 posted on 01/13/2013 8:33:27 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: BenLurkin

done


5 posted on 01/13/2013 8:37:12 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: BenLurkin

Bah! I “killed” thousands of injuns with my cap guns in the 1960’s. Toys don’t equate to the real thing. I haven’t killed anyone (commies) - yet.


6 posted on 01/13/2013 8:38:55 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Hardraade

I never gave my boys toy guns.

I gave them real ones.

So far, they’ve only made some ducks, pheasants, deer and rabbits very unhappy.

(Ruined their whole day, they did.)


7 posted on 01/13/2013 8:39:10 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: BenLurkin

I got a house full of kids and several guns. Some of the kids also play with toy guns. Never had an issue with them being curious about the real guns. I really only have one shooter so far and she is 10. Something about them being around guns their whole life takes the curiosity right out of them.


8 posted on 01/13/2013 8:47:00 AM PST by pennyfarmer (Your socialist beat our liberal AGAIN.)
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To: BenLurkin

“No, it’s delusional to think that playing with toy guns leads to violence in later life”

It is not delusional to think that playing with realistic video games leads to violence later in life - it is a fact.

Think not, ask the real experts. Ask the military what percentage of their troops fired their weapon the first time they were in combat during Viet Nam. Then ask what percentage fired their weapon the first time they were in combat during Desert Storm. Then ask where billions of dollars has gone during the last twenty years.

Yep, realistic video games. And they work. Of course the military has troops spend a couple of hours playing the game for every 6 or more hours they spend in classrooms and training. One type of training removes the inhibition to shoot at another human being, and the other type of training teaches when it IS permissible to shoot at another human being.

Of course a kid a home (like the most recent one) only engages in one kind of training.

But you say to yourself, “wait, if this is the cause, why aren’t zero and plugs after the gaming industry.” Just look at who EA and the other big game companies contribute to.

Never mind, the problem is just guns.


9 posted on 01/13/2013 8:53:39 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: TexasRepublic

What shuld be banned for kids is video games.

Get them outside riding stick horses and playing cowboys and indians. Get a new Cowboy hero like Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy instead of Kid Rock and Iced T.

My Hopalong Cassidy cap gun never caused me to kill anyone.
Neither did my Red Ryder BB gun, which I still have.It still shoots too although it isn’t quite as strong as it once was. I got my first shotgun from Sears Roebuch, A JC Whitney pump shotgun at 14, paid for it myself with the money I got from collecting ground leaves on the family
tobacco farm. Until then I used my Dad’s old double barrel that always sat in the corner of the sitting room.


10 posted on 01/13/2013 8:54:53 AM PST by Venturer
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To: BenLurkin

Remember the ban on cartoons with violence? They took and edited all the violence out of Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and the Looney Tunes gang.

Then these same “do-gooders” gave us Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles and the Power Rangers.

Other than ruining a perfectly entertaining cartoon classic; I don’t see that it accomplished anything good.


11 posted on 01/13/2013 8:56:17 AM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: BenLurkin

At 1151ET, prepping for today’s games...

No, it’s delusional to think that playing with toy guns leads to violence in later life 70.03%

Yes, we have to change the gun-friendly climate that triggers so many shooting massacres 29.97%

Amazing that so many on the left continue to posit that government interference is an effective substitute for proper parenting. It all starts with the family.


12 posted on 01/13/2013 8:59:35 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Still seeking change.)
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To: Venturer
A JC Whitney pump shotgun at 14

Do you mean JC Penny?

13 posted on 01/13/2013 9:01:14 AM PST by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
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To: I cannot think of a name

The “games” the troops “play” in training, are designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of strategies. Simply stated, it’s easier to have them try “every man for themselves” and get wiped out (with accompanying push-ups); and then have them do the same re-enactment using troop maneuvers that they have been taught (defeating the foe, with minimal loss of life).

Any game, with a mentally unstable individual, can cause problems. I believe we have had a few individuals commit suicide over a game of Monopoly. You can’t stop an insane person from doing insane things - blaming an inanimate object simply places the responsibility that an individual should bear, onto an object.

Mentally competent individuals realize that a video game is nothing more than fantasy. Whether it’s Star Wars and defeating the Empire (crushing the Rebels), Doom and destroying the demonic horde, Halo and defeating the alien invaders, or combat based.

Or, we could blame inanimate objects and start burning books again.


14 posted on 01/13/2013 9:04:07 AM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: BenLurkin

Have a former friend who refused to have toy guns in her house for her son.....so (she actually told me)....he would shape pieces of his bread at mealtime into guns and shoot them at his sister.


15 posted on 01/13/2013 9:16:14 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: TexasRepublic

Bah! I “killed” thousands of injuns with my cap guns

You brag about killing thousands????!!!!/s
I no longer allow my grandchildren more than 1 strip of caps (10 caps) at a time. I said “you can’t kill more than 10 indians, that’s final.” /s

So far no withdrawal symptons.


16 posted on 01/13/2013 9:19:14 AM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: BenLurkin

Who are these “activists”? Expose them. I bet it is one or two people attached to Soros or Open Society Foundation.


17 posted on 01/13/2013 9:22:13 AM PST by Clock King
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To: BenLurkin
I'm going to vote yes, ban them. I have a nefarious reason: If they ever get banned, liberals will LOSE IT when they discover male children using sticks, pencils, potatoes, rolls of tape, even thier FINGERS, as 'guns'.

I want liberals to lose it.

18 posted on 01/13/2013 9:22:32 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s not about toy guns. It’s about teaching kids that guns are a bad thought.


19 posted on 01/13/2013 9:34:43 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: Venturer

“My Hopalong Cassidy cap gun never caused me to kill anyone.”

Well, well..... MY dual Holster Annie Oakley, Mother of Pearl handle capgun pistols were one of my favorite toys ever! My brothers and I shot at each other, shot at the neighbor kids from the farm down the road. Woo Hoo... best thing ever was my mom or dad coming home with new rolls of caps for us to fire off. ahhhhhh sweet memories from a much more pleasant time - the 50’s. I’ll check again with all my broethers, but as far as I know none of us ever shot anyone! PS: AND I loved the three stooges, too. How about Bugs Bunnie - oh so violent. NOT. WE knew the difference between “pretend and real”. (that was for those of you in Rio Linda”


20 posted on 01/13/2013 9:37:16 AM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor (This great nation has chosen socialism over freedom and our constitution. How sad.)
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