Linda Fiorentino in the flesh! 1985
Am am utterly disgusted, and dismayed that a wide-ranging Nerf game of "Last Man Standing" is now cause for this level of "OMF'nG!!!" hand-wringing concern. In a better -- I hope not lost forever -- day, this wouldn't have even raised a blip on the radar; we all knew the obvious difference between kids playing and psychos like The Zodiac Killer.
Apparently, not anymore.
I think "The American Experiment" is in DEEP trouble.
Sounded like it could be fun.
Linda Fiorentino in the flesh! 1985
We did this in high school with squirt guns. And painting them to look more realistic was encouraged. The more real looking, the better. Of course, where I grew up in Western PA, you could get up to two excused absence days to go deer hunting, and it was not at all uncommon to bring a shotgun or rifle to school in the morning, put it in your locker, and go hunting right after school let out.
Sounds like something from the 40’ and 50’s. It was a BFD back then, you impersonated Bogart, Wayne, Audry, Rogers, Ladd, Flynn, Raft, hell, you even shot your friends with a BB gun. Nerf? it shoots a tub shape marshmallow thingy, its not like getting hit with a rubber band powered piece of linoleum. Actually thinking back to those times, we did have store bought red and white, spring powered, Luger shaped pop guns, that shot test tube cork tops. Yup it sure did raise a generation of cold blooded killers. NOT!
The VP sounds like quite the p***y.
Don’t want one of these miscreants to get plunked by some trigger happy rambo. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Sounds like a game some enterprising teachers could spice up with nerf ebf-25’s.
Meanwhile, in the anything goes high school bathrooms....
I agree with you. One of the basic kid-excitement feelings is being chased...in the dark... with repercussions should you be found.
My 2yr old grandson has just learned how to play tag and hide and seek. Even tho I’m a “woman of a certain age”, playing with him is a total blast! And when his 14yr old brother joins in, it’s even more fun. With the older one, we play for KEEPS! Their parents like us to keep it at the level right below blood or hair loss.
In other words, the “community “ needs to let their kids be kids. Sure, the ‘rents need to have a serious talk with the teens about gun safety ( sorry, but I insist all play guns have an orange tip) and appropriate places to play, but I just have to assume the teens have just a tinch of common sense.
Where’s the note to the community telling them that things are about to get weird, they need to observe a bit before they freak out.
There have been serious studies indicating that children who are not given a creative outlet for “violent actions”, have a tendency to become ACTUALLY violent as adolescents and young adults.
Back in the day when kids went to the movies for the Sat cowboy films and the whole world knew that the shooting was not real and the dead cowboys would turn up next Sat. this “game” might have been okay. In today’s world it could get somebody killed for real. Not a good mind-set for young people either, “assassin” should not be the best name for a “game” when we have people who actually might try to assassinate our President. Sorry, in this case I think the school is right to discourage this.
Nerf guns are “potentially dangerous”? When we were kids, we played “war” and “cops and robbers” and “cowboys and Indians” all the time. Now, they want little boys to dress in princess dresses.
Have they banned ping-pong yet?
I’m with you...this sounds like a blast...but of course kids doing politically incorrect things must be controlled or outlawed.
http://www.sjgames.com/killer/
First published 1981. Source of handwringing and fainting ever since.
ARTH ping!
You could have mentioned that this pathetic, nanny-state nonsense is coming from Pleasanton, California...a suburb of San Francisco.
https://patch.com/california/pleasanton/pleasanton-police-warn-parents-assassin-game
A couple years back my neighbor calls me and says “Get your gun. There is a van full of armed dudes wearing masks in front of my house”. I looked out the front window and saw my neighbor pressed against the wall of his house with his .45 at the ready. In front of his house was, sure enough, a van with two dudes wearing masks and a couple more dudes getting out with what appeared to be carbines.
My neighbor was going to rush them.
Three squad cars flew into the scene and drew down on the dudes in the van.
They were kids playing nerf wars. And almost got there stupid f*cking heads blown off by a bunch of armed citizens and cops.
Paint ball w/o the sting....and cheaper than paint ball and laser tag.....