Liberal, Hippie, PC Claptrap and Halloween Costumes (VANITY RANT)

Malacoda

[Malacoda]

Oh, I am enraged.

I went to Target (TARGET, of all places!) to purchase the last few things I needed to finish off my toddler son's Halloween costume. He's going to be a cowboy -- jeans, boots, flannel shirt, leather vest, sherrif's star, hat...and little gunbelts, if I can actually ever GET them.

Because Target doesn't carry "gun-based toys." According to the employee (and manager) I asked, it's "socially irresponsible" to expose kids to guns.

MEANWHILE, they have about eighty damn copies of "Grand Theft Auto."

"Socially irresponsible."

Anyone have any ideas where I can get cowboy accessories?

[RandallFlagg]

I had something similar happen at a CompUSA.

I was looking for an add-on to the game, "Blood 2" and the guy at the vounter says snobbishly, "WE don't carry violent videogames here."

I proceeded to yank games off the shelf next to him and describe some details: "THIS one lets you staple someone's head to a wall (Aliens Versus Predator). THIS one lets you---" And on and on.

Never went back.

[cyclotic]

http://www.411toys.com/

They have all sorts of toy weapons and play sets for kids, and grown up kids too.

My 6 year old got me in the head last night with an airsoft gun. Really stung too in the cold weather.

[George Smiley]

(puts on best rasping, gruff voice)

"Cowboys don't accessorize, ma'am--"

"That is, unless they're one-a them Village People".

[sasafras]

"and of course all made in China."

or Mexico or India...whats your point? Who doesnt sell Chinese made crap? If you want to spend more for something made here then do it. Dont blame Walmart - blame the US for not forcing them to float their currency as we do.

[Hegemony Cricket]

LOL - you'll shoot yer eye out!

[sasafras]

Yikes - talk about scary looking!!!!!

[50sDad]

Although, if I recall it right, didn't Spielburg electronically remove the gun in the hand of the Black Helicopter Ops who were walking through the darkness hunting ET when Spielburg re-released the film?

[George Smiley]

Counterproof:

Schindler's List: although he did omit the part about how toward the end of the war, Schindler armed his Jews.

From Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally: Schindler armed his Jews [end of Chapter 35]

During the winter [of 1944], Oskar built up an independent arsenal. Again there are the legends: Some say that the weapons were bought at the end of winter from the Czech underground. But Oskar had been an obvious National Socialist in 1938 and 1939 and may have been wary of dealing with the Czechs. Most of the weapons, in any case, came from a flawless source, from Obersturmbannführer Rasch, SS and police chief of Moravia. The small cache included carbines and automatic weapons, some pistols, some hand grenades. Oskar would later describe the transaction offhandedly. He acquired the arms, he would say, “under the pretense of protecting my factory, for the price of the gift of a brilliant ring to his [Rasch’s] wife.”

Oskar does not detail his performance in Rasch’s office in Brno’s Spilberk Castle. It is not hard to imagine, though. The Herr Doktor, concerned about a possible slave uprising as the war grinds on, is willing to die expensively at his desk, automatic weapon in hand, having mercifully dispatched his wife with a bullet to save her from something worse. The Herr Doktor also touches on the chance that the Russians might turn up at the gate. My civilian engineers, Fuchs and Schoenbrun, my honest technicians, my German-speaking secretary, all of them deserve to have the means of resistance. It’s gloomy talk, of course. I’d rather speak of issues closer to our hearts, Herr Obersturmbannführer. I know your passion for good jewelry. May I show you this example I found last week? And so the ring appeared on the edge of Rasch’s blotter, Oskar murmuring, “As soon as I saw it, I thought of Frau Rasch.”

Once Oskar had the weapons, he appointed Uri Bejski, brother of the rubber-stamp maker, keeper of the arsenal. Uri was small, handsome, lively. People noticed that he wandered into and out of the Schindlers’ private quarters like a son. He was a favorite, too, with Emilie, who gave him keys to the apartment. Frau Schindler enjoyed a similar maternal relationship with the surviving Spira boy. She took him regularly into her kitchen and fed him up on slices of bread and margarine.

Having selected the small body of prisoners for training, Uri took one at a time into Salpeter’s storehouse to teach them the mechanisms of the Gewehr 41 W’s. Three commando squads of five men each had been formed . Some of Bejski’s trainees were boys like Lutek Feigenbaum. Others were Polish veterans such as Pfefferberg and those other prisoners whom the Schindler prisoners called the “Budzyn people.”

The Budzyn people were Jewish officers and men of the Polish Army. They had lived through the liquidation of the Budzyn labor camp, which had been under the administration of Untersturmbannführer Liepold. Liepold had bought them into his new command in Brinnlitz. There were about 50 of them, and they worked in Oskar’s kitchens. People remember them as very political. They had learned Marxism during their imprisonment in Budzyn, and looked forward to a Communist Poland. It was an irony that in Brinnlitz they lived in the warm kitchen of that most apolitical of capitalists, Herr Oskar Schindler.
Mbr> Their rapport with the bulk of the prisoners, who, apart from the Zionists, merely followed the politics of survival, was good. A number of them took private lessons on Uri Bejska’s automatics, for in the Polish Army of the Thirties, they had never held such sophisticated weapons.

If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband’s power in Brno, had idly-during a party, say, a musical recital at the castle-gazed into the core of the diamond that had come to her from Oskar Schindler, she would have seen reflected there the worst incubus from her own dreams and her Führer’s. An armed Marxist Jew.

In addition, Spielberg is reputed to have an extensive gun collection, including Class IIIs, which are darn hard to come by in California.

But he won't be seen in public with one.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Point what out? An "M" rated game that is locked up behind glass doors? Where's the problem?

No problem, just a contradiction. If the store thinks selling guns to adults is socially irresponsible, then how come how come a game where you get points for killing people is not?

[Tarantulas]

Cap Gun: Metal, Double Holster set (silver)
Code: DT400
Price: $11.95
Shipping Weight: 3.00 pounds

2 Die Cast Metal Cap Guns(Silver metal color) 7.5 " long (with plastic grips ). Just the right size for that little sheriff
* This is a true revolver that breaks like the real thing and the bullet chamber revolves. Shoots ring caps(ammo-8)
* 2 Black vinyl holsters(leather like tooling) with black belt. Sheriff badge and bullet holder
* includes orange safety plug.
We like everything about this set except the belt. But you can use almost any 1" wide belt with this holster set.

Maintenance hint for diecast metal cap guns: If your caps do not fire or the trigger is very hard to pull spray WD40 on all the moving parts (Be sure to wipe it clean after spraying)

Link

[ViLaLuz]

Your mistake was shopping at Target.

[El Gato]

I just went to Targets web site and searched "gun". I got 8,100 items.Chaulking gun, glue gun, staple gun etc, etc. Under "toys" there were only 6 hits, half of them were military minatures (tank, anti-tank gun (1/6 scale!), and gun car) two were "nerf" gun toys, and the third was a teenage mutant ninja turtle laser gun. Better than nothing, but not a 6 shooter, muzzle loader, or lever action rifle in the bunch, not even a "pirate pistol". More encouraging, 4 of the 6 hits in "sports" are paintball "markers", which look suspeciously like guns, one very much like a semi-auto handgun.

The vast majority of the hits were in, Music (514), DVD (117), Video (326), and Books (6891).

However there was one that must have slipped past management. An actual stun gun, in the shape of a flashlight.