"These young people are brainwashed at such a young age with toy guns," Mackey said. "We must remove them."
Typical _______________(name) thinks the (ban/boycott/immediate destruction of) ___________ is a great idea because (he/she/it) doesn't (want/buy/use/like/own) any ______________ .
SO if they don't want one, don't get one. Sheesh!
"These young people are brainwashed at such a young age with toy guns," Mackey said. "We must remove them."
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No water guns? Those are the best things to have in the summer.
Instead of blaming an inanimate object for violence in Philly he should pick up Dick Cosby’s books and realize that urban violence is directly connected to the spwaning of children without joint parental oversight. Kids need fathers not just to produce them biologically, but to supervise them and rear them and the widespread illegitimacy among the urban black community is directly responsible for gun violence, drug abuse, etc.
There should be some way to hold people directly responsible for producing children and then walking away from the responsibility of taking care of them.
Perhaps they should regulate penises in Philly instead of guns.
bttt
Maybe they can get the stores to fill the empty shelves with Daddys for these kids.
It comes more from the culture kids are raised in than the availability of toys. Death, injury, arrest, they just aren’t big things in the ‘gangsta’ culture.
My mom (63) played with water pistols and cap guns and a Roy Rogers-type gun. My sister and I had water guns and cap guns. My husband played with toy guns. He decided that our boys wouldn’t be allowed to have guns - so they ‘made’ guns with Legos and sticks, their hands and everything else (what is is it about boys and guns???? lol). But hubby caved after seeing them build guns. They were allowed big water guns and when our oldest was about 6, he wanted a ‘buffalo gun’ (his words) a ‘rifle’ that cracked when you pulled the trigger. Both sons have grown up around guns - shotguns and muzzle loaders, husband hunts - and both of them are gentle and loving and not violent at all. Fighting and namecalling, hurting anyone else, was prohibited.
Grow up in a culture such as inner city kids do, and not one toy in the world is going to make a difference.
“Kid, you’ll put your eye out!”
I bet these parents buy their kids video war games but would not even think of buying them toy guns.
Ignorance is curable. STUPID is forever.
And some day, these wimps will call upon yet another generation of American boys and girls to sallie forth with — shudder — REAL guns to defend them from the international thug du jour who did not live where guns were taboo.
That isn't due to toy guns - it's because people in Philadelphia aren't very bright. They can't be the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree if they keep electing democRATS to run their failing, overtaxed city.
Noting wrong with toy guns. This is absurd.
seems the marketplace has spoken.
Does this include video games?
Will Halo3 selling stores be boycotted?
How about stores that sell war based DVDs? (all those drive bys caused by “Tora Tora Tora” or “The Patriot”...)
Since when do pacifists have money? They don’t.
You can have my Fanner 50 when you pry it from my cold clammy hands.
When you talk like that, smile, pardner.