Posted on 05/29/2013 4:57:38 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
Low crime area or not you DON”T point a gun , toy or not, at a passing car . Today is a lot different than the fifties when I grew up and it might well be a real firearm being parents are so damned stupid nowadays.Kids could have pointed at the WRONG car and would be dead now.
At least they didn't arrest them...
Be grateful they didn’t send out a SWAT team to shoot them!
...or shoot their dog.
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When I was a little tyke I played with toy guns so much, that if it was back then like today...I’d still be in jail.
A few years ago, I was getting out of my car at a convenience store, when out of the corner of my eye I saw what appeared to be a rifle suddenly thrust out the window of the car beside me, and pointed directly at me. I instinctively grabbed it, and snatched it away from what turned out to be a small child. It was a realistic looking toy gun. I was so embarrassed. I immediately gave it back, apologized, and told the kid he shouldn’t point it at anyone. His mother saw the whole thing from inside the store. When she came angrily flying out of the store I thought I was toast. Nope, she tore into the kid verbally and physically. I doubt he was ever stupid enough to point a toy gun at anyone again.
I’m surprised at the number of FReepers who think it’s a good idea for kids to point toy guns at passing cars, and equate that with the responsible way children used to play with guns before the idiots took control. They’re probably the same people who equate throwing water balloons off an overpass at cars in the interstate with throwing water balloons at each other in the back yard.
I agree. In this day and age how is anyone in a car supposed to know if the gun is real or a toy? What if one of the driver’s thought they were going to be shot and defended himself? Then what?
Ignoring the safety issues, I’m shocked we were allowed to ‘play’ with these guns, because they had to have been valuable.
Some of them were either a flintlock or cap kind of setup, and we loved to play with that mechanism. Some were lever action, and we would play with that and pull the trigger. Some must have been lever pump air rifles, since we would stick the barrel in the ground, to get a plug of dirt...and pull the trigger to make a puff of dust. A few were revolvers, and we loved pulling the trigger and turning the cylinder.
This collection today...had we not abused it playing army...would probably be very valuable today.
Back to the safety issue...I have no idea if these were functioning guns...but I suspect they were. They didn’t seem modified in any way...they were just old. I guess my friend’s dad was confident that a 6 year old couldn’t get ammo for an old lever action rifle.
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