[Sir Gawain]

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[warchild9]

Recently, some old friends and I were trading childhood stories of blasting abandoned cars with all manner of firearms and surplus dynamite. Someone pointed out that it was the redneck in us: Rednecks love loud noises. The Kid.

[Teacher317]

Bump for cherished childhood memories during this holiday season!

[Clemenza]

Brings back fond memories of playing GI Joe with my friends in the park next door to my house in NY. We would "shoot it out" (figuratively) to decide who would be Cobra or the Russians. I had a replica M-16 that looked like the real thing.

My mom may be liberal on many issues, but thank G-d that she wasn't a feminist who prevented me from playing soldier.

[pabianice]

Guns cause violence like Liberals cause stupidi... er... never mind.

[arly]

Great Post !

[Paradox]

Ah, reminds me of my youth, wherein we would spend 6 hours per summer day, playing "Army". Making that machine gun sound from your mouth "Brrrraaaa.... Brrrraaa". With our rules, you would be "dead" for 2 minutes you had to count out loud. Then, at the end of 2 minutes, you had ten seconds of immunity to get out of the area before becoming a valid target again. We had rules that covered grenade usage, what constituted a wounding vs a fatal hit.. all that from 10-13 year old boys. We would lay siege for hours sometimes on forts we had built.. man, the good old days..

I even had a small "factory" where I would cut out some crude M-16 looking things traced out on a piece of wood, and paint it black. I could make a few per day and then we'd go out and use them. ..

I never grew up into a gun fanatic, never have owned a real firearm... never wanted to take a gun into battle and kill innocent people or anything. As far as I know, none of my friends from the day did either...

[Dan from Michigan]

That's what we used to do when I was a kid as well. This PC crap has recently come in the last 10 years or so.

It's time to kick it to the curb, for good.

[1Old Pro]

I recall as a kid that guns were always great presents. As an adult guns are always great presents.

Some things never change....

[ctdonath2]

My brother tried to raise his boys with a "no toy guns" policy. When he realized that ANYTHING (legos, pencils, ...) could be and was used as a "gun", he relented and the kids got all the toy guns they wanted - with proper gun-rules training.

[Colt .45]

Yeah, but how long is it until the Socialists stormtroop into town and tell the parents that they are permanently damaging their kid's psyche? How long until the "For the Good of Society", or the "For the Children" communistas come out of the woodwork with threats and ridiculous lawsuits to ban these type of toys? How long until the PC tyrannists try to muzzle these kids' type of fun? How long before the Million Nazi Moms rally against this type of innocent play?

How long?