Posted on 05/19/2015 12:21:06 PM PDT by grundle
The Boy Scouts of America has put out approved activities for its members, and water gun fights are strictly prohibited.
A blog for the organization’s leaders said May 6 that pointing simulated firearms at people is not allowed.
“Why the rule? A Scouter once told me this explanation I liked quite a bit: A Scout is kind. What part of pointing a firearm [simulated or otherwise] at someone is kind?” said Bryan Wendell on the scouting website.
The rule is clarified in the Boy Scouts of America National Shooting Manual, which says “For water balloons, use small, biodegradable balloons, and fill them no larger than a ping pong ball. […] Water guns and rubber band guns must only be used to shoot at targets, and eye protection must be worn.”
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Making the next generation little metrosexual boys
turning them into the girl scouts has started..
Let’s get those boy scouts in dresses and working on those advanced knitting and sensitivity training merit badges
Why not merge with the girlscouts and be done with it?
Boy Scouts....BS....these days.
No larger than a ping pong ball?
The Patriots don’t seem to be the only ones battling deflation these days.
Who the heck is making up all these ridiculous rules? Who hijacked this once great organization?
What’s next? A merit badge for dress making and doll house construction?
Let’s get the WIMPS out of the leadership and put some MEN at the head of the Boy Scouts!
The left is winning everything they want to destroy. Just so dang frustrating.
Having been an Eagle Scout, back when being an Eagle Scout still meant something honorable...
My pop, Freeper “Skyraider”, was Wood Badge.
This is ridiculous. I’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad...
The scouts are so dead.
Eagle scouts must be particularly sad.
5.56mm
America has rapidly become an embarrassment to everything it once was and once represented.
This really takes the cake.
Yup. Be happy. The Zeitgeist rolls along and we are powerless to change it at this point. It is a good time to be old.
ping pong ball water balloons probably will not even burst. What a bunch of P@$#&es!
There is no time limit to being an Eagle Scout.
If you were once, you still are.
The national office - keeping the BS in the BSA. :-(
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