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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on January 18, 2013, 01:01:32 PM
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CreekDog (35,415 posts)
Guns aren't toys and there shouldn't be toy guns, nor children's games with guns or shooting ..because he SAID SO.
It's pretty simple really.
Maybe my family had it right after all. As a kid, dressed up as a cowboy, I wasn't allowed to use or have toy guns as part of the costume. This was the 70's, in the aftermath of Vietnam and shortly before my congressman was assassinated in Guyana and two leaders in the city I went to school in were assassinated one week later. Perfectly or not, my deprivation of even the symbol of a gun was in service to the lessons of non-violence learned sometimes as a sad legacy of a parent who lost heroes in the 1960's (she later said to me that "it seemed like anyone good would be shot and killed"). You dressed up as a COWBOY, you imperialist colonialist racist murderer?
Oh and a few years later, my neighbor was a Palestinian kid my age. We played "war" constantly, which involved running around and pretending, with our hands, to shoot each other. I was completely unaware of what was going on in the Middle East in the early 1980's when we did this, or of the ironic parallel.
Just HAPPENED to be "Palestinian." Yeah. Reminds me of the time I was playing light sabers with this neighborhood kid from Alderaan. Little did I know his whole planet was destroyed by the Bush Death Star.
And so I did without guns, well, up and to a point. And yes, even though I made believe, the thing that stuck with me more was not being allowed to have the toy gun. You mean you CRAVED one, and you couldn't have one, so no one else can, now?
Then as a teenager, I got to shoot guns, and up into my 20's, got to shoot for fun, for target practice, then I pretty much stopped because I didn't want to put lead into the environment (this was the early 90's). I have shot since, but rarely.So your principles evolved from not wanting to glorify murders of important leaders to not wanting to put lead in hillsides. Hey, dickhead...dontcha think they got the lead from the ground in the first place?
Guns added little to my childhood, but the lessons of not having them for the most important parts have stayed with me all my life.
Guns aren't toys. They shouldn't be. Guns have their place and purpose, and no, I don't hate them. But I see a lot of people who are getting covered by the media these days, and there are lots of adults who clearly think of their guns as toys, of sorts.Another liberal wanting to deal with their own personal issues by making choices for everyone.
Guns aren't toys. There should be a new generation that is taught never to think of them that way. And no, it won't be perfect, but it sure is worth trying.
When you weren't given a toy gun, you ****, you made one with your fingers. Stow your sanctimony up your ass.
Attempt for DU street cred NOTED. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022210469)
And just how sure is this asshole that he's right?
CreekDog (35,415 posts)
13. Guns as toys being a bad idea doesn't need a scientific study to confirm
See a therapist, not Congress, asshole.
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Sometimes it hurts to read the DUmmies.
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"A fear of weapons and guns is a sign of sexual and emotional retardation." Freud.
I present the DUmp as a complete defense for the above.
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Just HAPPENED to be "Palestinian."
DUmmie street cred.
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Is CreekDog aware that lead is an element on the periodic table and occurs in the environment?
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I have very fond memories of running about my yard or my friends' yards with water guns.
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I have very fond memories of running about my yard or my friends' yards with water guns.
No, you have memories of wasting precious water on your violent games glorifying weapons of mass destruction. Because of you and your "friends," children in Sri Lanka very probably died due to lack of fresh drinking water.
The only way you can rescue your soul from the tongue-clucking of Gaia is to support laws that permit water guns to hold no more than seven sprays of water, and that water must be reclaimed from the daily clothes washings of your closest Indian reservation.
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CreekDog (35,415 posts)
Guns aren't toys and there shouldn't be toy guns, nor children's games with guns or shooting
It's pretty simple really.
Listen, DUmmie bitch, just because you think a "toy gun" is a danger to The Children TM doesn't mean the rest of us are letting your liberal brethren in Hollywood raise ours. Most of us grown ups make sure that our children know what a firearm is, what it feels like so it can't be mistaken for a toy, that they are not allowed to touch it unless mommy or daddy are present, that (like a liberal) it will hurt them if they are careless around it, and they are put out of reach of those children. Those of us that are not immature heathens teach our children proper firearms handling with "toy guns" and, unless they are on a paintball or airsoft range, they play "war" with their fingers. These same children get to see how responsible adults handle firearms and understand that movies and video games are make believe; kinda the same way I came to understand that cartoons weren't real.
Your touching childhood story, nostalgic as it is of all of the things hippie libtards did to stunt the emotional growth of their offspring, is a load of bullshit. To wit:
- Your "Palestinian" neighbor would have been very aware of the events in the ME; his "Palestinian" parents would have made sure of that. He would have been taught to hate the "dirty Jews" from the time he could speak and any game of "war" would have been fantasies of killing Jews to liberate his homeland. You would have played many a backyard game of Imams and Rabbis - guess which one you would have been, white boy. ;)
- If your parents were such anti violence libs that they denied their son a toy in the name of liberal righteousness, why didn't they smoke your ****ing boots for playing war and turning your finger into a "gun"? Answer me that, liar.
Nice bouncy, zero bongs.
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The creekdog primitive has been one of the main kooks in the Meta forum trying to rid the island of anyone who doesn't call for all guns to be confiscated. A real anti-American and Constitution hater to the core.
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The creekdog primitive has been one of the main kooks in the Meta forum trying to rid the island of anyone who doesn't call for all guns to be confiscated. A real anti-American and Constitution hater to the core.
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Yep. You just know he was the biggest tattle tale in school.
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Maybe my family had it right after all. As a kid, dressed up as a cowboy, I wasn't allowed to use or have toy guns as part of the costume.
You were 'way ahead of your time, "Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Brokeback Mountain" were far in the future at that time.
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As a kid, dressed up as a cowboy, I wasn't allowed to use or have toy guns as part of the costume.
The gun is essential to the costume. He must have looked like a regular little douchebag. Why not just put on a dress?
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Just HAPPENED to be "Palestinian." Yeah. Reminds me of the time I was playing light sabers with this neighborhood kid from Alderaan. Little did I know his whole planet was destroyed by the Bush Death Star.
First off, H5 to Banned for the funniest thing I've read today.
Now to the DUmmie...
Guns aren't toys.
Nope, guns aren't toys, but toy guns are toys so shut up.
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What a load of crap. I still have some of my old toy guns and others I have collected over the years. There are just as many healthy and happy kids living in this world playing with toy guns as there are real gun owners and they don't grow up to be hatefull little snot balls like creekdog. A more spineless ,useless person has yet to live but giving the DUmmies a chance they will probably create one.
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“I don’t blame guns. I’m not mad at the guy that killed 23 people, including my parents, at the Killeen Luby’s years ago. How can I be mad at a rabid dog? I blame politicians that legislated away my right to carry a gun to protect myself & my family. I made the most stupid decision of my life when I decided, several months before the Luby’s shooting, to stop carrying a revolver in my purse in the event I would be caught & lose my chiropractor’s license. That decision left me unarmed at the time when I most needed a gun.â€
– Former Texas State Rep. Suzanna Hupp of Lampasas
"Tell them you will no longer put up with their un-American stand on guns and law-abiding citizens will not "obey" any more unconstitutional junk gun laws. " --Devvy Kidd*
"In being confronted by the reality that government cannot and will not guarantee my personal safety, I am infinitely thankful, both as a woman and an American, that the Bill of Rights still guarantees my right to defend myself with a gun. Any true feminist must support this position. Any woman who claims to be a feminist, but who supports disarmament of law-abiding citizens is simply a dangerous hypocrite." --Katherine von Tour, "My Transformation From Anti-Gun Feminist To Armed Feminist"
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My God, look what liberalism has done to the "men". Listen up lurking DU "men", no normal woman wants to screw a *****, well unless she wants an actual *****. Then she would be a lesbian.
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What a crybaby. It's laughable... "guns hurt the environment, boo hoo". :rofl:
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Erose999 (4,168 posts)
32. I once brought a toy dart gun (the old suction cup darts) to 1st grade for show and tell. It was
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1986 before the days of "zero tolerance". Well my friend snatched it away from me and shot the teacher with it, and the little suction cup dart hit her right in the forehead. She snatched us both up by the ears (literally) and took us to the principal's office. I got a spanking, and if I remember right my friend got a spanking and detention a few days. "Detention" then was they would move your desk into the copy room facing the wall for the day.
I remember I was a little snot when I was a kid. I loved guns and my heroes were Chuck Norris and Reagan. The first day I got a BB gun my friends and I were shooting each other with them. Also, unsurprisingly, I wasn't very well liked amongst the other kids in the neighborhood. LOL
what the **** happened to this guy for him to end up at the DUmp
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Erose999 (4,168 posts)
The first day I got a BB gun my friends and I were shooting each other with them.
I had a childhood filled with Daisy BB guns and friends with Daisy BB guns, and never once can I recall one kid shooting at another.
The thought of firing at another person never occurred to anyone. It was simply not done.
This is a total DUmp bouncy tale from DUmmy Erosenumbers.
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I had a childhood filled with Daisy BB guns and friends with Daisy BB guns, and never once can I recall one kid shooting at another.
The thought of firing at another person never occurred to anyone. It was simply not done.
This is a total DUmp bouncy tale from DUmmy Erosenumbers.
No, I knew some that were stupid enough to do that. Those were the kids that got the shit kicked out of them by the rest of us for being that stupid.