Toy Gun Buyback

[mx'r]

Totally stupid BUT we all had BB rifles when I was a kid and we had BB gun battles ! We all agreed to no headshots and I'll be damned if the old "you'll shoot someone's eye out" never happened. While I wouldn't support this activity as an adult, those were some great days !!

shew! I thought I was the only one to play bb war as a kid with some of the neighbor kids. hurts like hell, but lot's of fun.

[Geology Rocks]

Reason # 1,546,859,423,658,489,325,145,155,897,325,125,235, 154,658.000000000000000000000000000000000000001

i will never move back to Massachusetts. I grew up in the city of Boston. I love it out there, but will never move back. Maybe to VT or NH, but not Mass. oh and the fact that all my guns are illegal there. hahah

joe

[funkfool]

Some children were not thrilled with the trade.

Malik Hall, a round-eyed second-grader, looked apprehensive as he stood in line with his favorite toy, a thick, blue gun with plastic sword underneath the muzzle. The 8-year-old was furious when his mother, Amanda, told him he would have to give it up. Yesterday morning, he tried to hide it under his pillow, she said.

“I’m worried,’’ she said. “He might cry.’’

But when it was his turn, Malik strode dry-eyed and with quiet dignity to the Bash-O-Matic and fed it the gun. When his mother approached, he said nothing.

“You don’t want to talk to me?’’ Hall asked. He looked at her stonily and left to retrieve his gift.

Yeah - nothing says "I love you" more than forcing a child to destroy his favorite toy.

[Irving]

We once had some dipshit sheriff's deputy pull over his car and start yelling at my friend to lay on the ground. We were about 12, playing guns, and my friend was stalking across my front yard with his hands shaped like a gun. It must have been that guys first day or something. He couldn't wait to tell me that he worked at the jail for the sheriff over and over again.

[WETWRKS]

How do you teach children to be safe with an automobile? It isn't by avoiding them and making them out to be an item of evil. Nor do you have matchbox car crushes. You teach them how to safely handle them and to respect the power it holds.

[Byte Stryke]

How do you teach children to be safe with an automobile? It isn't by avoiding them and making them out to be an item of evil. Nor do you have matchbox car crushes. You teach them how to safely handle them and to respect the power it holds.

OK now, Don't be bringing logic into this discussion. Everyone knows that when you try to use logic on liberals they resort to name calling.

[cstone]

"Some parents confessed that they bought guns just a couple of days before the event so their children could get a gift or watch the Bash-O-Matic do its work.

“He likes the feeling of breaking things without getting in trouble,’’ said Dominic’s mother, April Johnson, who bought his gun just a couple of days ago."

Just like the real gun buy back programs.

"Diane Levin, professor of education at Wheelock College, said police and parents coming together to destroy toy guns sends a powerful message to children."

Spoken like another expert on children who doesn't have any of her own. Here is the powerful message: Hide your guns or someone bigger and more powerful than you will take them away.

[Castle]

wow. i dont have much to say. just alot of head shaking to do.

[argonstrom]

“He likes the feeling of breaking things without getting in trouble,’’ said Dominic’s mother, April Johnson

There's some great parenting there...

[BPTactical]

There's some great parenting there...

That is the same thing I thought.
This whole thing is an example of sperm donors/recipients not being parents and not teaching their offspring morals.

Talk about "Pussification"