Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perhaps it isn't guns but god. Outlaw religion and what would we have to fight about? :-) B. D. Colen wrote: >Funny you should mention all this, Frank - No, our kids didn't have Davy >Crockett, and Lord knows they didn't have Cowboys and Original Americans,;-) >- but they had Star Wars - with laser sabers and guns. > >My wife and I were determined we weren't going to let our kids play with toy >guns, until my first-born kept taking the thermometer from his toy 'doctor >kit' and sticking it into the otoscope to turn it into a pistol! So we asked >a child psychiatrist friend of ours, a wonder, gentle, insightful man who >had written a terrific child rearing book called "What Shall We Tell The >Children," what he thought about kids and toy guns. His response? "I have >them in the toy basket in my office" He said that he only worried about toy >guns and kids when the kids would use the toy guns to act out violent acts - >as in pointing them at parents or friends in anger, and expressing a wish to >kill them. The other thing that he said was a real warning sign of trouble >ahead was kids exhibiting intentional cruelty toward animals. > >Anyway, my point about playing with toy guns, Davy Crockett, etc., was how >ingrained all that is/was in our society. Yes, Westerns are pretty much gun >- certainly on t.v. - but look at what's on instead. > > > > > > >On 10/20/06 9:53 AM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > >>I was thinking ..... >> >>Me too, all of these. But there is a whole generation that has no idea of >>what you are talking about.... My kids for instance..... >>cowboys and Indians? Playing Davy Crockett? Do you think they would have >>had >>any idea? We date ourselves from our memories and >>our statements... 30 somethings just will never know the joy of that real >>fur >>cap ( rabbit skin). >> >>My wife, upon birth of our first son, decided there would be no play guns. >>Her father was a Life member of the NRA, but she is dead >>set against violence. Play guns breed violence. So the kid has toys like >>hammers, blocks etc, but no toy guns. He is about 2 now, >>and he is playing with a friend. Lunch time. The boys were very animated, >>having lots of fun at the table when our son picks up a >>banana, aims it at his friend and "shoots" him with that banana. >> >>Frank Filippone >>red735i@earthlink.net >> >>I don't know about you, Walt, but I grew up playing with toy guns - playing >>war, playing "Davy Crockett," playing "cowboys and Indians." Think about >>how >>much all that play had to do with the acceptance of guns as a part of every >>day life. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >