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bondwooley

(1,198 posts) Thu Jan 12, 2012, 06:48 PM Jan 2012

GOP Time Machine: A Gun In Every Toy Box

Part 7 in a series that looks back at the 1950s and asks: "Is this why the Republican Party wants us to go back in time?

(Original post at: http://lesterandcharlie.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/the-gop-time-machine-a-gun-in-every-toy-box/)

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GOP Time Machine: A Gun In Every Toy Box (Original Post) bondwooley Jan 2012 OP

The better to shoot brown people & liberal commies with. baldguy Jan 2012 #1

I don't really miss the general rarity of toy guns in toy stores today. mysuzuki2 Jan 2012 #2

I almost agree fayhunter Jan 2012 #3

And now there's a 'gun' on every wii control and computer keyboard petronius Jan 2012 #4

Guns for kids! scrubthedata Jan 2012 #5

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

1. The better to shoot brown people & liberal commies with.

Reply to bondwooley (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 06:50 PM

Jan 2012

The '50s was a RW paradise compared to today.

mysuzuki2

(3,521 posts)

2. I don't really miss the general rarity of toy guns in toy stores today.

Reply to bondwooley (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 07:13 PM

Jan 2012

That being said, I really don't think they were all that horrible either. I played with toy guns all the time when I was a kid in the 50s and early 60s. I did not grow up to be violent at all. I do not own real guns and have no desire to.

fayhunter

(221 posts)

3. I almost agree

Reply to mysuzuki2 (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 07:27 PM

Jan 2012

My bothers grew up with toy guns in the 60s and they're anything but deranged (I was a girl so I couldn't play with them!).

But when a friend's 6-year-old girl was shot by her 8-year-old brother - who thought their Dad's gun was a toy - I really changed my mind about letting kids play even with toy ones.

petronius

(26,602 posts)

4. And now there's a 'gun' on every wii control and computer keyboard

Reply to bondwooley (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 09:34 PM

Jan 2012

The old way was better - at least we got some exercise. But sticks were even cheaper: and they could be guns or swords!

scrubthedata

(382 posts)

5. Guns for kids!

Reply to bondwooley (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:31 PM

Jan 2012

Maybe they'd have the sense to know what to do with them, because adults certainly don't.

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