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- From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: More newbie questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.000342.23148@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:05:06 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Cat Factory
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec16.183456.22915@news.eng.convex.com> cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
- }In article <viking.724472619@vincent2.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- }
- }...about kids & toy guns
- }
- }# It's a non-issue. Kids are remarkably adept at determining what is
- }#a play toy and what is real, despite using your best Snap-On wrenches as
- }#drumsticks. It seems to me that they can be taught at a very early age
- }#what is a real gun (do not touch) and what is a play gun (have fun). This
- }#is often reinforced by the play gun being given to them and kept in their
- }#toybox, while the real gun stays in Daddy's closet safe.
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- Very young children may not understand. One of my XSO's horror stories is
- of the time a neighbor's child visited her son. There was an unloaded,
- but otherwise very realistic, blank pistol on their coffee table. The
- kid's first reaction was to pick it up, point it at her kid and pull the
- trigger.
-
- Children are impulsive. They don't always think before acting.
-
- }There have been cases of kids getting shot because they pointed a gun at
- }the wrong person. Also, it gives me the creeps to have some strange kid
- }point what I can only hope--but don't know for sure--is a toy at me. It's
- }sad, but these days it's just possible that the gun is for real.
-
- If a kid wants a toy gun, get them the fanciest, prettiest, weirdest
- looking kill-o-zap space gun in the toy store. They look nothing like
- real guns, don't sound like real guns and should be brightly colored
- enough to make it obvious they aren't real guns.
-
- Your kid will love it and the cops won't mistake it for something that
- could hurt them. (Just be glad Star Trek is in fashion and westerns
- aren't (-: ).
-
- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
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