Chad Cooper wrote:
> It used to be a kid could get a realistic looking gun that took caps and
> made a lot of noise.
> Nowadays, its practically illegal to let your children play with toy guns of
> any type. It is certainly frowned upon, and can get you ostersized out of
> some social circles.
It's illegal to sell a replica of any machine gun, I believe. I have a
friend who got a fake AK-47 for prop purposes before that law went into
effect. Somewhere there's a photo of me wearing camoflauge that's too
big for me, holding that fake gun.... (And an annoyingly cute cartoon
based on the photo.)
I'm not planning on buying any toy guns, but I hear that boys are good
at picking up just about anything and treating it as a gun for play
purposes. (I won't rule out toy guns the way I'm trying to rule out
Barbie, I just figure it's a waste to spend money on something that a
kid will find a substitute for *anyway*.)
> When I was a kid, we used hand-made sling shots to fire projectiles at
> moving cars.... or even more challenging... wet toilet paper (AKA
> "Splatting") or snowballs. Kids have it so easy these days...
We didn't bother with assisted propelling. We just threw stuff. Got
yelled at when we threw rotting grapes at the wheels of a passing car;
the driver backed up and bawled us out, telling us how dangerous it was,
etc. and how we shouldn't be throwing rocks. (We would have *never*
thrown rocks; those hurt! We'd thrown enough rotting grapes at each
other to figure that there was a real limit as to what sort of damage
*those* could do.)
Julia
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