Impureclient
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Toy gun buy back........:banghead:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23406432/hayward-school-sponsors-toy-gun-exchange
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23406432/hayward-school-sponsors-toy-gun-exchange
ANother gun buy back, with a twist
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Does a poptart nibbled into an "L" qualify for a raffle ticket?
I really question the sanity of this; how much more likely is it that a kid is going to get hurt playing with the bike they won than with the toy gun they traded in?
Hope they'll be supplying a helmet and kneepads with the thing 
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I really question the sanity of this; how much more likely is it that a kid is going to get hurt playing with the bike they won than with the toy gun they traded in?
Hope they'll be supplying a helmet and kneepads with the thing TCB
rduchateau2954
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No but they will pass a law making it illegal not to wear them and then ticket the kids in the parking lot.
Gotta make that money.
Gotta make that money.
Since they are going to start doing things like this, the NRA should increase the number of events they hold for children. Get a bunch of rimfire rifles and hand guns and post flyers and adds everywhere they can, and post along with it "its up to us to teach our children the american way" bet ya that will set some people on fire. 
No seriously tho we have to start getting kids interested in guns, not just family either. Thats why the flyers and advertisements would be good. "Hey kids instead of playing video games you could learn how to shoot a real gun safely and with responsibility." Would help prove that firearms are not evil and may even reduce the number of deaths of children caused by accidents involving firearms.
No seriously tho we have to start getting kids interested in guns, not just family either. Thats why the flyers and advertisements would be good. "Hey kids instead of playing video games you could learn how to shoot a real gun safely and with responsibility." Would help prove that firearms are not evil and may even reduce the number of deaths of children caused by accidents involving firearms.Texan Scott
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Indoctrination, plain and simple. Use of taxpayer dollars to promote a blatantly partisan political agenda to CHILDREN. Disgraceful. Ought to be illegal.
You hit the nail on the head, sir.
At the end of the article, they quote the principle: "If we want older kids to not think guns are cool, we need to start early,"... He pretty much admits that his intent is to brainwash these kids.
And I thought the indoctrination was bad when I was a kid.
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It's just another manifestation of "guns are the problem" and Holder's assertion that children must be "brainwashed" (his own terminology). I guess they'd rather teach children how to gamble, which is what this really amounts to, than how to be responsible citizens, which of course goes hand-in-hand with indoctrination instead of teaching them to be critical thinkers. We really need to stop sending our children to public schools.
I guess they'd rather teach children how to gamble, which is what this really amounts to, than how to be responsible citizens, which of course goes hand-in-hand with indoctrination instead of teaching them to be critical thinkers. We really need to stop sending our children to public schools.It would be interesting to see how that would work . I mean, it would be the height of hypocrisy NOT to accept a chewed-up Pop Tart for a toy gun "buy back" if it is acceptable (possible is a better criterion) to suspend a child with same chew-up Pop Tart. In fact, it would be GREAT (if it were possible) to bring the SAME Pop Tart to the buy-back...
. I mean, it would be the height of hypocrisy NOT to accept a chewed-up Pop Tart for a toy gun "buy back" if it is acceptable (possible is a better criterion) to suspend a child with same chew-up Pop Tart. In fact, it would be GREAT (if it were possible) to bring the SAME Pop Tart to the buy-back...Now I see, it was all my parent's fault for getting me those cap pistols when I was 5 years old. I guess we have to stop our children from playing cowboys and Indians it's bad for their mental health or cops and robbers for that mater. It's much better that the children stay indoors and play Call of Duty and use fully automatic weapons than get outside and get any exercise.
Wait, no more water pistols, no more American history about the revolutionary war or civil war, no more stories of how we won the west, no more books about Jesse James or Bonnie & Clyde or Bill the Kid, no more information about Medal of Honor winners or how our fathers saved us from world domination during WWII or grandfathers in WWI. Oh my goodness, no more Lone Ranger or Hopalong Cassidy or Roy Rogers and please tell me that they aren't getting rid of John Wayne's history. No more BB guns or pellet rifles or hunting stories, or Danial Boone or (for our Texas friends) the Alamo.
Well you get the idea. It will be a much safer world if these kids turn in their cap guns and go play Battlefield or Call of Duty or anyone of a hundred first person shooters on their TV's. Just make sure the kids don't exchange any information about their game playing at school or they will get suspended and tagged as an undesirable and for pete's sake don't let them stick out their index finger and thumb in the shape of a L and point it at anyone or they will be sent to jail.
Boy has this country and our schools gone to hell.
Jim
Wait, no more water pistols, no more American history about the revolutionary war or civil war, no more stories of how we won the west, no more books about Jesse James or Bonnie & Clyde or Bill the Kid, no more information about Medal of Honor winners or how our fathers saved us from world domination during WWII or grandfathers in WWI. Oh my goodness, no more Lone Ranger or Hopalong Cassidy or Roy Rogers and please tell me that they aren't getting rid of John Wayne's history. No more BB guns or pellet rifles or hunting stories, or Danial Boone or (for our Texas friends) the Alamo.
Well you get the idea. It will be a much safer world if these kids turn in their cap guns and go play Battlefield or Call of Duty or anyone of a hundred first person shooters on their TV's. Just make sure the kids don't exchange any information about their game playing at school or they will get suspended and tagged as an undesirable and for pete's sake don't let them stick out their index finger and thumb in the shape of a L and point it at anyone or they will be sent to jail.
Boy has this country and our schools gone to hell.
Jim
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Will they remove each child's thumb and index finger?
Texan Scott
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Shame, on you Sgt R... you can't give a child a rubber band gun! He could glorify violence AND shoot his eye out! Rubber band guns are the reason 90% of American men over 30 are blind in one eye!
Nothing wrong with Pop Tarts, tho. Or Froot Loops. Good healthy diet for children, as long as they don't chew them into L shapes.
Nothing wrong with Pop Tarts, tho. Or Froot Loops. Good healthy diet for children, as long as they don't chew them into L shapes.
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""Playing with toys guns, saying 'I'm going to shoot you,' desensitizes them, so as they get older, it's easier for them to use a real gun," Hill said."
I'd like to see some real empiricle data on this... To me it doesnt make sence. I would actually bet to wager that having toy guns and playing in that manor would fascilitate the opposite effect. For a few reasons. One, if you had a toy gun, at the very least someone cared about you enough to buy you a toy. Two, it adds to the taboo of shooting someone because the reason a toy gun is a toy is because the real thing is far to dangerous to play with. At this point I just think this person is vomitting information that they think is true, to serve their own agenda.
I'd like to see some real empiricle data on this... To me it doesnt make sence. I would actually bet to wager that having toy guns and playing in that manor would fascilitate the opposite effect. For a few reasons. One, if you had a toy gun, at the very least someone cared about you enough to buy you a toy. Two, it adds to the taboo of shooting someone because the reason a toy gun is a toy is because the real thing is far to dangerous to play with. At this point I just think this person is vomitting information that they think is true, to serve their own agenda.
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Lost Sheep
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Sentryau2 in post #5 has a good idea.
So the twig is bent, so the tree will grow.
10 year olds of today (who are taught that guns are to be shunned or are useful) are the voters of the next decade.
As far as illegal is concerned, the First Amendment kind of gets in the way of that. But it is not illegal to promote the other side, either.
Lost Sheep
We do want children to think guns are cool. The same way we want them to think seat belts, fire extinguishers and life jackets are cool.
So the twig is bent, so the tree will grow.
10 year olds of today (who are taught that guns are to be shunned or are useful) are the voters of the next decade.
As far as illegal is concerned, the First Amendment kind of gets in the way of that. But it is not illegal to promote the other side, either.
Lost Sheep
That's right, hoplodigitomy will be the #1 violence-eradication procedure for the new century, mandated by executive decree. Lobotomy and electrical shock had been seriously considered as alternatives, but were determined to be redundant due to the effectiveness of the modern school curriculum.
Sadly, I would not be surprised it this has been looked into in a gubment study.
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School Runs Toy Gun Buyback Program
I had to double check to see whether this was the Onion.
More here: http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23406433/hayward-school-sponsors-toy-gun-exchange
I had to double check to see whether this was the Onion.
More here: http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23406433/hayward-school-sponsors-toy-gun-exchange
All of the time that he's wasting on political indoctrination could be put towards ensuring that the children in his school receive the proper educational tools that they'll need to succeed in society. That alone will greatly lessen the chances of them progressing towards illegal and violently illegal behavior.
These progressives truly don't understand how their apathy and lack of genuine compassion negatively affects children's futures.
These progressives truly don't understand how their apathy and lack of genuine compassion negatively affects children's futures.
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This is simply another example of the phenomenon I've been describing for a while now, and represents what I believe is the most serious long-term threat to the future of gun ownership in this country. That is:
Take our youth while they are still in their formative and impressionable years, then model behavior to them that helps them to develop anti-gun values. In essence, socialize our youth to believe that guns are a problem, and that only bad people have guns.
In a decade or so all of these children will be voting too. And, it isn't like this phenomenon just started today. The next generation of voters are being groomed to develop anti-gun beliefs. It's really that simple.
Take our youth while they are still in their formative and impressionable years, then model behavior to them that helps them to develop anti-gun values. In essence, socialize our youth to believe that guns are a problem, and that only bad people have guns.
In a decade or so all of these children will be voting too. And, it isn't like this phenomenon just started today. The next generation of voters are being groomed to develop anti-gun beliefs. It's really that simple.
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