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Kids and Guns in 1957 Pic

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My kids have toy guns and real guns. Although they don't actually maintain control of the real ones, I do.

They must be extraordinarily intuitive or maybe they are SuperKids (ya know, with super powers). Because they can play with one and when given the other they abandon all characteristics of playfulness.

It's crazy... they actually know one from the other.

I admit that I taught them the difference between a toy and a real firearm, so we can rule out that they have super powers of clairvoyance. They are just knowledgeable.

They know which ones can be pointed at someone in play, and which ones are never to be played with.

It's mind boggling how they know the difference.
 
JohnBT, we're nearly all dressed alike......must have been all the fashion back then. My brother and I, Christmas 1956.



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CoRoMo said:
It's mind boggling how they know the difference.
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Right.

...and you still have a problem when their muscle memory goes to the wrong default.
Your kids are running an nice tight OODA loop all the time though right?


My Son on examining a NERF revolver at a birthday party:
This is dumb. Those darts are too slow to kill anything with. I like the yellow and orange though. It would be good if you had to pee in the woods and had to put your "shooter" down.
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During the late 50's and early 60's the guys in ROTC used to carry their M1 Garand's on the city bus in KCMO. It was no big deal.
 
There was no problem where I lived in WV during the late 60's with having a shotgun or rifle hanging in the back window of your pickup while it was parked in the high school parking lot for some squirrel or rabbit hunting before or after school. I don't ever remember taking a gun into the school but I doubt anyone would of said anything had I done so. When in Junior High I used to cross through the elementary school yard to get to the woods where I hunted squirrel. Today I have to walk across the street when walking my dogs to prevent being on school property while carrying concealed. They kept telling me that those were my good ole days and now I see why.
 
Me, 1954:

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I know, I know...finger on the trigger...
:)

My grandfather took that gun away because I set his field on fire while I was cooking on a campfire. He knew that would be worse punishment than a beating. I never got the gun back, but I learned something about consequences.

Tinpig
 
Junior High School, 1957, small town in eastern Colorado. The science teacher sponsored a "Conservation Club." I could check out a club-owned .22 rifle for the weekend and buy standard velocity ammunition for $0.50 a box from the teacher. Just needed a note from my parents, and I couldn't take it home on the bus. I had toy guns and real ones at the same time, and never had a 'muscle memory" mistake. Ever. First .22 rifle of my own for Christmas when I was 8.

Scroll ahead 25 years. My son disliked his baby sitter (married mom with a small child, lived across the street) because she wouldn't let him and his friend pay "guns." A few years later, I was back in the old neighborhood. Her kid, then 7 or so, was playing with another boy who had an H&R .22 revolver, which I promoptly confiscated. Neither the mom nor the dad recognized a real gun when they say one. Just saying.
 
Unless you were black of course.

Or Hispanic.
Or Gay.
Or a non-christian.
Or the wrong kind of Christian.
Or Disabled in some way.
Or if your politics weren't strictly mainstream.

Or if you wanted to carry a pistol to protect yourself while traveling without fear of spending years in prison.
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Oh please. This is the kind of snide, cry in your low carb beer attitude that is making this a nation of babies.
For Pete's sake, we had a firing range at my school.
I grew up living with my grand parents and can still remember my grandfather taking me to the backyard and letting me shoot the barn door before he replaced it. And this was in the city.
My 9 year old daughter is more manly than a lot of men in the building I work in.
We unfortunately live in a world where women wear the pants in many families and the men carry purses.
Real men will be right next to cave men in the museum in 20 years at the rate we are going at.
 
When my dad was stationed in Leavenworth, we could take our cased shotguns to school (on base) with shells to shoot skeet after school. One friend, Tim, didn't have a case and carried his 870 in the box it came in....maybe 5 seconds to install the barrel and he was ready to go! Skeet was VERY expensive though so we usually only shot on Wednesdays...I think it was $0.25 per round.....but, we had to load the houses ourselves! What a terrible youth huh?

Nice pics folks....sure brings back good memories!
 
Sam I meant the in the sense of all the good things,The attitude your words reflect is exactly part of the problem today... Things Like sitting down at night having dinner with Your family ,like being able to go to bed at night and leave your doors unlocked and opened,a bottle of coke was .07 Cents and ya got 2 cents back for the Bottle,a pack of baseball cards were a Nickel and You got free bubblegum,Kids could go to the park all day by with friends without their parents worried about them strangled and Sodomized being found dead in a ditch somewhere.Oh yes and schools were safe then your biggest fear was getting in trouble with the principal and teachers.for chewing gum or running in the halls...Oh yes they not only were good times but relatively safe times and most of All Men were Men...and people were accountable for their Actions.
 
mr.scott said:
Oh please. This is the kind of snide, cry in your low carb beer attitude that is making this a nation of babies.
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What attitude is that?
You are aware that there are other people in this nation besides white protestant males right?

Babies? Who do you think I am? pppffft.

My kid doesn't play with toy guns. He has real guns.

We hunt with bow,blade and bullet. We raise most of our own veggies and slaughter and process all of our own meat. Has your child ever put a knife through a screaming porkers neck? Mine has.

We don't watch TV, don't even HAVE broadcast or subscription television.

My Wife is a Teacher and an Immigrant. My primary occupation is EMS.

Babies... pfffffffft. :rolleyes:
 
Airbrush Artist said:
Sam I meant the in the sense of all the good things,The attitude your words reflect is exactly part of the problem today... Things Like sitting down at night having dinner with Your family ,like being able to go to bed at night and leave your doors unlocked and opened,a bottle of coke was .07 Cents and ya got 2 cents back for the Bottle,a pack of baseball cards were a Nickel and You got free bubblegum,Kids could go to the park all day by with friends without their parents worried about them strangled and Sodomized being found dead in a ditch somewhere.Oh yes and schools were safe then your biggest fear was getting in trouble with the principal and teachers.for chewing gum or running in the halls...Oh yes they not only were good times but relatively safe times and most of All Men were Men...and people were accountable for their Actions.
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Rose tinted glasses, my friend.... and lack of a good inflation calculator and a lack of facts.
 
I am with Mr. Cade on this one. I enjoy living in a world that doesn't require my fellow men/women to enter from a different door or worry about someone setting their house on fire just because the color of their skin. However, this is not the thread for that. This is the thread for old people to recount their youth and enjoy their fond memories while pining for days that have passed and will never be again. Great pictures guys enjoy your memories.
 
Don't let "OLD PEOPLE " fool ya for one second ,especially the ones that are here at THR..Like I said 'You"ll Never Know....If You did The Sarcasm in Your words would not exists..as far as facts Sam its true, many of us LIVED THEM...
 
I'm not old, but I remember going dove hunting whe I was 12 or 13. Walking down the road in my camo with my Remington 870 16 gauge and no one ever freaked out. We walked to all of our hunting & fishing spots back then.

What destroyed that way of life? People moving from the city into the quiet rural areas carrying their fear of guns. You can still walk down the road with your gun, but don't be surprised if a cop drives by.

Even more sad, the places I grew up fishing are all posted. One place I fished for 30 years was recently leased to a guy from the city so he could duck hunt. It wouldn't be a big deal if he hadn't had posted it. I can't fish there anymore and it's pretty sad. It's my first memory of fishing with my brother and the man who taught us how to fish. He was in his 80's and was a good friend of the family.

Yeah, those days are gone forever. No cable tv, video games, internet or cell phones... Very peaceful and fun.
 
I went to a private middle school from 95-98. We were given a science project about natural disasters in 8th grade. I did mine on tsunamis. For the actual project I detonated a home made explosive made from crushed model rocket engine powder at the bottom of a large fish tank filled with water to demonstrate how the shock wave created waves that washed up on the shore at one end. I did this in class in front of my teacher. Got an A+. Try to imagine an 8th grader building what was essentially a small bomb for a science class and getting an A today.
 
I vividly remember standing in the parking lot in front of my small high school after school one day with my English teacher checking out his new Remington 700 30.06 and being awed by his optics ... obviously sighting thru the optics. Nowadays that would bring out the major law enforcement.
 
We used to carry our .22 rifles through town to the woods to go gopher and squirrel hunting. Lots of guffaws fromt he oldtimers if we returned empty handed. Don't see that anymore.
 
Great thread. I remember when I was 16, I got to fix up my dad's old Willis jeep. Used to drive it to school every day. During "bird season", my setter Dan would go with me every day. Everyone knew him and took care of him throughout the day. My 12 gauge Fox Sterlingworth double was in the jeep with my vest and ammo. Last bell rings and we are off and in the fiellds till dark. Man, if only my son could have ]just one of those days with me.
 
Some parents refuse to treat their kids like color blind apes that can't tell the difference between two objects that happen to be similarly shaped.
 
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