And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It was a high-trust society, for the most part. Nowadays, kids pointing guns out of a car window are likely to get a face full of lead in return. Especially in certain areas, among certain demographics.
In the 50's everyone knew that the kid pointing a gun from the back seat was pointing a plastic toy gun. Can you really be sure that is the case today? I am a gun owner and I'm all for responsible gun ownership. In the 50's there were 50 million guns in civilian hands today it are over 400 million. Can you certify that all 400 million guns are in responsible hands? On top of that gun manufacturers have spent decades marketing to kids so there are millions of kids out there that own guns today are you sure all those kids have responsible parents that have properly trained them? Not to mention the hundreds of shootings that were perpetrated by kids.
So, I'm not saying that I would immediately return fire if I saw a kid pointing a gun at me from the back of a wagon down the highway but I would certainly let that wagon drive away and make sure there are a few cars in between their car and mine.
We live in a medicated hellscape and these kids that are doing that are full of SSRI's. Point the blame to where it belongs, pharma and society writ large.
Yes, I can be sure it isn't a real gun. In the last 10 years in the US, how many 10-year-olds have fired a gun out of a moving vehicle? Possibly some, but it's statistically meaningless. Occasionally jet aircraft crash on highways too, but every time you see one while driving, do you initiate evasive maneuvers, or something?
There's prudence, and then there's being afraid of everything for no reason.
Society is imperfect, but then, it was imperfect in the 1950s, too.
Google is free. If you have been to an NRA meeting in the last 10 years you have seen it. Some even include comic type decorations. Here you go ghostsniper. You are welcome. https://www.henryusa.com/firearm-category/youth-models/ https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/103390-160219-us-firearms-industry-marketing-to-children-report https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/01/23/shot-2022-wee1-tactical-jr-15-rifle/
So did Trump, Bush, Grassley, Paul, etc. This has been a bipartisan effort.
Baby boomers and silent generation people grew up like this and they made sure today's kids didn't get the chance to do the same things. Even today baby boomers are a majority in congress. It is time for fresh blood and ideas to take over. These guys have all failed us and we can only hope that the people coming behind them are smarter (going for older people is not an option, they are all dead)
For cryin' out loud, man, Crack A Friggin' Book! The Gun Control Act was passed in 1968. Only 2 years' worth (out of 20) of Baby Boomers who ever lived were even eligible to vote by 1968. There were no Baby Boomers even born when the National Firearms Act was passed in 1934. There were almost no Baby Boomers allowed to vote when Gov. Reagan signed the Mulford Act instituting gun restrictions in California in 1967. When New York passed the Sullivan Act in 1911, the first Boomer wouldn't be born there for another 34 years!
So you can show your therapist on the doll where the Boomer touched you, but please stop spouting unhistorical nonsense as if it was factual. And please, punch your history teacher in the neck for failing to teach you how a calendar works, and get a refund on your diploma.
You've been getting hosed with gun control laws and bans for 114 years, at least. That's 34 years before the first Boomer was even born, and 55 years before any of them could vote for anyone, or anything.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbR7axof1wk
Yeah, if some limp wrist libtard saw the kid with his toy gun pointing at traffic behind his car, they'd call 9-1-1 and not only report "a terrorist aiming an assault rifle at them" but they'd report the parents for not strapping the kids into their seat.
3rd grade, Burgundy Farm School in Alexandria in sight of the Washington Monument, one of my classmates brought and M3-A1 "Grease Gun" submachine gun to school for show and tell. It was a WWII souvenir from just concluded war that his father had.
AFAIK, nobody knew he was bringing it. He just stood up "Look what I brought"
Ms Ropshaw, the teacher, was really cool. She took the gun, racked the slide to make sure it was unloaded and handed it back to him to talk about.
I also learned to shoot a .22 in 2nd grade there. Helluva school.
It was a high-trust society, for the most part. Nowadays, kids pointing guns out of a car window are likely to get a face full of lead in return. Especially in certain areas, among certain demographics.
ReplyDeleteIn the 50's everyone knew that the kid pointing a gun from the back seat was pointing a plastic toy gun. Can you really be sure that is the case today?
DeleteI am a gun owner and I'm all for responsible gun ownership. In the 50's there were 50 million guns in civilian hands today it are over 400 million. Can you certify that all 400 million guns are in responsible hands? On top of that gun manufacturers have spent decades marketing to kids so there are millions of kids out there that own guns today are you sure all those kids have responsible parents that have properly trained them? Not to mention the hundreds of shootings that were perpetrated by kids.
So, I'm not saying that I would immediately return fire if I saw a kid pointing a gun at me from the back of a wagon down the highway but I would certainly let that wagon drive away and make sure there are a few cars in between their car and mine.
We live in a medicated hellscape and these kids that are doing that are full of SSRI's. Point the blame to where it belongs, pharma and society writ large.
DeleteYes, I can be sure it isn't a real gun. In the last 10 years in the US, how many 10-year-olds have fired a gun out of a moving vehicle? Possibly some, but it's statistically meaningless. Occasionally jet aircraft crash on highways too, but every time you see one while driving, do you initiate evasive maneuvers, or something?
DeleteThere's prudence, and then there's being afraid of everything for no reason.
Society is imperfect, but then, it was imperfect in the 1950s, too.
- Kle.
"gun manufacturers have spent decades marketing to kids"
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Why did you lie like that?
Google is free. If you have been to an NRA meeting in the last 10 years you have seen it. Some even include comic type decorations.
DeleteHere you go ghostsniper. You are welcome.
https://www.henryusa.com/firearm-category/youth-models/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/103390-160219-us-firearms-industry-marketing-to-children-report
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/01/23/shot-2022-wee1-tactical-jr-15-rifle/
Shootin dem lousy commie basterds…
ReplyDeleteraised by the WW II generation.
ReplyDeleteWe used to do that out of the back of my Dad's MG. Because why couldn't several kids share a seat? Lmao.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't know how good we had it.
ReplyDeleteSchumer, Sanders, McConnell, Blumenthal, Biden, etc. all grew up like this, then did their utmost to destroy it.
So did Trump, Bush, Grassley, Paul, etc. This has been a bipartisan effort.
DeleteBaby boomers and silent generation people grew up like this and they made sure today's kids didn't get the chance to do the same things.
Even today baby boomers are a majority in congress. It is time for fresh blood and ideas to take over. These guys have all failed us and we can only hope that the people coming behind them are smarter (going for older people is not an option, they are all dead)
Sadly, I do have to admit it was bipartisan.
Delete@Anon 9:13,
DeleteFor cryin' out loud, man, Crack A Friggin' Book!
The Gun Control Act was passed in 1968. Only 2 years' worth (out of 20) of Baby Boomers who ever lived were even eligible to vote by 1968.
There were no Baby Boomers even born when the National Firearms Act was passed in 1934.
There were almost no Baby Boomers allowed to vote when Gov. Reagan signed the Mulford Act instituting gun restrictions in California in 1967.
When New York passed the Sullivan Act in 1911, the first Boomer wouldn't be born there for another 34 years!
So you can show your therapist on the doll where the Boomer touched you, but please stop spouting unhistorical nonsense as if it was factual.
And please, punch your history teacher in the neck for failing to teach you how a calendar works, and get a refund on your diploma.
You've been getting hosed with gun control laws and bans for 114 years, at least. That's 34 years before the first Boomer was even born, and 55 years before any of them could vote for anyone, or anything.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbR7axof1wk
Re: Aesop.
DeleteOK, boomer...
Sorry, I could not help myself.
Tom762
Aesop took his ass to the woodshed but good.
DeleteToo bad the retard won't learn from it, that's just the way they are.
tail gunner was almost enviable to "shotgun"
ReplyDeleteHis name is Tommy Thompson.
ReplyDeleteWell done sir, well done!
DeleteYeah, if some limp wrist libtard saw the kid with his toy gun pointing at traffic behind his car, they'd call 9-1-1 and not only report "a terrorist aiming an assault rifle at them" but they'd report the parents for not strapping the kids into their seat.
ReplyDeleteOnly things missing from today is the distorted crappy rap rattling the door panels and the cowardly dark tinted windows
ReplyDelete3rd grade, Burgundy Farm School in Alexandria in sight of the Washington Monument, one of my classmates brought and M3-A1 "Grease Gun" submachine gun to school for show and tell. It was a WWII souvenir from just concluded war that his father had.
ReplyDeleteAFAIK, nobody knew he was bringing it. He just stood up "Look what I brought"
Ms Ropshaw, the teacher, was really cool. She took the gun, racked the slide to make sure it was unloaded and handed it back to him to talk about.
I also learned to shoot a .22 in 2nd grade there. Helluva school.
https://burgundyfarm.org/
1953 was very different.
Ms Ropsahaw racked the slide.
DeleteOur folks knew. They really did.
We don't know shit. Sad!
Tom762
Go little buddy!
ReplyDeleteMy time may be coming near but I'm glad I was raised in the '50s. Gave me an unpleasant opinion of these '20s though.
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