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Boy you telegraphed that move!

No one is executed in an abortion.

The only thing this would accomplish is suicide by cop.

I saw Roy Rogers a little bit on TV when I was lit-
tle, but not much. But I do remember a "Rifleman"
episode when I was (I think) about twelve, when a
boy was accidentally killed with a gun; the "Rifle-
man (Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Connors)'s son, Mark, wouldn't have anything to
do with guns for almost the rest of the episode,
but in the end realized he had been blaming the
rifle, instead of its operator. A good lesson a-
bout the gun control debate, a few years ahead
of its time.

Give me a break. Sickening? Hardly! We were A whole lot better society then now. .There was honor and understanding of discipline, we were real patriots. we worked for what we had.

I remember caps. Then they invented these red rings of little plastic cups that worked in a toy revolver. Very loud, and much more reliable than caps, but expensive. I really liked my little air-cork pop guns when I was very young. Think they were pump action. They stopped making them when I got a little older I think. Probably to save us from the violent cork projectiles.

Someone invented a similar thing made from PVC pipe and fittings that shot miniature marshmallows a few years ago. I got my kids those. They had a ball.

When $5.98 was a lot!

I grew up watching Roy Rogers with my Grandpa, who even took me to see Gene Autry in person. Gramps would come to our house with six guns and holsters like Dale or Roy had for me. None of my friends became criminals either. Roy was mild mannered and polite, those were values he encouraged in his viewers. Even today I have a photo of Roy and Trigger on the wall, and a collection, of dastardly six shooters which have a pop out knife instead of bullets - one for Roy, Gene, and several other cowboys of the era.Today they blame guns, but the cowboys of that era taught cowboy values: love of country, respect for women, honesty. How many parents who object to kids playing with toy guns teach their kids those values? It makes me sick how far we have fallen, and how stupid people are today.

I want one...

Whatever happened to 'cowboys and Indians' or 'bad guys' against 'good guys'. It was so simple then. Or was it?

Excellent!

That sounds pretty cool.

That's so cool!! What a great memento to have.

As I recall they had a belt buckle had a swing out Darenger. You just pushed your gut out and boom you did that dastardly dude in. Remember caps?

Boy's Life still lives and it was to my pleasant surprise during the first of my last two visits to my chiropractor.
It also turned about to be the most interesting magazine in the waiting room. Both times.

remember Boys' Life, from the scouts? -- j
.

and I have my Roy Rogers flashlight, still, to guide
my way. . we saw him here when I was a kid. -- j
.

Great idea for the States, where guns are a dime a dozen !

And, I would be willing to bet, more people have died and been seriously injured in the last few years by the use of cellphones and texting, than all of the deaths and injuries caused by toy guns over a much longer period. When will the be banned?

I remember my Roy Rogers Six-Shooters, I even had the holsters, the belt, and even the hat. Funny though, I sure don’t remember the hidden pistol in the hat commercial, or for sure I would have had one of those too. I wonder where my killer toys went, I don’t remember ever giving them away. I even played war games too, but of course we all had a different set of war weapons when we played. It was a sin to play war games with Cowboy toys.

One of the weirdest things is that I didn’t turn out to be a criminal or a mass murderer because I played with toy weapons for many years, and I don’t know of any of my friends that did either. We must have been some kind of special, or perhaps just exceptions to the new rules and mandated guidelines of today. Perhaps our brains were bigger than brains today, I just don’t have an explanation for it. However, in all honesty I must admit I actually did shoot a few people, and “shot at” a whole lot more of them. In fact, with the tools I had at my disposal I’m actually partially responsible for killing perhaps thousands of people. At least their deaths were the results of my commands. Was this because I played with these awful weapons as a kid? No, I think it was more because I was the Executive Officer of an 8” Howitzer and 175mm Gun Battery, and I gave the commands and the orders for fire missions. That was not because I played with guns as a kid, but because of the orders of my government when they sent me to Vietnam. And it was a long time after I had already given up my Roy Rogers Six-Shooters, even gave up my war toys a few years back. This to me shows the government is perhaps a lot more dangerous than the toys we played with. Actually the toys might have given me more incentive to go to Vietnam at that stage of my life, for my country, rather than relocating to Canada.

I think we also learned from experience while playing with these toys that we could get hurt and sometimes even hurt our friends. Taking them away, the youth of today only has real weapons to learn from, and real ones are much less forgiving than the toys. There are no take backs or sorry’ s. Taking away these toy weapons gives children a much better opportunity to stop wasting their youth playing with toy weapons and allows them more time to be really productive, and actually make a little money on the side, selling drugs and robbing businesses. Also not having any experience playing with toy guns, it gets them much more adrenalin and greater interest when they find a real one. My grandchildren all played with toy guns, and then they were trained in the use of real ones. Today they would not even think about the loaded gun laying on dad’s dresser unless they actually needed it. At least they would know how to use one should it ever be needed.

Those are just my opinions, I could be wrong.

Well, that was sickening. That's from a time when Indians were the bad guys and killing was the fun game to play. Interesting relic of our culture and some bad memes.