California schoolchildren lined up Saturday to trade in their guns — the toy kind, made out of plastic.
In exchange for the colorful toy firearms, Strobridge Elementary School students received books and a chance to win a new bike, Bay News 9 reports.
Strobridge’s principal, Charles Hill, said the Castro Valley school held the exchange because he thinks playing with toy guns increases the chance of children using real ones when they grow up.
Nice – raising a generation of repressed boys who will go nuts when they do get their hands on weapons.
A sane society would teach children how to handle weapons safely and respect them.
Do children who play violent video games grow up to be more violent too, should we ban those…
Yes, and no.
Libs are not sane.
My first plastic gun was the age old dart gun with rubber tipped darts. Fortunately the rubber could be removed to make them more effective in battle. Sounds like they are also influencing them to play the lotto when they grow up.
Growing up in the 1950’s no one had a problem with kids playing “guns”. Our parents made sure we knew the difference between toy guns and real guns. We were taught to NEVER point a real gun at anyone over and over and over….
These days everyone seems ok with boys playing with dolls, but OMG! when it comes to toy guns.
You have to let kids express themselves, and work out all that energy of youth, and learn–and just teach them to be fair, no matter what the game is, to respect themselves and the other kids, as well as to respect adults. When we were kids, and played with toy guns, we didn’t pretend to slaughter people indiscriminately on the street, we played good guys and bad guys, and it was part of the unwritten code that the bad guy had to lose. Above and beyond all the play, no matter how rowdy, were the concepts of respect and fairness–and so we always had our own rules, we policed ourselves. That principal, and the Insane Left in general, doesn’t believe in internalized self-rule, based upon just a few learned and general moral rules, but in exerting tight control over all thought, by those who consider themselves superior, and immune to being human–as in the human child’s need to play, inevitably without constant adult supervision and restraint.
Prisoners are free to roam anywhere in their cells that they like. 😉
This blog has an idea why the school is buying back plastic guns.
http://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2013/06/theres-something-little-fanatical-about.html
Indoctrination at its finest.
“Strobridge’s principal, Charles Hill, said the Castro Valley school held the exchange because he thinks playing with toy guns increases the chance of children using real ones when they grow up.”
It’s true! I use real guns now! Eeeeeek!