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toy gun commercials.... how did we survive?
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I'm thinking a part of me DIDN'T survive! Mostly my mental part......
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The snowflake kids of today would melt if they grew up when I did. You were tough or stayed at home on the porch.
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Kids today need weapons and a group of them to pick a fight when i grew up it was one on one you beat the crap out of each other then it was over these kids today come back and shoot you if you lose idiots
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I think when we grew up with toy guns and played with them, we developed more respect for the real thing. If your into firearms or not the fact remains the same. When I attended Catholic high school we even had a gun club, which was run by some of the lay teachers and fathers of the students. Times have changed and not for the best. Cheap firearms have flooded the market. Now idiots who should never be allowed to even look at a gun own many. I have nothing against owning firearms, it's the bad apples who possess them
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We had the Agent Zero M "Snap Shot" camera that snapped into a pistol.
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I drank water out of a garden hose
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Some how guns, drugs and not accepting lose don't mix well.
What a pathetic situation metal health care has created.
Yea blame someone else.
I am only responsible for my own actions. Why is that so hard to understand?
What a pathetic situation metal health care has created.
Yea blame someone else.
I am only responsible for my own actions. Why is that so hard to understand?
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i just did 10 minutes ago..... from a well, in nj
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Everyone knows that's Kurt Russell right? Yes, still drinking from a hose. Our guns were never locked up. We had too much respect for them to take them down from the gun rack.
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I had a ".45 Caliber" cap pistol that had a heavy hammer that never failed to blast each and every cap, lot's of fun.
If you watch cartoons, either now or in the past, you have to admit 90% of the action is/was violent. None of that seemed to have much of a negative effect on our generation of youngsters growing up in the '50's, '60's and 70's. Funny thing is, when it comes to human behavior, NO ONE is an expert.
We all drank water out of the hose. Remember the soda dispensing machines that had the built-in tri-angular can opener with a handle to press that would punch open the solid topped cans? Those things were never washed or disinfected.
If you watch cartoons, either now or in the past, you have to admit 90% of the action is/was violent. None of that seemed to have much of a negative effect on our generation of youngsters growing up in the '50's, '60's and 70's. Funny thing is, when it comes to human behavior, NO ONE is an expert.
We all drank water out of the hose. Remember the soda dispensing machines that had the built-in tri-angular can opener with a handle to press that would punch open the solid topped cans? Those things were never washed or disinfected.
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Cowboys and Indians ? Found some of the old plastic ones they were about two inches tall.
I had the tommy gun and an air rifle and didn't lose an eye .
The cap gun that resembled the police gun .
Also drank from the hose the old man encouraged it when you were outside and hot .
I agree most kids today will never know the imagination we had growing up .
I had the tommy gun and an air rifle and didn't lose an eye .
The cap gun that resembled the police gun .
Also drank from the hose the old man encouraged it when you were outside and hot .
I agree most kids today will never know the imagination we had growing up .
BB gun fights with the neighbor kids 
my old man told me to put a few drops of 3-1 oil in my daisy after he stretched the spring a little for me.
That thing would put a welt on you.
my old man told me to put a few drops of 3-1 oil in my daisy after he stretched the spring a little for me.
That thing would put a welt on you.
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Some douchebag always makes it out to be the gun's fault
You'll shot your eye out Ralphy
You'll shot your eye out Ralphy
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Grew up watching Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger and many others. Gun fights, fist fights on every episode and they never killed anyone. They taught respect for one another, bad guys always lose, and respect for the law.
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The kid in the second commercial (Sonic Blaster) looked like Patrick Swayze.
I liked how they dressed the kid in the last commercial with the Tommy gun. A real Gangsta!
I remember most of them
At the earliest age, I recall I (and all the kids in the neighborhood) knew that toy guns were toys and for play/pretend. I had a few and knew the comfort that I would not -indeed- kill my brother or neighbor with one. And that fact was what gave hours of enjoyment for all of us.
When I got a BB gun the whole game changed for the seek and hunt part of "playing" war. It was no longer fun to -play fight- because a good hit stopped the fun cold.--Game over and the learning activity was done.
Today the young kids tend to play the same games we did but with a game controller in front of a monitor. --Instead of running through backyards with toy guns. --A lot of the fun with lots of blood and play dying knowing that it is all fake as we did back in my day.
So- What has changed in the big picture?---Less exercise for today's kids?-- Feeding bill reduced?--Reduced cost for raising kids?- Green kids?
When I got a BB gun the whole game changed for the seek and hunt part of "playing" war. It was no longer fun to -play fight- because a good hit stopped the fun cold.--Game over and the learning activity was done.
Today the young kids tend to play the same games we did but with a game controller in front of a monitor. --Instead of running through backyards with toy guns. --A lot of the fun with lots of blood and play dying knowing that it is all fake as we did back in my day.
So- What has changed in the big picture?---Less exercise for today's kids?-- Feeding bill reduced?--Reduced cost for raising kids?- Green kids?
feeding bill reduced --what cont. do you come from. they eat twice as much as we ate and are "still hungry " all the time
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