HereWeGoAgain
Diamond Member
Excellent point here OP.
But the larger question is -- why does a kid want to run around with a gun in the first place, toy or not? What's his motivation? Who sold him these values?
Who indeed -- gun fetishists here keep telling me "we don't have a gun culture".
Watch this --
Stupefying, innit? Did they actually think there would be no consequences? How do you like the reactions of the cops here?
Spiritual values, as taught by our world. That's severely fucked up. And then we act surprised when it's acted out.
Why is it that we didnt have all these shootings back in those days?
Hell,video games are way worse than any war games we played as kids,maybe you should go after them?
Obviously because those are little kids --- the target audience as well as the actors. They needed time to grow up. How'd that all work out, ten, twenty, thirty years later?
That's when you indoctrinate values -- in childhood. The question is, why are we indoctrinating these values? Who came up with the idea that it's 'cool' to shoot and kill things? And what the hell were/are we doing when that value is sold to children?
We get the idea of toys, right? They're not just time-killers, they're educational tools. We gave girls dolls and toy stoves, we gave boys guns. That's telling the kid "here's what your role is when you grow up".
Kids have played Cowboys and Indians,cops and robbers and army for generations.
If you find them scary as a male you're missing some chromosomes.