This is ridiculous. Sending your kids to a public school is clearly child abuse.
10 thoughts on “Finger Guns”
To paraphrase the last sentence: If fingers are outlawed, only outlaws will have fingers.
Just when you think school officials couldn’t prove themselves more stupid, one of them comes along and says, “Hold by soy latte and watch this.”
Mass school shootings, where more than 3 people were killed, were virtually unknown at the high schools and lower grade schools during the 50s through the 90s. That was when masses of neighborhood kids were playing “war” and “cops and robbers” on a weekly basis with tons of toy guns.
What changed?
When I was a kid we were reenacting the Civil War on the playground because it was the Centennial, with boys taking sides depending on where they were from. Virginia schools were still segregated then, so we didn’t have to contend with the real issues, and after desegregation (in Va. I think that lagged until 1964), there was in school segregation for the rest of my HS career. I only was ever in class with one black boy, whose father was a senior military officer, and a couple of girls who were really smart.
What, indeed, is wrong with Kansas?
I grew up in Missouri, and my Dad had a federal firearms license so that he could receive guns he purchased directly by mail. I got my first rifle (a 22 caliber Remington Targetmaster) when I was 10 years old, and took it with me to summer camp – where there was a regular rifle range, and kids my age and younger were taught to shoot. I had been shooting since I was 8, and could outdo everyone else. My Dad had taught me firearm safety from the get go. And every single one of those kids at camp learned the same thing.
That was back in 1964. What I didn’t realize until recently was that it was probably illegal for me to have owned a rifle back then. Missouri gun laws were actually quite restrictive. Concealed carry was absolutely forbidden for a 128 year period, which ended in 2017. That’s when Missouri adopted permitless concealed carry. Talk about a sea-state change!
But back in the 1960s, kids were taught how to handle firearms safely, and I never heard of a single accidental injury or death – and never any school shooting. The situation today is awful. People need to know how to safely handle firearms, and in areas where the murder rate is high, need to be able to carry to defend themselves.
I don’t know, but I’d guess that that Missouri law was to prevent the darkies from being armed, as most gun-control laws were, historically.
Yes, historically it was to keep both blacks and Mormons from being armed.
In the 1960s kids were taught how to handle guns safely and effectively so that they could grow up to be responsible citizens. Now kids are encouraged to play shoot em up video games with no connection to real firearms or firearm safety and therefore cannot grow up to be responsible citizens. Only psychotic victims of bad parenting to be treated not as citizens but clinical subjects deserving of intervention.
I hate to say this, but the author is completely insensitive to finger gun victims around the world. A few years back, I was shot multiple times with a finger gun. As I lay, pantomiming bleeding imaginary blood all over the place, wondering aloud what the imaginary afterlife would be like, and telling Mom I loved her, I got real lucky. The other kid turned out to be a medic and patched up my boo boos.
The emotional scars have never left me. Now I read of this heinous mass finger shooting in a classroom and wonder – from the comfort of my fainting couch – where will this all end, if we don’t stop it now?
To paraphrase the last sentence:
If fingers are outlawed, only outlaws will have fingers.
Just when you think school officials couldn’t prove themselves more stupid, one of them comes along and says, “Hold by soy latte and watch this.”
Mass school shootings, where more than 3 people were killed, were virtually unknown at the high schools and lower grade schools during the 50s through the 90s. That was when masses of neighborhood kids were playing “war” and “cops and robbers” on a weekly basis with tons of toy guns.
What changed?
When I was a kid we were reenacting the Civil War on the playground because it was the Centennial, with boys taking sides depending on where they were from. Virginia schools were still segregated then, so we didn’t have to contend with the real issues, and after desegregation (in Va. I think that lagged until 1964), there was in school segregation for the rest of my HS career. I only was ever in class with one black boy, whose father was a senior military officer, and a couple of girls who were really smart.
What, indeed, is wrong with Kansas?
I grew up in Missouri, and my Dad had a federal firearms license so that he could receive guns he purchased directly by mail. I got my first rifle (a 22 caliber Remington Targetmaster) when I was 10 years old, and took it with me to summer camp – where there was a regular rifle range, and kids my age and younger were taught to shoot. I had been shooting since I was 8, and could outdo everyone else. My Dad had taught me firearm safety from the get go. And every single one of those kids at camp learned the same thing.
That was back in 1964. What I didn’t realize until recently was that it was probably illegal for me to have owned a rifle back then. Missouri gun laws were actually quite restrictive. Concealed carry was absolutely forbidden for a 128 year period, which ended in 2017. That’s when Missouri adopted permitless concealed carry. Talk about a sea-state change!
But back in the 1960s, kids were taught how to handle firearms safely, and I never heard of a single accidental injury or death – and never any school shooting. The situation today is awful. People need to know how to safely handle firearms, and in areas where the murder rate is high, need to be able to carry to defend themselves.
I don’t know, but I’d guess that that Missouri law was to prevent the darkies from being armed, as most gun-control laws were, historically.
Yes, historically it was to keep both blacks and Mormons from being armed.
In the 1960s kids were taught how to handle guns safely and effectively so that they could grow up to be responsible citizens. Now kids are encouraged to play shoot em up video games with no connection to real firearms or firearm safety and therefore cannot grow up to be responsible citizens. Only psychotic victims of bad parenting to be treated not as citizens but clinical subjects deserving of intervention.
I hate to say this, but the author is completely insensitive to finger gun victims around the world. A few years back, I was shot multiple times with a finger gun. As I lay, pantomiming bleeding imaginary blood all over the place, wondering aloud what the imaginary afterlife would be like, and telling Mom I loved her, I got real lucky. The other kid turned out to be a medic and patched up my boo boos.
The emotional scars have never left me. Now I read of this heinous mass finger shooting in a classroom and wonder – from the comfort of my fainting couch – where will this all end, if we don’t stop it now?