“It makes them too comfortable, holding that gun,” said Leonard Lane, president of Fathers Armed Together to Help, Educate, Restore and Save. “Then there’s no fear holding the real gun when they get older. We want to put that fear back into our children, teaching them what guns can do, how they affect their community.”Let me explain it to you, Lennie. If you encourage tomorrow’s presumably law-abiding citizens to avoid taking responsibility for their own safety by making them afraid of the tools that are available for their self-defense, then an unnecessarily high proportion of them are ultimately going to die at the hands of criminals who neither share your fear of guns, nor are disposed toward observing the laws – however stringent – governing their possession.
What’s next for Buffalo, I wonder? Teaching kids to avoid crossing the street altogether? Mandatory training wheels on bicycles for anyone under 16, regardless of skill? Replacing “dangerous” sports like football with badminton? Excellent preparation for their lives in the Servile State.
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We are becoming a nation of sheep.
Yeah, it's amazing how nannified we are.
I suppose the Michigan pharmacist that was fired by Walgreens for pulling a gun to defend himself against two armed robbers, should have been taught to play possum, instead.
That's a good name for people like those in "FATHERS"....Possums. If threatened, they can just roll over, and play dead. And hope for the best.
I wonder how many of the "FATHERS" still let their teenagers blow people away in violent video games?
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the Population Acquiesces to Criminal Operatives.
F.A.T.H.E.R.S.
more like:
F.A.T.H.E.A.D.S.
Also, 'load' before pulling the trigger is often advantageous.
Cheers
Steve: "Fatheads", indeed!
Replacing "dangerous" sports is already taking place. In an eastern school district, gymnastics was removed after some kids were not only hurt but killed. They also made it mandatoy that the kids wear gloves for the rope climb lest they get rope burn.
Bike sales must be down in Buffalo.
If everyone is afraid of guns, then who will become law enforcement and military?
Deborah Leigh
If everyone is afraid of guns, then who will become law enforcement and military?
If you believe, like FATHERS, there'll no longer be a need for police or armies. No one will have guns, so there'll be no more violence or crime.
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Snort. Guess they'd pee themselves if they saw the pictures in the local papers of the bucks that lil' primary school kids shoot with their own rifles every year around here.
Seven-year-old grandson is begging my son to take him hunting this year along with his cousin, my lovely 9-year-old granddaughter.
"A toy gun today, a real gun tomorrow"
That's just moronic. "Don't give your kid a superman cape because a decade later he may think he can really fly"
I wonder if he's ever seen kids play with Hot Wheels cars? Yikes. A toy car today, a real car doing a loop the loop and jumping off into a wall tomorrow.
When I was a kid, my father got my older brother and me a pair of old Lee-Enfield rifles and about 40 dummy cartridges. We proceeded run around the neighborhood with them to defend the neighborhood (and the planet) from Nazis, Commies, robots and turtle people from Neptune.
It was always clear what was a toy and what was not. To this day, my brother, myself and all the other kids who played with us have yet to murder anyone. Assuming a kid lacks the moral agency to not murder people is setting expectations a little low.
What's next you ask? A while back, I heard on the BBC that while rioters roamed the streets and buildings burned, someone made a gun gesture with his hand towards 3 "police community support officers", was arrested and within days he was sentenced to 4 months. The bureaucracy's priorities are mostly concerned with the bureaucracy. I assume if he'd said "K-pow! K-pow!" then he might get a stiffer sentence.
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