Toy guns?

[dai-atlas2000]

I suspected that someone would ask this...should have known it'd be you SG!

Well as you all know the nucleated family isn't always a workable affair. Families split up, kids run away, rebel against their parent's and their parent's ideals. I don;t honestly think that it is fair to rest the blame of misbehaved children solely at the doorsteps of their parents.

What about families where a parent has died/ abandoned the other parent to single-parent-hood, e.g - a single young mother struggling to bring up a family and maintain a paying job...is it her fault if a son/daughter goes off the rails...in this situation, and ones like this, you can't blame "bad parenting"...

Children can have a tendency to do the opposite to what their parnets simply because parents are seen as "sad", "old" and "uncool" - everyone's gone through this phase - can you blame parents for this?

I think that you will find that in a large percentage of families parents love andcare for their children and do everything they can to protect them - this doesn't necessarily mean that a parent can be there every hour of the day - nor does it mean that the child will always listen. Especially now that so many different mediums affect the thougths and motivations of their lives - the internet, televsion, etc. I mean, anyone could find out how to do anything on the internet if they know where to look...pornography, how to make explosives, hacking, etc - how can you blame parents for this, when a vast majority of parents still underestimate and have little understanding of what the internet truely is???

I realise that I've talked for a quite a bit there, so I'll stop talking now, but I really think that you stop and think before laying the blame at one door, without realising that a WIDE variety of factors are to blame for the motivations and actions of children, especially when it comes to violence-related activities...

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[Brawn]

Originally posted by Starscreamsghost:

Off Topic...

So I guess your mod powers now give you rights to use avatars?? huh...huh?

Now your big time! Wheee...


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[Denyer]

Originally posted by Brawn:
So I guess your mod powers now give you rights to use avatars?? huh...huh?

also OT: nope, just an HTML custom rank which was given to us earlier this evening...

[sprites touch]

Popularity of guns among children isn't so much the problem, as the lack of children understanding the real danger guns pose.
Israel is a place where you live under semi-martial law, terrorisem happens sadly on daily basis, and every 18 year old male is called to serve, as a kid both my dad and older brother brought an M16 home from the army, I was shown the gun, and in a way I did think it was a neat toy, with all the parts and the way it looked, but I was told it's dangerous and not to touch it. at 18 I was in the army, and learned to use m16, galil and an Uzi. I wasn't in any combat position, all army personel(inculuding women) have to learn how to use a gun during their most basic training, and. Kids here are encoueged at school through tradition and ceremony, to serve their country, to be patriotic, and even to die a glorious death(which never is glorious) for the country. the soldiers in the stories are brave and outnumbered. war isn't glorious, but what boy in his right mind would choos to die or see his friends die, if his mind isn't preapered from an early age?
Society (not pointing a blaming finger here) encourges males to be aggresive, decisive and use their brawn insted their breain, it overlooks violance when it is convinient, and as a resolt, there are alot of "inconveniant" cases of violance, murder, rape, obuse. there isn't a simple solution( if there is one at all) but I think that educating people is important, and making sure that kids and adults understand what's going around them.

p.s
anytime I'm in the army and I get a gun, I do find it mechanicly fun(and I did score good points at the firing range) , but I ALWAYS make sure it's unloaded, it's a bad habbit to play with a gun, and I couldn't bring myself to shoot someone to save my own life or atleast I hope so.

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