Kid Toys
A nerd website is all butthurt because kids like to play with toys. The FBI agent play set has handcuffs and a baton. I think they’re reading a bit too much into it. Newsflash: kids like toys. They like toy guns, but we don’t hand them real ones to play with without supervision. They like toy cars, and we don’t let them drive. They like battle monster type toys, and we don’t send them to cock fights. Lighten up, Francis.
December 9th, 2011 at 10:13 am
One day one of these kids will save your life.
Then again, maybe we won’t.
December 9th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Kids instinctively like play that mimics their parents, and they instinctively like just games (such as cops fighting bad guys).
How do kids get indoctrinated into the liberal mindset? Is there a point where they start enjoying school lectures about class warfare and community organizing? Is Model U.N. popular anywhere?
December 9th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Oh the horror!
December 9th, 2011 at 11:06 am
I think when there is fear, common sense, reality or even fact doesn’t penetrate from the mind into the heart.
When I was anti gun, I did not let my kids play with any kind of gun to include something they might have made with a stick.
Even after I became a gun totin’ mama, I still would not let my children play with guns.
My ignorance was fueled by my fear and that fear overrode any argument that was made to me.
The more I learned and experienced the more I realized that while a child’s mind is certainly malleable and can be influenced, children are not turned into killers by toys or make believe the play.
If they are not some how deranged then any effect environment might play in the role of making a killer comes from lack of love, nurturing, abuse, etc.
My kids have water guns, toy guns, play shooting games, they shoot real guns, and the other day they even made guns out of the wishbone from that nights dinner, but absolutely nothing has changed about who they are.
They are still the same loving, sweet, gentle kids they have always been raised to be.
December 9th, 2011 at 11:58 am
I think it would be even funnier if the badge said “Police State” on it. Or you can make it multi functional by adding a blindfold and the ID card could say “Offical ATF Background Checker”.
December 9th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
I taught my kids early and often that there was a difference between toys and tools. Toys were to be used in games, tools were to be used for doing the job for which they were designed.
They could use the stuffed animals to make a herd of cattle and move them from the range (the living room) to the railhead (the kitchen). They could kill all the Barbies and Kens they had with stuffed animal monsters. They could even dismember their toys and rebuild them, to make their own hybrid Elmo with Stretch Armstrong limbs.
What they could not do was play with a hammer and a nail. They could practice using any tool, pounding nails into scrap wood and eventually making bird feeders and toy boats out of bits and pieces, under my supervision.
They understood the distinction very well from quite an early age. I never got shot with a nail from a pneumatic nail gun., I never had to tell my daughter not to use the circular saw to open her brother’s skull. I never found my hand saw being used in a washtub band. I never discovered they were accessing my guns behind my back, and yes, I set up indicators to check.
Kids are smart. Treat them to high expectations and they will generally meet or exceed them.
December 9th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Pretty cool tac vest. Now I’m just waiting for people to start using that same playset in Robberies
December 9th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
I’m surprised no one has come up with a kid’s TSA Kit, complete with rubber gloves.
December 9th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
You ask, we answer:
http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3172-Security-Check-Point/dp/B0002CYTL2
Rubber gloves apparently not included, however.
I will bet that any child playing with this will immediately start acting like Neo and Trinity in their experience with building security: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjUAJXDfj54
Google “Neo in Lobby” if the link disappears in future.
December 9th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
I’ve always been pro gun, but I wouldn’t let my son play with toy ones until I thought he was old enough to start appreciating the safety rules (which was not that old, really) and now that I’ve been able to teach him some, and had him through hunter education and such, I wouldn’t hesitate to leave a loaded one within his reach. The mystery and fascination have been removed.