Re: Kiddie exercises his right to bear arms

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:29:58 GMT, Morton Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Jeffrey C. Dege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Again, a second-rate alternative to having the kid watch it himself.
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>> Kids see too much nonsense on television, already.
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>Yeah. They see people get shot - then they see them do live interviews and
>other shows. They see movie characters get shot through the hand, for
>example, and then use that hand in a fight or to hold a gun or knife. Just
>don't happen that way in real life.

Yep.  They need to pick up the pieces, as they help you clean up.
So they understand the irreversibility of the consequences.  And walking
downrange, for the first time, knowing there are guns back at the shooting
line, provides solid reinforcement for the lesson that when there are
guns around, you need to make sure that _everyone_ knows the safety rules.

-- 
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words;
on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
                --James D. Nicoll