Toy guns are still on the shelves... [View all]

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I was at the local "Big Lots" this afternoon, and saw they still have toy guns for sale.

One of the bigger sellers they have is this "Cabela" videogame, the player goes on an imaginary hunt for big game, and shoots at the game with a plastic gun.

Added to this "big game hunt" is another game with a plastic shotgun, only instead of shooting big game, the player shoots zombies.

I didn't have anything like that when I was growing up, but we played "War."

And when we had plastic guns, we always had arguments.
"I shot you!" "No you missed!"

One of the guys in our group found a bunch of those BB guns like Ralphie in "A Christmas Story" wanted.
They were old and so the springs were getting bad, but the arguments stopped!
"OW!"
"Got ya!"

Not one of the guys in our neighborhood ever went on to be a mass killer, or such.

It looks like this CT shooter was really messed up, from day one.