Reply #17: Interesting counter, but I think you oversimplify

[TPaine7]

You've failed to understand the main reason toy guns are banned in schools: So they won't be mistaken for real guns. You've also failed to mention that toy knives and pocketknives are also banned in schools.

Chicken strips and "L" shaped pieces of paper cannot reasonably be mistaken for guns. Either that, or legally blind teachers need to let their sighted counterparts make all of the gun safety calls.

I do think that America tends to sactimonious extremes. We impress upon our kids that sex and violence are bad. Period. A more sane approach is to teach them that UNPRINCIPLED sex and violence are bad, and an unhealthy obsession with sex or violence can destroy one's life.

Principled violence is a very good thing, and not only when engaged in by "authorities." It used to be celebrated as heroism.

Now children grow up hearing vacuous platitudes, like "violence never solves anything." In saner times, children (and even their teachers) knew that violence has solved issues like the world's Hitler problem.