Ask my Mom, ask my kids, ask my husband. I have always had a "thing" against guns. I know I'm opening myself up to all kinds of hate from the NRA, hunting folks, but really, I don't give a crap. I have never purchased my kids toy guns because, well, mostly I think that there are SOOOOO many other fun things out there for them to play with, why encourage THAT. I have not ever "forbid" them to play with other kids' toy guns because I am a realist and I know they would anyway. I have always just VERY LOUDLY voiced my displeasure with them. Low and behold, they now think that toy guns for small children are highly "inappropriate." (Job well done, thank you very much)
I know the whole "right to bare arms" argument. And I agree that our forefathers had best intentions in mind when they said that. I don't, however think that they had any idea that uzzi's and other automatic and semi-automatic weapons were possible. They wanted to make sure that America could arm itself against hostile take-overs etc. They did not (I'm just guessing here) mean that we should be killing each other by the tens of thousands for things like shoes and bad driving habits. I don't deny the right to bare arms, I do, however have a problem with the right for any ass-hole to own an uzzi (or whatever).
Anyway, off my soap box and onto the funny part. If you agree with what I've said, you will enjoy this. If you don't agree, you will either have gone away by now, leave me some nasty comment, or if you are a really smart and violent person, you will try to hack my blog. Whatever. This is for the people in the first group:
I am definitely with you on this one--but don't you mean BEAR arms? (bare arms are great in sunny weather!)
Posted by: Margaret | December 09, 2006 at 05:46 PM