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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:20:12 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter Callaway writes:
> This also reminds me of another very pointed scene from Terminator 2 when
> Laura watches the little kids running around (were they in New Mexico or
> somewhere deserty like that?) "shooting" at each other with toy guns. She says
> something like "There's no hope for us, is there?" or something like that. It
> doesn't matter that the next couple of scenes involve her turning that guys
> house into Swiss cheese with a M-16 ;-)
I understand your point, but to nitpick, it's Sarah's son who observes that
"there's no hope," and in fact when she's confronted with the horror of her
own violence (a la Swiss cheesing), she breaks down and finds that she can't
murder an innocent. Interestingly, the only people who die in T2 are slain by
the evil T1000, and Arnold himself only shoots (with bullets) one security
guard, and only in the legs.
All of this aside, I can't help reflecting that I played with toy guns all
the time as a child, and in fact my dad and I used to enact sizable battles
with his Britains figures and Solido military vehicles. Despite this, I've
never shot anyone nor used a gun in anger. I'm just not convinced that the
representation of guns in toy form inclines a child to view a real gun as a
toy, at least, not automatically. This is not to deny anyone the right to
raise her child as she sees fit, but, to me, the "toy-guns-breed-violence"
angle is a little too clean-cut to be realistic.
Dave!
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| (...) You might be right. It was the policy when I was raised, and it's the policy in our house now. But it could be just coincidence that I came out OK (??), and my kids seem to be tracking (but it's early) to come out OK too. So who knows... (for (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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| (...) To further nitpick your nitpick, I thought he kneecapped three of those SWAT guys and hit the last one in the back with the smoke-canister launcher. But your point is well made. It's been a while since I've seen T2. (...) I too had toy guns, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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| (...) This reminds me of the t-shirt that big bugger (played Jaws in a couple of Bond films with Roger Moore) wore in "Happy Gilmore" which said "Guns don't kill people. I do!" That cracked me up. But on a serious note, I tend to agree with your (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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