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I remember a couple of those cases. The defending police officer usually feels like he's accidentally run over his neighbor's kid.Toirtis said:
Times have changed...I remember kids bringing their hunting shotguns to wood shop to work on the stocks and fore-ends. Nobody thought any different about it.
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Heck they will leave a welt on covered skin! Hubby has one that doesn't look real at all. It stings like the dickens when shot in the butt! I don't know how many per second our shoots but it's alot. He's not allowed to play with it in our yard, the dogs think those things are treats! :thud:
Exactly... Times have changed.Native American said:
We used to be able to target practice with "real" guns on freshwater lakes and rivers from a boat, and no one would complain. There was also a certain, understood common sense, at least where I was target shooting. Now it's probably taking a chance at a felony charge if we did that...
To be sure, in court, you would be guilty and have to prove innocense!
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Sometimes, some might think the best of days are ...over....
(Is that politically correct? Can I say that?? ...)
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I'm topic drifting, but you identified the real item here, Joe...common sense has stopped being so common.
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Native American said:
I hate to say it, but I agree with you. Think about it though, why has common sense stopped being common? Who taught you to "cut away" with a pocket knife, how to hold your rifle, slapped you upside the head when you showed a lack of common sense (even if it was only a verbal slap)? In my case it was the involved adults in my life - grandfathers, mother, uncles, older neighbors who "adopted" the kids around the block to help teach us, and yes our priests.
I am running a risk in getting flamed but here goes: I have seen just over a thousand students come through my classroom. Those that have the greatest lacking of common sense are those that are left to figure it out for themselves, those who do not have the positive involvement of adults in their lives on a full time basis (as their teacher I can only be there for so long, although several kids still show up at my house). When parents have to work full time to make a living (my house is one of these) and kids are left idle... problems happen. It is exhausting as a parent/guardian/grandparent, N.A. I am sure you have a complete understanding of this too, to try to keep it together. But later on is it soooo worth it.
Native American said:
Its true....just look at all the safety warnings on items these days....although I realise that manufacturers are protecting themselves against an increasingly litiginous society, one should not need to worry that someone might use a paint-stripping heat gun as a hair-dryer. I believe the problem is that we are protecting stupid people from themselves, and not allowing for natural selection.
