Those were the days...
https://youtu.be/LwWuR3-Y4Go
(1 minute video)
I Think This Would Violate the No-Gun Policy
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by InTheLight, Sep 22, 2015.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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How times have changed. -
just-want-peace Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Yea, verily!!
The days when virtually every kid had some form of a "six shooter", and the school shootings were so common.
So glad the gun control advocates have succeeded!
(Sarcasm just in case any readers fail to grasp that aspect!!:saint:) -
Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Bring a cap gun or point your finger like a gun and every be like you trippin man bringin that thang in here.
However, a Muslim brings a device he falsely claims to have made which looks like a bomb and everyone is like you be all up in my grill with homophobia!
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
When I was a kid I had the cap pistol that you loaded with a roll of caps. The roll had holes in between the powder dots of the caps and the trigger action rotated a toothed gear that engaged into the holes in the roll. You could get the rapid fire action like in the video. Unlike the one shown in the video, it didn't shoot any projectiles.
Of course, boys being boys, we would take an entire roll of caps, place it on the sidewalk and then hammer it with a hammer and get one big satisfying loud BANG!!. -
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just-want-peace Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
One of my favorite activities with my "Red Ryder" was to lay in the grass/clover and wait for a honey bee to land on a stem of clover, take deadly aim, and shoot the stem out from under the bee.
I could usually get the same bee about four times before he would give up and get outta Dodge.
It's a shame that we didn't know how good life was then - not being an adult with all the attendant woes.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Of course neither does tennis ball cannons when you accidentally spill the gasoline all over the drive way. :eek: -
JohnDeereFan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I was surrounded by toy guns and real guns when I was a child. So were my friends. And yet, it never occurred to us to actually shoot somebody.
We had an old chert pit near our house and it was awesome for playing war.
When we were a little older and Alabama legalized fireworks, we'd go there and shoot bottle rockets at each other. But that's another story.
Funny how those of us who grew up with guns in the house, playing with guns, watching Roy Rogers, Gunsmoke, the Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, and all those shows never thought to kill somebody, but those who have grown up and been indoctrinated to believe guns are evil are on the news every night.
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How about the stick match shooting flame throwers made from the springy two piece clothespins? They were fun. -
Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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JohnDeereFan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Magnifying glass+paper+dry grass+ten year old boy never ends well.
My favorite thing to do was to poke a hole in an empty soup can, stick a fire cracker in it and then put it in about two inches of water in a baking pan. You can blow them about sixty feet in the air. -
just-want-peace Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Makes me wonder how I managed to become an adult. :laugh: -
InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
As teens we made potato guns out of a PVC tube and used hair spray for fuel. Yee-Haw!
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Bummer, I was such a good kid .....
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When we ran out "caps" but still wanted to make some noise we'd take empty .22 shells fill them with match heads and smack em hard with a rock or a hammer.
Then go around yelling at each other because we couldn't hear. -
Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Yep, it didn't slow us down though.
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The Last Rebels: 25 Things We Did as Kids That Would Get Someone Arrested Today
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-last-rebels-25-things-we-did-as-kids-that-would-get-someone-arrested-today-2_092015
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