03-20-2023, 10:46 PM
(03-20-2023, 09:17 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I did when I was about 5. I had a cap gun, a hat, and chaps.
Did you continue to play with your Tommy Gun into your teens? Seems to me the ones "playing Rambo' are the teens running around with guns; fake or otherwise.
I don't get where you think I said anyone deserves to get shot. I'd just prefer teens not walk around neighborhoods with guns; real or otherwise.
I'm all about personal responsibility. As to who gets to determine a credible threat? I'd go with a court of law.
In the United States acourt of law would tell you it's a free country and that people of all ages can play with toy guns. They are LEGALLY ALLOWED TO, regardless of age. They can legally walk around with toy or wooden guns. Your opinion that it's childish or not what you prefer doesn't matter. The idea that anyone needs to have any kind of reaction to it is asinine.
- In the United States kids and adults of all ages play with airsoft and paintball guns every day and it is perfectly legal. Kids and adults use toy guns to play with each other in their yards all the time. My kid has some huge Nerf guns. One is like the minigun, Old Painless, in Predator. I couldn't imagine playing Nerf with him in the front yard and someone next door being like "Honey, grab your Kriss Vector. Shit is going down!". You would have to be an absolute moron to do that.
BB Guns, Paintball guns, airsoft guns, Nerf guns.... Hell, I bought my 10 year old a full auto AK47 BB gun that uses CO2 cartridges and it is PERFECTLY LEGAL for us to shoot it in our yard whether my neighbor doesn't prefer it or not.
- You're actually allowed to pretend to be Rambo in the United States. You can pretend to be Cobra Commander, any Ninja Turtle you want, Sgt Slaughter, whatever.... You just can't actually do Rambo or Cobra Commander things and blast away at people for doing stuff you don't prefer them to do.
- Kids, specifically high school teens, play with wooden guns all the time.... every day in the United States... as members of their high school color guard teams.
- What you prefer people to do doesn't give you or anyone else the right to shoot them for doing or not doing it. Before you say you didn't say that... WTF is your point, then? Just to be contrarian?
- The kids next to Joe Mixon's house were teens playing with Nerf guns. Perfectly legal. Just like my boy and I do in our yard.
In fact, the only illegal thing done in this discussion was Joe Mixon's family shooting a kid for playing outside. Regardless of their reasons, that was illegal on several different levels.
Playing with any of these things is legal and aren't deemed credible threats enough for private citizens to take a position of self defense in any way. What you or, more specifically, Joe Mixon's family prefers doesn't matter. You cannot shoot someone for playing guns in their yard because you don't like it.
