Author Topic: This is getting ridiculous (Read 1682 times)

betty · « **Reply #30 on:** October 24, 2007, 09:26:21 AM »

see! my point! lil boyz think that stuff is cool and want to show their friends.....there are some dumb parents (not puttin your parents down) but they should be more responsible with stuff like that.

Hien · « **Reply #31 on:** October 24, 2007, 09:29:17 AM »

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Originally posted by betty
see! my point! lil boyz think that stuff is cool and want to show their friends.....there are some dumb parents (not puttin your parents down) but they should be more responsible with stuff like that.

(Don't worry, my dad wasn't the brightest man in the world, I respect him... But responsibilty was not his forte)

And yeah, I mean, really. Heck, even grown men do. I may not be grown, but I know I gloat to my pals whenever I get something new, or cool.

Looking back, I don't even want to know what could have happened to me now adays. I do not like the idea of shot child. It just doesn't have a nice ring to it.

But I doubt that would have happened, it was a small school (20 kids average in my class total, known most of them since Kindergarten, if not longer) and there weren't any cops on School grounds. Or even in the town!

lazs2 · « **Reply #32 on:** October 24, 2007, 02:37:44 PM »

betty... when I was going to school we brought rifles to the school and ammo.. the school would bus us to the range and an NRA instructor would teach us target shooting..

This of course.. was for kids that took the NRA safety course which was also at the school.

Lots of kids with guns at school then. Were we safer then or now?

lazs

betty · « **Reply #33 on:** October 24, 2007, 05:06:27 PM »

i think that kids now a days are more angry....they think that violence solves all problems. the world is a very angry place now a days. back when u were young laz they just invente the wheel ....so u had more stuff to keep ya busy hehe

jk <>

lazs2 · « **Reply #34 on:** October 25, 2007, 09:14:05 AM »

betty.. so you think people have changed in a couple of decades?

I got news for you.. we were every bit as violent...maybe more so. I was in fights about 5 a year. maybe more. I even got in one fight at our favorite squirrel shooting spot cause the new kids were on our "turf"

We all put down our rifles and beat the crap out of each other.

We also knew how to read and write and do math. most of us had some catholic school background or religious one.

Now... tell me that the school system has made things better... tell me that the social engineering that they have had complete control of for decades is working... go ahead.. I dare ya.

Then tell me why vouchers are a bad idea... how any school anywhere can screw up our kids more than a public school can.

Every kid I knew had a gun.. often two or three. every kid I knew had been in fights... there were bullies and hardships back then too.

lazs

betty · « **Reply #35 on:** October 25, 2007, 09:22:43 AM »

wow laz....calm down...if u READ my post it was more of picking on you than anything.

my kids go to a public school. unfortunatly i cant afford to send them to a private school, however, i'm undecided on whether all this change is for the best for the schools. all i know is that some kids bringin in a gun and shootin the place up and killin other kids cuz they didnt get what they wanted from another student or whatever...it just hits close to home when its a school that your child goes to and makes you really concider home schooling. if it wasnt for the fact that i work alot and go to class i think i would home school my kids.

plz dont take anything i said in my other post out of content. the last part was ment to b a joke, i guess i didnt say it right...

and dude...laz...u have anger issues to be beating up kids that much when you were younger ....hehe...ya big BULLY!

betty · « **Reply #36 on:** October 25, 2007, 09:31:58 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
betty... when I was going to school we brought rifles to the school and ammo.. the school would bus us to the range and an NRA instructor would teach us target shooting..

This of course.. was for kids that took the NRA safety course which was also at the school.

Lots of kids with guns at school then. Were we safer then or now?

lazs

you know...honestly...i think that IF the kids had ppl teaching them the proper way to handle fire arms like what you had in your younger years then maybe they wouldnt be so curious about them now. with the state funding for alot of schools bein so low these days it really hurts our kids that they dont have programs like that no more, i know in michigan our state is goin to hell fast because of the damn politicians. but thats another discussion. but they have knocked out alot of sports and everything. the department of natrual resources (DNR) have hunters safety but u have to be like 16 or so to even take that and your parents have to pay for it. i guess i can honestly say i'm not sure whats good for our schools..this is a damned if u do damned if u dont type things. so for your question of are we safer then or now.....who knows...so many things have changed and i guess when i was younger i was too busy chasing boys and partyin wit my friends to really care about that stuff...hehe

ColSuave · « **Reply #37 on:** October 25, 2007, 09:33:43 AM »

the "zero tolerance" policy is way to strong. one of my friends has gotten suspended for two weeks because a teacher saw a laser pointer and said the same kind was on his sons airsoft gun.

ive never seen a lethal laser pointer.

JB73 · « **Reply #38 on:** October 25, 2007, 09:58:57 AM »

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Originally posted by ColSuave
the "zero tolerance" policy is way to strong. one of my friends has gotten suspended for two weeks because a teacher saw a laser pointer and said the same kind was on his sons airsoft gun. ive never seen a lethal laser pointer.

I'd be more cautious of a laser pointer in the hands of a kid seriously.

they CAN blind someone, and most definitely cause permanent eye damage. A few years back when they were uber-popular kids were taking them to Summerfest (A huge music festival here in Milwaukee every summer) and they were stopping concerts because so many were pointing at the stage flickering around.

on the walk to our car one night my best friend was flashed in the face from a few blocks away by one, we saw the little punk laughing and aiming at the crowd. My friend instantly fell on the ground, couldn't see in one eye, and had headaches / flashing lights in his eye for almost a week. he was lucky I think.

kids are *$&%*#$ Idiots I think, and can do a lot more damage than they know with stupid stunts like that.

I am very conservative, but I do believe there is NO reason for a minor to have a laser pointer ever.

midnight Target · « **Reply #39 on:** October 25, 2007, 10:16:59 AM »

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Originally posted by JB73
I am very conservative, but I do believe there is NO reason for a minor to have a laser pointer ever.

Pretty effing ironic there. Good job.

Maybe you'd like to move to GB and join the ban-crowd there too. LOL

Laser pointers don't blind people.... heh.

texasmom · « **Reply #40 on:** October 25, 2007, 10:21:55 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Pretty effing ironic there. Good job.
Maybe you'd like to move to GB and join the ban-crowd there too. LOL
Laser pointers don't blind people.... heh.

daaaaaang. sounding a bit like lazs

midnight Target · « **Reply #41 on:** October 25, 2007, 10:26:56 AM »

I take that as a compliment.

ColSuave · « **Reply #42 on:** October 25, 2007, 10:27:05 AM »

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Originally posted by JB73
I'd be more cautious of a laser pointer in the hands of a kid seriously.

they CAN blind someone, and most definitely cause permanent eye damage. A few years back when they were uber-popular kids were taking them to Summerfest (A huge music festival here in Milwaukee every summer) and they were stopping concerts because so many were pointing at the stage flickering around.

on the walk to our car one night my best friend was flashed in the face from a few blocks away by one, we saw the little punk laughing and aiming at the crowd. My friend instantly fell on the ground, couldn't see in one eye, and had headaches / flashing lights in his eye for almost a week. he was lucky I think.

kids are *$&%*#$ Idiots I think, and can do a lot more damage than they know with stupid stunts like that.

I am very conservative, but I do believe there is NO reason for a minor to have a laser pointer ever.

na it was one of those cheap bellybutton lasers that gets about 10ft of distance. basically a red light with a lens

ColSuave · « **Reply #43 on:** October 25, 2007, 10:34:20 AM »

I dont see how in my dads time, you could bring knives to school. but now if ya draw a picture discuss guns, tanks, knives, fighter planes, bombs, bring laser pointers, draw pictures of guns, or have a water gun at school youll get suspended or expelled. my high school will expell you for possesing cell phones because terrorists can detonate a bomb with it.

betty · « **Reply #44 on:** October 25, 2007, 10:40:22 AM »

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Originally posted by ColSuave
I dont see how in my dads time, you could bring knives to school. but now if ya draw a picture discuss guns, tanks, knives, fighter planes, bombs, bring laser pointers, draw pictures of guns, or have a water gun at school youll get suspended or expelled. one school near mine will expell you for cell phones because terrorists can detonate a bomb with it.

my daughter would die without her cellphone...aparently its the "click" as she calls it to be in the "cool" crowd.....i DO know that they can have their cellphones but they have to keep them off during school hours and keep them in their lockers. i think that since 9/11 everyone is suspicious of everyone, not knowing who u can really trust or not. we're all in panic any more about this terrist thing that its consuming our lives me thinks.