[Leica] Street games

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Ted,

I agree.  I think it is irresponsible for stores to carry the "airsoft" and
other replicas that are so realistic.  I have an Airsoft ".45 auto", with a
hammer that is cocked and a slide safety and removable magazine that is
impossible to detect from a real one (with which I have some experience),
except for a little red ring on the muzzle which all the kids cut off. I
bought it to deal with rabbits in the garden (which didn't work - they laugh
at the plastic pellets and know the real deal).  I would have escalated the
force level, but we have some stupid ordinance about discharging real
firearms...

Ken

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> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant
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> Hi Lluis,
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> When I was a kid living in Toronto, Canada. We were always playing
> "Cowboys
> & Indians" harmless games without thought of being "PC" correct. Why? Well
> it wasn't a big deal, I might be one of the Indians for an hour, get
> killed
> a half dozen times, then we'd get an ice cream cone or soda pop and when
> we
> started again I'd be a cowboy! All simple kids shouting "bang I got you!"
> Note:  rarely did we ever use the word "Killed " you!
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> Today we see kids playing like this with "toy guns" that are so real
> police
> officers can't tell the difference until they have it in their hands. Or
> in
> a very very sad case a young boy has been shot because he made it look
> like
> he was going to shoot an officer.
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> Yours is an interesting photo because so often today in newspapers or TV
> we
> see young boys like this one with a real weapon, "AK47 or machine pistol"
> of
> some kind, but it's the real thing and they really kill rather than
> yelling
> out."Bang I got you!"
> 
> Them were the good old days of childhood imagination and not the realties
> in
> killing today. Too bad. So sad!
> 
> ted
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