Classic gun fear on kid TV

[yephora]

PC anti-gun hysteria hits Romper Room!

In this 1977 clip from the old kid's live TV show a little boy mentions a toy gun he plays with at home and promptly gets chastised by the teacher who decides to make an anti-gun object lesson out of him. She tries to flip the boy's head by asking what if his toy is really a REAL gun and gets impatient when he doesn't buy into her absurdity. "I'm really shocked at this," she says, then tries to turn the rest of the class against him. Kid holds his own pretty well.
Runs 90 secs. You'll need RealPlayer to watch: http://www.tvparty.com/g2b/rompergun.ram

[GA8541RSS]

That is sad! I have been playing with toy guns since I was about 2, and I still do, cept now I have a few real guns, .oO(Muahahahahahahaaa!), and I am fine, such FUBAR! They are trying to brainwash our kids when we are trying to raise them! Hmmmm, what do you think about this?

[Richard Borts]

She must be part of the liberal media you can tell by her not allowing the kid to answer the question fully.

[WildB]

My kid was the one that had to bring all the plastic wepons so the others could play army in the park.

God Bless the NRA and its People.

[dsfiscool]

Being a NRA-supporting woman from the South, I don't know what it is like to NOT have guns around.

[Dutch]

That looked like a clip of Shrillary trying to debate people whose intellect is on a par with her own.

Final Score:

Edward the 5 year-old: 1
Shrillary the hag: 0

[45semi]

This is one I hit the roof over!
(and actually e-mailed the idiots responsible)
And yes, it was two years ago!

Tempest In A Toy Chest: State Rater Deducts Points For Preschool's 'Violent' Plastic Soldiers

Date Posted: Nov 15 2001 Source: Wilmington (NC) Star

Kids Gym Schoolhouse owner Laura Johnson knew a positive evaluation of her preschool's program was necessary to earn a distinguished four-star rating from the state. But she didn't expect one evaluator to deduct points based on the presence of "violent" toys.

So what did the observer determine to be violent? A toy ax? A toy gun? Child-size toy hand grenades?

None of the above.

The offending toys in this case: nine green plastic Army men.

To a really imaginative child, the Army men could have been part of a plastic peacekeeping force. But to an observer rating the program under the Early Childhood Environmental Rating System, the little figures represented something else.

"If stereotyping or violence is shown with regard to any group, then credit cannot be given," wrote evaluator Katie Haselden. "It was observed that nine 'army men' were present in the block play area. These figures reflect stereotyping and violence, therefore credit cannot be given."

Despite the five-point reduction caused by the plastic troops, Kids Gym Schoolhouse ended up garnering a coveted four out of five possible stars, but Ms. Johnson is still piqued about what she considers an overreaction by evaluators.

"It's absurd," she said. "It doesn't make any sense at all."

Mrs. Johnson said whenever she observed the children playing with the plastic soldiers, they were being used in nonviolent, imaginative play - such as putting the little green men astride a stuffed giraffe in the play area.

But Anna Carter, supervisor of the N.C. Division of Child Development's Policy and Program Unit, said authors of the Environmental Rating System consider toy soldiers inappropriate because they represent a violent theme.

"They don't enrich the environment and can be potentially dangerous if children use them to act out violent themes," she said.

When asked if parental influence could prompt some children to view soldiers as positive, protective role models, Ms. Carter insisted that children couldn't draw that distinction.

"They'd be more likely to use the toy soldiers to hurt the other army men or to shoot the stuffed animals," she said, adding that if that happened she didn't believe most early childhood educators could be trusted to redirect the children toward more appropriate play.

But some parents think the state is sending the wrong message to children.

Roland Hollar, whose 5-year-old grandson Jesse Hansen attends programs at Kids Gym, said his boy has been taught by family to respect military personnel.

"I don't see any problems with the little soldiers. We've taught Jesse that police officers and the military work for our country," Mr. Hollar said. "I don't think children should be taught that the military are bad guys."

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The Director of the North Carolina Division of Child Development is named Peggy Ball. According to the receptionist, Ms. Ball is Anna Carter's and Katie Haselden's boss and she can be reached at:

Division of Child Development
P.O. Box 29553
Raleigh, NC 27626
Phone: (919) 662-4543
Fax: (919) 662-4568
Email: webmasterdcd@ncmail.net

[Sgt. Rock]

Frightening, isn't it? The response is auto conditioned in the majority of people by the media, the schools and our politicians. Mention "guns" and the reaction is Pavlovian. The Left has cultivated this same response in regard to other issues (race, sex, homosexuality, religion et al) to quash rational discourse on the subject.

This kind of subtle (and not so subtle) anti gun message is delivered every day to our kids. We must give them the message that guns are not bad, or terrible, or dangerous, but what people do with them can be. It's insidious that the Left is creating (or attempting to create) a constituency for their political agenda and they're starting at this age. The Left is in charge of the schools and thus young skulls full of mush are being given this message.

Parents, whether they think so or not, have the power to reverse this trend. For every anti gun bit of rhetoric your kids hear, take them to the firing range. Introduce them to other hunters/gun owners and show them the people who are a living negation of what they're being told. That will stick with them far longer.

[yephora]

Originally posted by Sgt. Rock:
It's insidious that the Left is creating (or attempting to create) a constituency for their political agenda and they're starting at this age.

It's right out of the Communist playbook, Sarge.

[Sgt. Rock]

Originally posted by yephora:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sgt. Rock:
It's insidious that the Left is creating (or attempting to create) a constituency for their political agenda and they're starting at this age.

It's right out of the Communist playbook, Sarge.</font>[/quote]Yes it is. And if this were 20 years ago, when the Left still had hegemonic control of information sources in this country, I'd say all was lost. With advent of talk radio, Fox News and the internet, the American public is no longer presented with a one sided view of news and events. More and more, people are discovering that there are alternative sources of information and that they have been given, shall we say, an edited view of events over the years.