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We don’t celebrate Halloween here, I mean, there are a few foreign families that might get together with their kids and dress up, but certainly no door to door. Czechs also have their own Christmas traditions, albeit a bit strange to us in the west, and understandably, they are against the use of Santa Claus in their country and even have an anti-Santa movement.
I read in the NY Times how kids now can’t even take there full costume should it involve a weapon of any type. One young boy dressed as a cowboy was without a gun in his holster, and a pirate wearing an eye patch had no sword in his scabbard. And whats a power ranger without the laser? It’s a sign of the times, the world we live in. No hoods allowed at the state fair, we must be able to identify you, on camera, and no battery operated laser guns for 5 year olds, it’s a shame.
Got to admit, I do miss our holidays, and Halloween is on the top of the list for most kids (next to Santa, of course). It was for me too, although I preferred to dress up like a bum, or hippie (dating myself) or perhaps, the little devil that I was :}
Now, while I never thought it a wise idea to teach kids about the use of weapons, it is embedded in our society. Cowboys and Indians topped my early years, and a straight stick sufficed as a rifle. We actually sell children’s toys that are weapons. A pistol, a bow and arrow, and rifle, and when you are older, a Beebe gun, a real bow and arrow, and then when you mature, you can purchase the real McCoy, after waiting for a license.
Maybe we should be looking at the NRA, with their ‘entitlement as an American’ attitude, to change this. I never could understand the redneck mentality of blowing the head off an innocent deer 100 meters away, and then claiming manhood! Its like the ‘oh so brave’ terrorist, willing to risk it all by making a movie showing himself with a gun at the head of a care worker, as long as he had a bag on his head. What a coward, if you truly believed that what you were doing was right, you wouldn’t don a mask to hide your identity.
It’s a shame that kids can’t be kids, with all the imagination and innocence that comes along with it, because adults have spoiled it. Its a sign of the times that we live in, and the country that we live in, one of the most violent in the world. Every 27 minutes another American dies from a gun, the highest rate in the developed world. Let’s shoot the NRA members along with Charleston Heston, for no Moses would endorse those values.
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