Sep. 9, 2008 - Sometimes I wonder ...
about people.
When AJ was little, he chewed a gun out of his toast ... NO JOKE. He picked up sticks and pretended they were guns ... He shot people with his finger, his pencil, his toy guys ... whatever he could get his hands on ...
he's a weapon guy!
I tried to buy him a pop gun at the Tractor Store in the mall ... they informed me that they didnt' sell 'weapons' ...
you'd have thought I wanted an missle launcher!
My very intelligent friend who has only one daughter was concerned about AJ's attitude about guns and killing. She reasoned with him at lunch once, "AJ do you think you should be killing people for no reason at all?" He was as polite as a 4 year old could possibly be ... but that night he told me how sorry he was that Vandy didn't have any pretend in her heart.
Various friends have been 'concerned' over the use of Airsoft. He shoots his friends, they shoot him and hurting each other is the objective.
Wonder how Sarah Palin would feel about that? I'm guessing she'd approve.
Tonight, we took AJ to buy an upgraded version of an airsoft gun ... lots of money ... the promise of a lot of pain. Randy explained where we were headed ...
silence.
These people believe in a woman's right to kill her baby, gay marriage, liberal expressions of art, liberal political views ... liberal every kind of views ... they use words like tolerance and acceptance in terms of lifestyle choices ...
but they worry about teenage boys, running around shooting each other with tiny plastic bb's ...
go figure!