But we got rid of the gun emoji

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• RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or a 110 degree angled stick

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  • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or fingers…

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My anti-violence mother let me have all the guns I wanted when I was a kid. Space guns, spy guns, soldier guns, whatever I wanted. By the time I was in 6th Grade I was over guns and never wanted to get a real one.

  Just saying...

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    oh yeah, my parents absolutely would not have firearms in the house. not safe, and they knew the statistics to back it up. also, dad was rated expert in marksmanship in the 1911 and the m16 during his time in the army and he made sure all us kids could out-shoot him. so like, there was a bit of a dichotomy there.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah same here. There’s something else going on here. It’s not toys and video games. We had GI Joe, every action figure had a gun or rifle. We had fake guns in the toy aisles. They looked real af. That was totally normal.

    I hate to say, but the one thing we didn’t have… was the internet 😕

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wealth disparity was better by like a factor of 10 back then.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same here, and add super soakers, airsoft, and paintball. Sure we did shoot at each other with those (because that’s literally how those games are played), but it’s different.

    Now, I do happen to like real guns, but there’s also a difference between a Tipman 98 custom and a Glock 19x lmao, and neither are allowed at the appropriate place for the other. Just liking toy guns/paintball or even real ones doesn’t mean you’re going to be irresponsible or malicious with either.

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• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shit! Rick n Morty has an apisode and I just realized that’s probably a criticism in the show. They go to a place where you are in an anti death field, you can’t be killed. There are two kids running around with real blaster and shooting each other. They don’t die; the field is in effect, however, Rick says ‘bad parenting’ lmao.

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  • Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you forgetting ::: spoiler spoiler They do very much in fact die when the field fails. :::

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• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let a kid try out one of my RC trucks. First thing he did was plow the fucking thing into my leg. Kids are dumb (and now no one is allowed to drive them 😤)

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• elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  maybe children should have their thumb and index fingers removed at birth

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