Cleats by Bill Hinds for October 17, 2024

It’s not the same thing, lady. That is not a real gun. It can’t shoot real bullets. The orange dot is an indicator that it’s not a real gun. Putting an orange dot on a real car does absolutely nothing to make the car not a real car. You’re being irrational.

Deena, video games develop hand to eye coordination, improve your cognitive skills, and make kids into better games. Jack is in good hands.

Raising More First-Person Shooters in America. Yay.

While I am uncomfortable with giving kids war toys, I do think Deena is overreacting.

She’s obviously a liberal and he, a conservative. I don’t see much hope for their marriage. But that’s simply my opinion based on several couples I have known.

My dad gave me a real .45 automatic to take on dates in the glove box when I first started driving/dating. Have been an active shooter, gun owner for 55 years. I have not bought either of my grandsons a toy gun. It can be too hard to unlearn bad play habits when you begin to handle real guns. When my 12 year old was mature enough to take a single shot 28 gauge shotgun on a supervised dove hunt….I had to make it clear it wasn’t like a cartoon where the pellets fly like a swarm of bees. I took an outgrown pink high top sneaker from my teen daughter. Filled it with a baggie of red jello. Before the hunt we went out and I had him shoot the shoe from about ten feet away. It split and peeled open in a particularly gory way and unexpectedly sprayed both of us (in our white tee shirts)with bright scarlet “blood”. A very effective teaching moment …sobering, not funny. I never let him play “shooter” video games. They violate the first rule of gun safety, never point your gun at anyone or anything that isn’t too be shot.

I am with Deanna 100%.

Dang, lady, take a Xanax.

Ok…tired of this. Tired of being “preached” at. I will no longer hit the “like” button. It’s not people like us that you have to worry about. We grew up with guns, how to safely handle them, how to safely store them. We grew up with toy guns, never hurting anyone! I play violent video games, like GTA and Sniper Elite 5, but I don’t go out and hurt anyone! I’m glad my mom didn’t react like this. She grew up around guns too!