Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 16, 2017

Uh…. what gun?

Not much of a mime artist, is he?

When kids playing with guns were seen as working out their agressions, not as a threat.

One of the rejected applicants for membership in DC Comics’ “Legion of Super-Heroes” was called Arm-Fall-Off Boy. And he’d have had no trouble “dropping” that gun.

That’s alright, I was out of bullets anyway.

Open your hand, CB, open your hand…

Too bad… Kids can’t play cowboys shoot out anymore. Their parents would be arrested.

Awkward. On the other hand, I remember running around the neighborhood playing war and cops and robbers with my friends when I was a kid. Great fun but today, people would probably freak.

Charlie Brown: " I would, but I am rather attached to it."

Was a time when kids could play like that…they didn’t have to do for real like now….

We used to use dart guns, so you could tell if you actually hit your opponents. (Otherwise, like in another “Peanuts” strip, it was nothing but “Bang! Bang! Bang!” “You missed!” “Did not!” “Did too!” And so forth……….)

That must be a “good guy” with a gun the NRA’s always talking about.

Some of the kids around my neighborhood still play cops and robbers. Thank God they haven’t joined the PC Patrol!

Oh my heavens! Pretend guns! Oh no! Gun control gun control gun control!

So you want Charlie Brown to drop his finger, Shermy?

I had a real toy gun when I was growing up. It was a six shooter that fired real plastic bullets. They looked like real bullets, it would fire quite a good distance.