For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 04, 2012

This would be funny if it wasn’t actually happening in real life in recent years.

Hmmmm taking the toys a little too seriously, eh? This guy needs a Timmie’s…badly…

Seriously, airport gift shops shouldn’t have toy weapons… makes me wonder how Dennis Mitchell manages when he has a slingshot.

Don’t forget: This was written before 9/11 2001

ha ha ha haaa

yes but they weren’t as incredibly paranoid as after 2001. And don’t get me started on the stupid liquid rule! Ruling with fear…

Canadian border guards asked if we had any firecrackersbecause they wanted to scare away a black bear.

This is what we have turned into…

Over-zealous-drama-queen-security-guard! And the fool-father who bought those obnoxious little noise-makers for the rug-rats. Sigh!!

“I fear a bureaucrat with a bad come over more than a biker with a bad attitude,” Ted Nugent.

Are you kidding me?! Those are CHILDREN’S toys! The worse they could do with them is annoy people with them. Time to take away the ray guns until after they reach their destination and give them quiet time activities for the flight. If Elly’s a smart mom, she’ll have a bag full of them.

If this was today, Mike and Lizzie would be on the No-Fly list :)

I don’t know what funnier, the strip or the comments. lol

Lynn’s Notes:This was long before the strict security measures of today. In Toronto, however, Aaron suddenly pointed the gun at a man in a uniform and we were immediately stopped, searched, and reprimanded for trying to bring a weapon onto the plane. It was funny, but we should have known better!

Actually, IMO kids should be taught to never point a gun at another person.

the funny thing here is that, not only the comments made, but how would any parent, or anyone for that matter, like to set next to or even near kids that have toy guns making noise thru the whole flight. Maybe their folks have ‘tuned’ them out but other certainly haven’t and there’s no place to go to get away from all that racket. Being confined in a tight space is bad enough but to hear that or have a kid behind you kicking the back of your seat the whole flight and the parent/guardian doesn’t say a thing because??? Oh… the child is expressing themselves and they don’t want to hurt their feelings. To much PC is getting way out of hand.

Ain’t it the truth!!

I figured this would happen.

When I was 10 in the mid-seventies we were going to fly and I had a plastic toy gun that shot those tiny plastic discs taken away from me. They’ve always been over the top with their paranoia.

Best line from the classic Western film “Shane”: “A gun is a tool, no better or worse than any other tool, a shovel, an axe, or anything. A gun is only as bad or as good as the man using it. Remember that.”

Well, probably about the same time frame, we got stopped by security because my daughter’s ballerina doll, which had a wire through it so it could dance on it’s little podium, was in her kiddy-size red LL Bean backpack bent at the hips so it looked like a gun on their scanner. She’s a year younger than LIzzie.

Also, those old sparkler ray gun toys are a bad, bad idea when you are anywhere near airplane fuel. Think about it.

I had toy rayguns and I was taught from an early age never to point a gun, real or otherwise, at anyone. I accidentally shot a rubber dart gun too near someone at a garden party once and was sent to my room for the rest of the day, as a result.