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Edited by Funkbrotha10:
1/30/2014 1:20:31 AM
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Airsoft guns should be illegal to posses for those under 18
I am starting this thread with the simple fact. If it looks like a gun. It's a gun.
it doesn't matter if it has an orange tip. Or if its painted in a rainbow. If it looks like a gun. It's a gun.
If I saw someone pointing a gun-thing with an orange tip at me. I would put them down immediately. And so would the police. Doesn't matter if its a super-soaker or an orange airsoft gun.
You do need to be 18 to purchase an airsoft gun. But parents can simply purchase them for their children and let them run around the neighborhood playing around with them.
Guns are not toys. Things that look like guns are not toys.
Kids do not physically have the brain-power to understand how serious guns and gun-shaped-things are. And how sensitive they are with the public and police. Many kids do not / are incapable of understanding that they could get themselves killed or their friends killed by playing with airsoft guns in the wrong place and time.
In addition it normalizes that guns are things that are fun to play around with. Pick up and whatever.
Now if you are an adult and you want to play airsoft with other adults in a safe place. Go for it. I trust your judgement.
But I do not think that airsoft guns should be things that kids can posses and play with, without adult supervision. A child with an airsoft gun is a danger to themselves and others. Even if they have good intentions.
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1 ReplyWise words from my father: "I'd rather you spend your money on guns and ammo instead of booze and drugs" Also, I've seen mature 13 year-olds and immature 20 year-olds. You can't automatically just judge somebody because of their age and what honestly makes you think that there's a difference between ages of 17 and 18? One doesn't just magically become "mature" when at the latter. Responsibility, along with maturity, is developed through experience. You afraid that some kid is going to use it improperly? Yeah, that's only if they have nobody to teach the rights and wrongs. Education and teaching children simple common-sense goes a long way when discussing responsibility. But you know, I'd take you as one of those people who thinks it's fine for a kid to sit inside all day playing video games as it "protects" them from the outside world. Guess what dude? Our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and so on have been playing outside doing God knows what (throwing rocks at each other, playing with bows and arrows, wrestling around, etc) and we as a species have not yet died out from it. Worst that will happen is somebody maybe getting a cut. Some disinfectant and a bandage will patch them up good as new, teaching them the idea of not being sissy
