Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Little League Hoplophobes

The idiocy of schools suspending six-year olds for pointing fingers at other students as a "gun" has become commonplace. If those school boards and wussified principals had been in Wilson Park when I was growing up they would have soiled their bloomers and collapsed in a quaking mass of jelly. Six-guns and Lugers, rifles and home-built simulations of "machine guns" abounded as we chose to play cowboys or war or super-heroes on a rampage in the grass and bushes. Lots of pointing, "bang-banging", ricochet whistles and of course overly dramatic dying followed by click-click bandaging and "you're all better, now."

Today we've got generations conditioned to fear blue steel and brass. We would rather succomb than resist.

But, how do you explain this:

Little League Says No Thanks to Sponsor

OK, that's their privilege I guess if they are going to be pristine about whose logo gets displayed on a team t-shirt. But if Constitution Arms is controversial wouldn't a chicken joint named "Cluck U" be a bit of a double entendre for nine-year-olds? Or having your fifth grader take the field promoting Joe's Wine and Spirits?

Just asking.

1 comment:

John said...

I am of the firm opinion that the pussies running the schools today are the same pussies who didn't want to play with guns, get their knees scraped, or their hands dirty when you and I were playing with real-looking toy 45s and carrying pocketknives to school because we needed them. They were the hall monitors, the goody two shoes, and the teachers' pets who decided that when THEY grew up they were going to run things and by God they are now doing it. God help us all.