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We called them "cap guns". Great fun!
TheJapanChannel.com
2022-06-29 23:07:08 +0000 UTCI remember how popular "cowboy guns" were when I was little... They looked realistic and had six firecrackers (sort of) to make noise when pretending to shoot.
JB
2022-06-29 19:35:51 +0000 UTCWhen I was 10 or 11, I used to climb on the roof of the old lady's house across the street with an air rifle and play sniper. (Never shot at people.. just the odd bird.. which I regret now...)
TheJapanChannel.com
2022-06-29 01:22:16 +0000 UTCYep. That's how it used to be in Canada & US, and I imagine Oz, NZ, UK, and most everywhere else in the West. It was inconceivable that a child would be carrying anything but a toy. On a typical summer's day, you'd be hard pressed not to see any of my "gang" running around our neighbourhood playing cowboys, or army, or cops & robbers, or some such, and armed to the teeth with arsenals of plastic. And the neighbours never gave it a second look. My God, how every shred of childhood innocence has been stripped away, now. I watched this video with a sad nostalgia for how things used to be. We played as boys like to play. That was all. I shudder to think of the response now to any boy running around the neighbourhood brandishing something like that .357 Former infantryman, here. I know what guns can do. But it's the innocence that I am happy to see still exists in Japan. Your expression was appropriate. I could read you loud and clear. Your raised eyebrows spoke volumes. My Dad, a war vet, probably felt similarly. But if they still allow toys like that in Japan without clear, identifying orange caps on the muzzles, then it also says something about their society. Happy to know that there is still some innocence left, somewhere in the world.
Brian Mack
2022-06-29 00:58:47 +0000 UTC
