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We tell our children not
To touch things that are hot
Then they watch us fight
Fire with fire
Grabbing torches
And molten pitchforks
And branding irons
Not seeing our children
Watching,
Standing right in the middle
Getting scarlet letters
With the most scalding metal
Created by the friction
Of our contradiction
We tell our children not
To touch things that are hot
Then they watch us..
It's imprinted deeper then touching ovens
They again lose that needed fear of fire
Cartoons Helped
The open carry law in Mchigan has kids seeing guns. Adults prefer not to see them seen or used - personal arsenal. Personal power is the fear - reference Rittenhouse and parents.
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Israel has no problem with never again motives with soldiers patrolling their nation's streets. Imagne usa if all citizens were required one year training in military service. Peace in somebody else's time is the slogan for the 23rd Century. The Zee-ers are going to inherit a world in melt-down. Heard any good polar caps are melting jokes lately?
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Lady A
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Presentation is significant, indeed
Where I live, these days, it's normal for a parent to introduce their children to guns. They are often introduced as a hunting tool, where-in many people here rely on success in hunting to secure enough food for the year. Teaching children how to respect and utilize the rifle is normal. In homes without children, you walk in the door and the rifle is sitting in the doorway or by someone's bed. It's not uncommon.
Having grown up in a city where the only guns I'd ever had seen where in the hands of the military occupation called the NYPD and, in rare cases, in the posession of mafia or gang members, this was very out of my imagination. But, while Nyc was relatively lacking in violence for a city, there is essentially no violence in the town I am in. No "home invasions", no armed robbery, no murder. Some of that, I would presume, is due to the way the gun is presented generation to generation, and some of it is the knowledge a would-be criminal has that if you enter someone's home, they probably have a rifle waiting for you. Then there's the space. Space is important. In the city, it was always hard to get space to cool off when upset. For people who are specifically prone to violence, this would be a recipe for disaster. There's a lot more space here, for sure. My "small" property is the size of 2 football fields.