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    1. 08-14-2007 08:40 AM #1
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      MASSIVE DANGER: Polly Pocket and Barbie

      So 7 million (or 9 million?) Mattel toys are not safe: Barbie, Polly Pocket, Batman, and a jeep are a hazard for children and have to be recalled.

      But I guess this means that the 200 million privately-owned firearms in circulation in the US are perfectly safe, and are no risk at all for children (or for anyone else, presumably, as no recall order has been issued).

      Sorry guys, but seen from outside the States, this is an example of something other countries have trouble understanding: obsession with safety, yet at the same time... guns everywhere.

      (It reminds me of how it’s ok for TV and movies to shower us with endless violence involving guns, robbery, aggression, killing, torture, but... as soon as Janet Jackson shows a nipple, the whole country panics).

      I’m really not anti-American, but you guys are really strange sometimes...
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    2. 08-14-2007 08:45 AM #2
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      Yes, I think we are strange sometimes, too. (Even though I'm an American.) LOL I saw in someone's signature the message "Americans spend half their money on food, and half their money on weight-loss." Hehe, so true.
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    3. 08-14-2007 08:49 AM #3
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      I'm American, and I don't understand it either. At least the guns aren't being marketed towards children, but cigarettes were for awhile.

      Right about now, expect an NRA lobbiest to appear letting us know that "guns are not painted with lead-based paint."
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    4. 08-14-2007 08:22 PM #4
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      Quote Originally Posted by three and four View Post
      I’m really not anti-American, but you guys are really strange sometimes...
      That's why we need guns!
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    5. 08-14-2007 08:30 PM #5
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      Oh, not another whiner bitching about gun control...





      Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. Sure, America is weird. That's what I'm here for!
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      they cant take away our guns. Its in the constitution that we have the right to bear arms. It never said anything about the right to have barbies or polypockets. lol
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    7. 08-15-2007 02:07 AM #7
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      The Right To Bear Teddies!!

      Skysaw got me thinking: maybe this whole operation is a plot by the NRA to get children on their side. Along the lines of: “Children, the government wants to take away you toys! You need to protect your polly pockets! Batman needs your help! Get a gun, now”.

      I can’t imagine a more fervent gun owner (and NRA member) than the average six-year-old whose toys are about to be removed and destroyed by the Federal Government...

      I’m also surprised that the race-relations / equal rights / civil liberties groups (not sure what they call themselves in the States, sorry) are not making a fuss at the idea (from the toys’ point of view) that “the government wants to remove you because your Maker painted you the wrong color”...

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      Quote Originally Posted by freefire View Post
      Its in the constitution that we have the right to bear arms.
      That's why I have two of them. One on my right, and one on my left.
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    9. 08-15-2007 08:12 AM #9
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      Quote Originally Posted by freefire View Post
      they cant take away our guns. Its in the constitution that we have the right to bear arms. It never said anything about the right to have barbies or polypockets. lol
      It never said anything about assault rifles, either. I don't have a problem with people having a handgun for their own protection. But I have a big problem with anyone having easy access to weapons that are designed to mow down multiple human beings.
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