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1279 clicks; posted to Main » on 18 Mar 2023 at 3:50 PM (6 days ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Cheron
6 days ago  
If they are white there should be no problem
 
Gleaming the TimeCube
6 days ago  
In school Lazer Tag is what we need. The more a kid gets hiat, the more homework he gets. It can't help but make our children smarter and safer.
 
sniderman
6 days ago  
"Laser tag games emulate gun violence in schools!"

You're right, we should do something about gun violence in schools.

"NO, we need to move laser tag games OUT of schools and to a different location!"

But what about gun violence in schools?

"TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION"
 
Wally007
6 days ago  
Real guns in school good, laser tag bad...
 
Subtonic
6 days ago  

Cheron: If they are white there should be no problem


Fark you.
 
foo monkey
6 days ago  
I blame video games and rap music.
 
Chuck87
6 days ago  
Laser tag after school? Sounds fun. My high school didn't have that.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
6 days ago  
oh for ffs.  WAAAAH LAZERTAG PROMOTES VIOLENCE.

No, you idiot, just like violent video games and movies and all the other shiat, this is total BS.

You know what promotes violence and violent behavior?

1. Lack of farking education.
2. Lack of empathy.
3. Lack of properly developed emotional functions.
4. Lack of proper care, treatment, and handling of emotional/mental illness/distress.
5. Easy access to guns, especially when item 4 is in play.

Your kid is a violent little shiat because nobody taught him how not to be. He has stunted emotional development, has gone untreated for issues, and suffers from any number of emotionally damaging factors that you either failed to get treated, or ignored.

Plenty of kids play airsoft, play with squirtguns, play with lazertag, etc. and just like those that play violent video games or movies, they somehow manage to not become violent psychopaths/sociopaths..

it's extremely amazing that programs which intervene with people showing signs of violent behavior or poor impulse control, conflict resolution skills, etc. have a massive positive return on their efforts, in a "no, that's actually blatantly obvious since they're teaching the kinds of skills and emotional maturity that problem kids somehow missed out on the first time around" sort of way.

Get involved in your kid's life.  Teach them. Teach them to be good people. Get them help when they need it. Be there for them and help them develop emotional maturity.  Be a goddamned parent.
 
sinko swimo
6 days ago  

foo monkey: I blame video games and rap music.


used to be cheap soda and comic books. there's no end to it.
 
Tomahawk513 [TotalFark]
6 days ago  
School boards are the worst thing to happen to public schools.
 
cmb53208
6 days ago  
Here's a wild idea: teach your kids actual ethics, empathy, and decency. Yes I know it's harder than pointing fingers at phantom fears, but in the end it pays off
 
trerro [TotalFark] [OhFark]
6 days ago  
Laser tag, Nerf, paintball, and the wide variety of water guns are TOYS. You shoot each other for fun, because you know you aren't going to do any actual damage, and you can play out a battle with all of the strategy and skill (or just to have food hitting each other with foam and water) and none of consequences. See also: why people like to shoot each other in video games. The idea that someone enjoying shooting people with harmless toys is going to lead to wanting to cause actual harm to someone is ridiculous.

Only in America do people try to ban games and toy weapons, and refuse to do anything about the real people getting shot with real guns.
 
foo monkey
6 days ago  

sinko swimo: foo monkey: I blame video games and rap music.

used to be cheap soda and comic books. there's no end to it.


Pfft.  Comic books were never cheap.
 
Vespers
6 days ago  
On the other hand, it does make good practice for when a real shooter shows up. All you have to do is tweak the scenario a bit, leave everybody with their trackers on but only give them one gun among them. Winners don't have their trackers activated and/or jumps the shooter for the gun.
 
Cheron
6 days ago  

Subtonic: Cheron: If they are white there should be no problem

Fark you.


A white kid shoots up a church and police stop to get him a burger. A black kid has something in his hand on the play ground and is shot dead seconds after police arrive.
 
Jairzinho
6 days ago  
This is what happens when we are the only nation in the world that has gun fight emulating games for kids like laser tag, otherwise we wouldn't....
*checks ear piece*
Wait, we are not??? So how come we... *sigh* never mind!
 
oopsboom
6 days ago  
quick, someone go ask that parent's opinion on active shooter drills
 
oopsboom
6 days ago  

Vespers: On the other hand, it does make good practice for when a real shooter shows up. All you have to do is tweak the scenario a bit, leave everybody with their trackers on but only give them one gun among them. Winners don't have their trackers activated and/or jumps the shooter for the gun.


difficulty, it trains the kids that during a real shooter event they 'win' by getting the gun away from the shooter...then continuing to shoot the rest of their classmates.
 
Jz4p
6 days ago  
It's probably fine, unless one of the kids involved started screaming, "I hate you all, I'm going to kill you for real!"
 
oopsboom
6 days ago  
ok but no seriously this is an ongoing problem in america.  guns get the same answer as is given for racism, climate, and a bunch of other things.  if we hide everything that reminds us of the problem then the problem must be gone!
 
Vespers
6 days ago  

oopsboom: Vespers: On the other hand, it does make good practice for when a real shooter shows up. All you have to do is tweak the scenario a bit, leave everybody with their trackers on but only give them one gun among them. Winners don't have their trackers activated and/or jumps the shooter for the gun.

difficulty, it trains the kids that during a real shooter event they 'win' by getting the gun away from the shooter...then continuing to shoot the rest of their classmates.


Keeps them occupied until the cops get their coffee, stretch, get their riot gear on, do their pregame, and stand in the hall for a bit. Then they can run in, randomly kill a kid and maybe a few adults, and everybody who lives, wins. Then they can do it again next month.
 
WTFDYW [BareFark]
6 days ago  

Kit Fister: oh for ffs.  WAAAAH LAZERTAG PROMOTES VIOLENCE.

No, you idiot, just like violent video games and movies and all the other shiat, this is total BS.

You know what promotes violence and violent behavior?

1. Lack of farking education.
2. Lack of empathy.
3. Lack of properly developed emotional functions.
4. Lack of proper care, treatment, and handling of emotional/mental illness/distress.
5. Easy access to guns, especially when item 4 is in play.

Your kid is a violent little shiat because nobody taught him how not to be. He has stunted emotional development, has gone untreated for issues, and suffers from any number of emotionally damaging factors that you either failed to get treated, or ignored.

Plenty of kids play airsoft, play with squirtguns, play with lazertag, etc. and just like those that play violent video games or movies, they somehow manage to not become violent psychopaths/sociopaths..

it's extremely amazing that programs which intervene with people showing signs of violent behavior or poor impulse control, conflict resolution skills, etc. have a massive positive return on their efforts, in a "no, that's actually blatantly obvious since they're teaching the kinds of skills and emotional maturity that problem kids somehow missed out on the first time around" sort of way.

Get involved in your kid's life.  Teach them. Teach them to be good people. Get them help when they need it. Be there for them and help them develop emotional maturity.  Be a goddamned parent.


This^^^ 10,000 times!
 
Zik-Zak
6 days ago  

Kit Fister: oh for ffs.  WAAAAH LAZERTAG PROMOTES VIOLENCE.

No, you idiot, just like violent video games and movies and all the other shiat, this is total BS.

You know what promotes violence and violent behavior?

1. Lack of farking education.
2. Lack of empathy.
3. Lack of properly developed emotional functions.
4. Lack of proper care, treatment, and handling of emotional/mental illness/distress.
5. Easy access to guns, especially when item 4 is in play.

Your kid is a violent little shiat because nobody taught him how not to be. He has stunted emotional development, has gone untreated for issues, and suffers from any number of emotionally damaging factors that you either failed to get treated, or ignored.

Plenty of kids play airsoft, play with squirtguns, play with lazertag, etc. and just like those that play violent video games or movies, they somehow manage to not become violent psychopaths/sociopaths..

it's extremely amazing that programs which intervene with people showing signs of violent behavior or poor impulse control, conflict resolution skills, etc. have a massive positive return on their efforts, in a "no, that's actually blatantly obvious since they're teaching the kinds of skills and emotional maturity that problem kids somehow missed out on the first time around" sort of way.

Get involved in your kid's life.  Teach them. Teach them to be good people. Get them help when they need it. Be there for them and help them develop emotional maturity.  Be a goddamned parent.


While I would like to throw up a this.webp to show support for you saying the above, it will fail because:

1) Have you met Americans?

/source: I'm an American, 10+ years in education, surprisingly not shot
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

sinko swimo: foo monkey: I blame video games and rap music.

used to be cheap soda and comic books. there's no end to it.


Anything to avoid taking responsibility for shiatty parenting, and supporting all kinds of selfish, me-first bullshiat policies and crap that's left a lot of people emotionally stunted, desperate, and without the kind of social development we see in healthy societies.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

Zik-Zak: While I would like to throw up a this.webp to show support for you saying the above, it will fail because:

1) Have you met Americans?

/source: I'm an American, 10+ years in education, surprisingly not shot


Yes. I was on the receiving end of the worst of the bullies in school. Both of my parents were teachers.  We all saw the bullshiat happening. And we saw what happened when the teachers checked out, and the Parents started blaming the school systems, the teachers, and everything else for Little Johnny's emotional problems, being a giant douchebag and a bully, etc. but themselves and their lack of parenting.

It's disheartening because you see the bad parents, and you can tell the kids whose parents are at best shiatty parents and at worst outright abusive, self-absorbed farks. You can't do shiat about it, you can't force them to be better parents, so you just kinda shrug and start taking bets on how soon before Little Johnny goes to prison.
 
Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle
6 days ago  
Do it with AR-15s instead and the NRA will fight for your rights.
 
Mock26
6 days ago  
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Play this, but use bananas as substitutes for guns. Someone seeing you running around with a banana and yelling "Bang!" is not going to call the cops.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle: Do it with AR-15s instead and the NRA will fight for your rights.


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