(NZ) Head (teacher) brings in a licence to play with toy guns

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Nothing like starting in at an early age.
"Applicants for a licence must say why they want one.


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Head brings in a licence to play with toy guns
By Paul Chapman in Wellington

CHILDREN as young as four in New Zealand are being required to apply for "licences" for toy guns.
The scheme was launched at Tahunanui kindergarten in Nelson, South Island, and is spreading rapidly. Children must answer questions and learn rules before they can play gun games. Card licences must then be carried.

Helen Durbridge, the head teacher said: "They have to tell us the rules of guns and the first rule is that you never point a gun at anybody." Applicants for a licence must say why they want one. Those who say they want to shoot endangered animals are told why this must not be done.

Youngsters who want to play cops and robbers are told that New Zealand police are usually unarmed, so shooting is forbidden. But children who want to put down a seriously injured pretend horse, or hunt possums - seen as a pest - may be granted a licence.

New Zealand has a high level of gun ownership because of its rural lifestyle. But a series of mass murders during the past decade, and incidents in which police have shot criminals, have heightened public awareness of the dangers.
 
Sounds like utopia, maybe I'll move there soon. Good place for bank robbers to go. When I were a pup we shot just about everything and everyone, we all grew up and avoided commiting mass shooting. Wow I wonder why we havent done that? Based on their way of thinking a lot of "cowboy and indian kids" would be out shooting endangered species after all the murders they commit. What a bunch of bs.

But the best part is conditioning them to accept self defence as a right granted by the government.
 
I don't believe this sh*t!!!

My brothers and I grew up making guns out of pieces of wood -- anything that vaguely resembled a gun. We "shot" each other up and down the laneway behind our house.

Funny, we all have guns now -- I have 3, my middle brother has 1 and my younger brother is a copper.

Even funnier -- we've never shot anyone!

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Well look at the bright side.It gives the parents a perfect opportunity to start teaching their kids about civil disobedience at an early age.

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
 
You think that's bad??? Did you guys read the story "Your lolly or your life, Mister"? The link was on that page with the "licensing". Some three year old kid is "holding up" people in his town with a toy gun and demanding candy or he won't let them pass. Have the british become total PANSIES??!?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000480450009990&rtmo=r2QSrr3X&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/5/19/nbrat19.html



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The first step is registration, the second step is confiscation, the final step is subjugation.
 
Oh lord.....what kind of ninnies are these people? They called the POLICE because a 3-year old boy was playing robber with a toy gun! They "discussed the problem at a neighborhood watch meeting!" These are idiots beyond any help. They should be shot in order to put them out of their misery. That's counter to what I usually tell others on this forum but I've reached my limit. I can't handle this stuff anymore.
 
At the risk of re-enacting the holocaust, but such dummies have to
wear signs indicating they're of minor intelligence, maybe a monkey
sewn on their outer garments, and have them wear little bells.

OTOH, if I had some tactical nuclear bomb, that neighborhood 'watch'
(whom do they watch) would have been history long ago.
 
Aw, c'mon! A three y/o robber? For sweets?
A village being held hostage? Really now.
Surely this is a joke!
 
There was a study come out in NZ about 6-8 months ago that suggested that boys who were allowed to play with toy guns and play war etc. were better socialised and less violent.
Against what some 'anti's' suggested the children doing so were fully aware of the fact that what they are doing is play and in no way real. I think that this is just the usual PC way of completely under-estimating Children.
I'm assuming that this policy is some PC way of accepting those findings without actually approving of playing cops and robbers.

A shooting in New Zealand is a BIG deal News bulletins on the TV, front page on all the papers in the country, etc. A police shooting is even bigger news (the police shot someone this year, it the first item on the news for a couple of weeks, and the investigation etc. into the shooting still racks very high in the news).
Waitara Shooting

I can't remeber how many people the NZ police has shot, not many, but to give you an idea of 'war zone' NZ, in the last 110 years 25 New Zealand Police officers have been killed.

The news currently full of the 'oh wow NZ is becoming violent' because there are now 5 murders currently under investigation. Police resources are a bit stretched at the moment because of it.

IS New Zealand utopia, not really, but is just about a different planet to the USA in most respects, similar in some though...

There is a certain amount of violence in NZ as this story shows....
Gang Shooting

This is a typical NZ Quote though.....
"Detective Senior Sergeant Ell said it was disturbing that gang rivalries had turned lethal."

It is normal for these rivalries to lead to fights, but not death. That's not the way things are done here, this is NZ, is the general attitude.


[This message has been edited by Young Kiwi (edited September 05, 2000).]
 
Here's your sign, Here's your sign, Here's your "stupid" sign.... :D

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The first step is registration, the second step is confiscation, the final step is subjugation.
 
I suggest sending Richard Marcinko over there to give them all "nookies" followed by a stout "wedgie" and a "mevin" for good measure.
 
Heard this schoolmarm on the radio today...yet another Nurse Ratched. Ack! British radio program was saying that "not enough adults bother with licenses" in a toneof disapproval.
 
As a kiwi gunowner I was personally suprised that the kindy teachers even "allowed" these licenses to cover hunting[nonendangered species]/farm duty/target practice, considering the PC banning enviroment in other Commonwealth nations [i.e.idealogical colonies of Pomland].Still hopefully this may show that hunting and firearms are generally acceptable in Kiwi culture esp south of the Bombays.

Luckliy Kiwi gunowners recently defeated the Arms Act amendment concerning complete registration of all individual arms with the largest ever submissions[over 6000] to a parlimentary select committee,so things could be worse.

Hopefully we can shake off the hunter mentality of many gunowners[over 250,000 out of a total national pop of 3.6 mil,thats a decent political voice]and get some real RKBA[don't even mention self defence here], other wise I'm commin to America.

P.S. Please don't confuse KIWIS with POMS.

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All things aside, the All Blacks are still the world's best team (sorry Bruce, you guys got lucky this year with the Tri Nations and the Bledisloe, and can you have Eales retire now?)(Please?).
 
Fed 168 absolutley correct !!!
With the Ozzies losing Tim Horan,Jason Little,David Wilson,Rich Harry, and later John Eales,Rod Macqueen.The A/b's will once again regain the Webb Ellis[we need it].

Just have to correct Oliver's and team's lineout tactics,etc

Oops very O/T but Rugby is NZ's state religion.
 
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