We went to disneyland recently and each day he picked a toy... every one was a weapon. A sword, a pirate gun, a buzz lightyear gun, etc. Then the other day we were in walmart looking at books and magazines (kids books and stuff) and he walked over and picked out a Guns magazine (with REAL guns in it). Then, he proceeded to ask me about each gun in there. He can now successfully identify a 1911 and an M16.

He's 4 years old!!!

Get that kid shooting .22s early and often and I bet you'll have a real sharpshooter on your hands!

AMERICA! **** YEAH!

Do not, under any circumstances, let that child near a Marine recruiter.

This is definitely a thing to be proud of for sure. Huzzah!

Can't wait to hear about his massacring on the news ^_^

You realise he wants them all because he doesn't know how to catch Pokemans yet, right?

You ruined my life.

he'll probably be like his dad and join the chair force

oh look, he's every young boy

Can't wait until his hippie phase.

oh look, a useful stereotype

Maybe he'll go through a punker phase instead, then he'll at least fight back if he gets picked on.

Like this!

Are you kidding?

Nowadays, kids are born with Pokemanz-catchin' encoded into their DNA.
I betcha' somewhere there's a foetus trying to perfect the button-push combination that makes the pokeballs more successful.

Please don't make me explain the joke.

You created this!

You mean like a rebellious phase? Shouldn't he be catering it, just little bit?

I think that would be good for him, and growing up in general. With all the cell phones and internet status updating, kids are turning complacent about the life ahead (I know, wide generalization here). Always under their parents wings. Sure he would be wrong about a lot of things and filled with the ignorance of youth, but I would think he should very much question you, question your love of guns and distaste of pokemon and whatever, and question authority in general.

Although I'm not parent and I don't know his kid, so talking out my ass for this.

edit: I thought Jon'C's post was Brian's, opps.

how disturbing

Not that weird for a little boy to like sword and gun toys, but it IS funny that you're like '**** yeah!' about it, Brian

needs more melee weapons in his arsenal

Put that punk ass kid in his place!

i always wonder what it is that makes the small bullies want to try and start **** with kids who are obviously bigger than they are... it almost always ends with the bigger kid getting pissed off and being all "HULK SMASH" on them

Because they're a bunch of dumb chav kids. That's what the camera phone was for. The only contribution they make to society is recording themselves getting ****ing beat down and deserving every damn curb stomp.

Derail: It was deeply disturbing to watch a news interview with the bully. He cried a lot, talked about how he has a hard life, but it wasn't his fault because the disgusting fat stupid kid insulted.... I mean punched!... him first.

Reporter played a sad piano song in the background.

**** that reporter and **** his boss. When my revolution comes, the reporters will be the first people in the furnace.

**** that kid's parents. Letting a 12 year old kid get an eyebrow piercing? Beating kids up at school and not doing **** about it? The mom and dad were in the interview, too. The dad's just embarrassed that everybody is making a big deal out of this. **** that kid's dad.

**** that kid. Bullies aren't victims of anything. Bullies are sociopaths. Emotionless, manipulative monsters who hurt people for the sole reason that it's fun to get away with doing wrong things.

And all teachers are insincere and incompetent. All teachers are. That's why no bully ever gets caught, because they're just devious enough that it's not worth their time to intervene. The ones who actually care either die inside or get driven out by all of the lazy and evil people in our schools who suck too much at life to get a real job. So **** the teachers, too.

And **** the principal who made the decision to expel the kid for defending himself. Principals are as lazy and evil as every other teacher, except they have a master's degree in being a useless ****up.

WTF that kid got expelled?

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU that fills me with indescribable rage!

misspoke. I meant suspended. but still.

And there is some good news. The bullied kid got suspended for 4 days. The international wave of contempt aimed at the school's faculty and administrators has shamed them into suspending the bully for 21 days (i.e. actually follow their official job description instead of their unofficial job description of faffing about and supervising a scantron machine.)

Hey Brian, he is old enough to race go-karts.. Get him out there

Heh we were just at family fun center the other day but they wouldn't let him drive. He went as a passenger on mine. He's going to try water skiing this summer (still too small for wakeboarding I think).

Re: the bully -- I had a kid take a swing at me in high school and I socked him 3 times in the face and all he managed to do was rip up my favorite shirt. He got suspended for a week and I got sent to Saturday school. I'm still bitter because kids should never, ever be punished for defending themselves. The excuse was a "zero tolerance" policy for violence which is complete bull****.

You're lucky Brian. My "bully" incident in school resulted in me with a concussion and both of us with in-school suspension for the same amount of time.

The school needs to punish both kids, because the "Correct" course of action is to rat him out. Of course this only works in a perfect world where teachers give a ****, I.E not ever in real life. If they didn't give him any punishment I can bet that more kids would have tried to copy cat him, and that would end terribly.

The correct course of action is definitely NOT to take your beating and then cry to a superior. Definitely definitely not. The correct course of action is exactly what happened.

I don't think violent bully kids aren't the diplomatic kind. Kids are always kids in that they are ignorant of how to handle things logically and with words, and bullies just take that to extreme. I find it hard to believe that they are "just misunderstood," but I wouldn't find it hard to believe that they know the school system won't touch them.

Then again I never had bullies; I was in a catholic school till 6th grade where everyone were FRIENDS. Then I went to public schools in Connecticut where people were college-minded.

That's why I put it in finger quotes, and then explained that.

You remind me of my stepson... we were driving through a bunch of farms and fields in eastern Washington and he said, "wow, this looks like farmville."

Hahaha, that's...
so sad...

Does he complain about the product placement when you drive by billboards?

A good spambot threadcrapping is just what this **** needed.

omg air jordans!

but yeah on the subject of personal experiences with bullies when i was in middle school some short skinny punk made a habit of cornering me in the locker room before gym class and hammering on me with his fists... but even though he was putting his all into those punches it didn't even feel like he could dent an empty soda can... one day after it had become clear that shoving him back hard into a row of lockers wasn't enough for him to learn not to **** with me i chased his ass into the gym and laid him out with one hit that echoed in the gym... just as the teacher looked up from his playboy

...you mean like a boy he was 'playing' with?

no... as in the magazine with photos of women in the nude