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Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban
An anonymous reader writes "LARP fans at Bowling Green State University may have to contend with a crippled game of Humans vs. Zombies after the University banned Nerf guns on campus. In the live-action game, players are either humans or zombies. The goal of the game is to change all the humans into zombies, or for the humans to evade capture by zombies for a certain amount of time. To defend themselves against zombies, humans may use Nerf guns. Players (most likely the human ones) are petitioning the University to lift the ban. The game had troubles back in 2006, when participating students were arrested. That issue has since been cleared up."
Around here BGSU is known as the STD capital...
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Oh please... Don't put this down to fucken civil rights or privacy. It's a university, and as far as I'm concerned, if the staff don't want students running round the place firing bits of foam at people, good for them. It is, after all, a place of formal education, not a summer camp. I don't see what the big deal is.
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The thing about children is that they don't have the same capabilities for rational thought as they will have when they're adults. They also don't have the same control over their emotions, especially when they are adolescents. You may tell your child how to be responsible around guns (though I'm not sure that I would classify your plan of "here's a gun, let's shoot small animals with it" as responsible). But that doesn't mean your child won't be persuaded by a playmate to take the gun out and let him play with it. It also doesn't guard against the possibility that your depressed adolescent daughter will take the gun and kill herself, or take it into school and kill her teachers or fellow students. And when she does that, you will have taught her to be a more effective shooter.
People should not own guns, period. But to put one in the hands of a child is obscene.
http://childrenwithguns.blogspot.com/
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I would like to know where the heck you live! You don't own enough money to buy food but you have enough to buy guns and bullets... Oh sure, you live in some savage forest with all creepy animals around trying to eat you, it's surely a matter of survival! C'mon let's be real! There's no need of guns! How come now you're managing to live perfectly without guns? BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT NEEDED, and always dangerous.
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Perhaps all of you LARPers and role players are forgetting the horrific homocides that have happened on several campuses the last few years.
You know the ones, the ones where people show up with guns and shoot everyone? run across the campus quickly going bang bang and people dropping left and right?
Imagine someone doing that while a role playing game with nerf guns is going on? Imagine someone whipping up a bright orange gun near a police officer hunting the bad guy. Question: is it a real gun painted orange? how many seconds to decide? Worse - how long before the bad guys gun IS painted orange?
you know what - imagine for just one second that there might be a history of extreme violence over the last few years, and that college campuses have been and continue to be a prime location for such events, and that maybe a few LARPers, you know, the statistically unlikely to graduate on time, or at all crowd, might be the last group on campus that the administration would want to bow down to.
Imagine for just one minute, that college is a place to get an education first, and have fun second, and that rules to that effect are there for a reason. I played assisins in college too, and we never once needed a gun to have fun. change your rules to respect those around you, or dont be surprised when no one has any respect for you.
Reading comprehension is HARD!If a ban of NERF guns can be rationalized by rationalized by some kid putting toothpicks in foam arrows
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