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Tom Paxton - "Buy A Gun For Your Son" (1965) (Original Post) BluesRunTheGame Dec 2021 OP
A prescient soul KT2000 Dec 2021 #1
Is that Pete Seeger with Tom? BarbD Dec 2021 #2
Yeah, Pete used to do a show called Rainbow Quest. BluesRunTheGame Dec 2021 #3
He's performing tonight (Saturday 12/4) in Frederick, MD! CloudWatcher Dec 2021 #4
I don't know, having toy guns isn't really the problem captain queeg Dec 2021 #5
Wow, Tom P. was good even as a youngster! Hekate Dec 2021 #6

BluesRunTheGame

(1,586 posts)
3. Yeah, Pete used to do a show called Rainbow Quest.
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 05:34 PM
Dec 2021

It ran for a couple of years in the mid 60s and he had a lot of the folk, country, blues and bluegrass performers of that era as guests.

captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
5. I don't know, having toy guns isn't really the problem
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 08:44 PM
Dec 2021

If you were going that route you’d have to include all the movies, TV, and comics that constantly showed them. Seems like it’s in boys DNA to want to play with toy weapons. I have pictures of me in a diaper with a toy six gun and holster and cowboy hat. They say I had them on all the time. My sisters son is a couple years younger than my boy. When they’d visit my nephew always wanting to play with my kids nerf guns and squirt guns. He wasn’t allowed to have any toy guns and they had no TV in their house. She finally relented and let the boys play, but they were never allowed to shoot people. Robots or monsters were ok, so that’s how they designed their games. Neither of them have any violent tendencies, but both nowadays own air-soft guns. I think you just have to be a good influence on kids. I have several guns. I’ve ever shot one in front of my son. When he was about 10 or 12 I had a revolver I decided to sell. I showed it to him just so he’d know what a real gun looks like. He wouldn’t even touch it.

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