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Originally posted by fabsroman
8x56MS,
Here's another newsflash for you, it was on American TV, so you would think they would try to make the show appeal to its audience. I highly doubt this show has many native African viewers of it. Heck, I doubt DirectTV or OLN for that matter, is available in Africa, but I could be wrong.
Trust me, I know that things are different in different parts of the world. I have visited Europe and my parents came directly from Italy. However, that doesn't mean I have to put up with them here in the USA or endorse things I think are detrimental to the USA. If I had kids, I wouldn't want them to watch a show like that and think it is okay to point a gun at somebody. They don't sit down on the show and say, "Kids, here in Africa we do things a little different than you do in American because we carry heavy rifles around all day long. We carry them by the barrel slung over our shoulder and pointed directly at the person in front of us, BUT we make sure they are unloaded at all times until we are just about to shoot an animal." Kids pick up way too many bad habits from TV, and I wouldn't want that to be a habit that my children learn.
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Fabs I agree with you that I don't like to see stuff like that on TV either. For the simple reason it gives the PUBLIC a poor image of hunters.
However I totally disagree with you about kids picking up bad habits from watching T.V. . If you teach your kids right from wrong they will do the same thing you just did. They will notice that the way the person on TV is carrying the gun is WRONG and think "why would they do that"
My son is 9 and he has come to me more than once after hearing a new clip about a kid getting shot after finding the parents gun and he was just livid about the fact that the parent did NOT teach the kids Gun Safety or have the guns locked up where children couldn't get to them. I had to listen to him (at 7 years old) rant for at least 30 minutes about something stupid one hunter did on one of those OLN shows. Don't remember right now what it was but at 7 years old he picked up on it and went off for half an hour until I finally told him, he was right and the people on TV were wrong but enough was enough. LOL
We also (son and I ) just had the conversation about Video Game "making kids do bad things" Seems that they were talking about video game ratings at school and I bought him a video game called Medal of Honor that is rated M for Mature and he didn't want to play it because he thought it was going to be too violent. I told hime that violence in video games doesn't make children violent and it doesn't make kids do bad things like shoot other people. I told him that is a damn piss poor excuse for a Bad ass kid that did something wrong and doesn't want to accept responsibility for his/her action. Nick and I have been palying Medal of honor every night since the talk and I asked him night before last if he felt like he wanted to go out and kill someone and cut them up. He gave me this wierd look and saind NO WAY Why would you say thet?? I told him because he was playing such a violent video game and I wanted to make sure it wasn't affecting him. He laughed and we continued killing Japs and Krauts for another couple hours.