Army Recruiters' Video Arcade Draws Fire

Well I don't know about you but I was raised in an enviorment where there were guns in the home, we hunted back in the day as they say to provide much of the meat we had during the winter as there were no huge chain stores and even A&P Market was rather small IF you even had one in your area for food. My point is, my old man as tough as he was taught each of his children the proper use of a gun. I killed my first deer at age 10, I provided food yes but I also saw first hand death. Death is a lesson that can and should be taught to all children whether you teach it by buying them a goldfish and when it dies tell them about it, do not shield them from reality. Do that in each and every walk of life......If these games are placed in a "family environment" then it is the parents responsibility to damn well teach that child the difference between reality and a game, if the kid fails that lesson then that parent is a total failure at life. My daughter passed when she was young but I taught her the difference between Superman flying on TV and someone clmbing up on a roof and jumping off. She learned early that because a super hero can run through a wall doesn't really happen and the same with this b/s in an arcade. If a teen goes to the arcade and they do not have the basic intelligence to damn well know that life/reality is one hell of a lot different than fiction/arcade games you have nobody to blame but the parent who is to damn busy to be parents and they should have kept it in their pants....end of story and no if's and's or but/s. Kids can purchase games today for the X-Box and a multitude of other consoles today that are every bit if not more violent than this arcade game and if you have not taken the responsibility of teaching your child good from bad, right from wrong and the most important life lesson that each action has consequences then the blame still falls on the parent...I knew by age 8 that a bullet ended life, I saw it in wild game, you don't hunt? Find another method to teach the child of death and about responsibility so people like recruiters can't take advantage of them. It is a hard world, teach your kid to watch their a$$ because nobody else will

You got that right...and if an 18 year old doesn't know the difference then you have a seriously damaged kid who doesn't need to go out without protection on his or her entire body like bubble wrap.