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Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Emerje wrote:Maybe if you cross your fingers really tightly Takara Tomy will make a Voyager sized Megatron one day that turns into a gun. They still make gun Megatrons over there because guns are so rare that it's simply unfathomable that a child would have access to one.
Emerje
I wonder how gun laws are over there...
Their parenting is most likely superior to the US as well, prompting most children to be more responsible. Not sure how competent their cops are.Emerje wrote:Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Emerje wrote:Maybe if you cross your fingers really tightly Takara Tomy will make a Voyager sized Megatron one day that turns into a gun. They still make gun Megatrons over there because guns are so rare that it's simply unfathomable that a child would have access to one.
Emerje
I wonder how gun laws are over there...
To my understanding they're pretty loose over there and companies have their choice of safety organizations they can join with safety measures ranging from specific stamps to a warning label on the package. Even highly realistic and regulated Airsoft guns don't require orange caps like they do in most countries. One thing I found looking into it is that Japan considers a model or toy gun safe if there's no way to modify it into a real gun, be it made of plastic or zinc alloy (die cast) or being made with a steel plate in the barrel or a metal rod running the length of the gun. So transforming robots probably aren't going to be much of an issue there.
Emerje
Rodimus Prime wrote:Their parenting is most likely superior to the US as well, prompting most children to be more responsible. Not sure how competent their cops are.
The cops must be very stressed out what with all the kaiju, giant robots, and superpowered spandex-clad heroes and villains Japan has to deal with on a regular basis.Rodimus Prime wrote:Their parenting is most likely superior to the US as well, prompting most children to be more responsible. Not sure how competent their cops are.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
AcademyofDrX wrote:I'm sure the parenting is the primary explanation, doesn't have anything to do with the comparative gun ownership rates. Japan: 0.3 per 100 people, US: 120 per 100 people. I would prefer to keep gun politics out of the thread entirely, but if that's too much to ask, maybe we should start talking facts and not nonsense.
o.supreme wrote:AcademyofDrX wrote:I'm sure the parenting is the primary explanation, doesn't have anything to do with the comparative gun ownership rates. Japan: 0.3 per 100 people, US: 120 per 100 people. I would prefer to keep gun politics out of the thread entirely, but if that's too much to ask, maybe we should start talking facts and not nonsense.
Speaking of facts vs nonsense...you are saying there are 20% more Guns in the United States than there are people as a whole ?(396 Million Guns in a nation of 330 million people?) not sure where you came up with that... I just had to double check my home to make sure there wasn't some stash of weaponry I wasn't ware of.... To my knowledge there are still (thankfully) no guns in my home.
o.supreme wrote:Pretty sure far more people don't own any weapons at all vs ones with multiples
The number of guns is irrelevant. It only takes 1 gun to do damage if someone thinks it's acceptable. If people were responsible with them to begin with (which in most cases start when they're children and learn to follow behavior examples of the adults in their lives) there wouldn't be a need for laws prohibiting toy guns because the chances that a child would be wielding a real gun would be practically zero. Either the kid's parent would know to safely keep it away, or the kid would know not to touch it even if it's accessible. When I was a child we had firearms around and I was told only once not to touch any of them without adult supervision. I'm still here and I never shot anyone.AcademyofDrX wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Their parenting is most likely superior to the US as well, prompting most children to be more responsible. Not sure how competent their cops are.
Yes, I'm sure the parenting is the primary explanation, doesn't have anything to do with the comparative gun ownership rates. Japan: 0.3 per 100 people, US: 120 per 100 people. I would prefer to keep gun politics out of the thread entirely, but if that's too much to ask, maybe we should start talking facts and not nonsense.
AcademyofDrX wrote:Completely irrelevant, a huge coincidence, thank you for your contributions.
Agreed. I've stated previously I'm fine with not getting a gun Megatron. And I'm absolutely NOT fine with gun violence towards children or even adults. We do have a difference of opinion on the root cause.AcademyofDrX wrote:Here's the thing, as long as gun violence is the primary cause of death of children in this country, you're not going to get a gun Megatron. The former is the only thing that bothers me, not the latter.
Why? We were having a discussion, and it was relevant to the (im)possibility of SS86 Megatron being a handgun.-Kanrabat- wrote:I feel some angry green text incoming.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Why? We were having a discussion, and it was relevant to the (im)possibility of SS86 Megatron being a handgun.-Kanrabat- wrote:I feel some angry green text incoming.
Roadbuster wrote:Well... how about they include a G1 Megatron handgun accessory so other Decepticons and Autobots can wield it? It might be the best way around the laws. Full sized Megs would turn into a tank, but comes with a small gun accessory to simulate his gun alt mode and be used by other Transformers.
Roadbuster wrote:Well... how about they include a G1 Megatron handgun accessory so other Decepticons and Autobots can wield it? It might be the best way around the laws. Full sized Megs would turn into a tank, but comes with a small gun accessory to simulate his gun alt mode and be used by other Transformers.
Roadbuster wrote:Well... how about they include a G1 Megatron handgun accessory so other Decepticons and Autobots can wield it? It might be the best way around the laws. Full sized Megs would turn into a tank, but comes with a small gun accessory to simulate his gun alt mode and be used by other Transformers.
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