Wally: First you hook the rubber band on the end, stretch it back here...then RELEASE the clothes pin...
SNAP!
OW!
Joan: Rubber band guns?! What were you THINKING?!
Alix, Wally & Max: Thinking?
Lets not forget about the schools ZERO TOLERENCE POLICY regarding weapons. Kids have been tossed out of school for taking bread or a French fry pointing it and going “BANG”.
We just made a slingshot with our index finger and thumb, Tightly rolled a piece of paper and hooked it over the rubber band. Deadly accurate and potentially painful. Ah, the joys of childhood.
My daddy made me a slingshot from a small Y-shaped tree branch and some leather-looking stuff. THe Great Girl Warrior went around trying to bag a bird, till I seemed to hit something. I found a sparrow on the ground. It was stunned, but survived, I believe. I never shot at any living thing again.
I once bought this very old rubber band gun (circa 1920) in an antique store. It said on the box, “Safe, family fun.” The makers would be tossed in jail for that statement today I bet!!But it WAS fun!!! (I sold it for 5 times what I paid for it!!)
My dad made us these when I was a kid. We had a ball with them. But then he bought me my first rifle when I was 8 and sent me to gun safety classes. I’ve shot all my life, (not a hunter though). I’m absolutely deadly on a paper target or a clay pigeon with either a pistol, rifle, or bow and arrow.
TheDOCTOR about 9 years ago
Lets not forget about the schools ZERO TOLERENCE POLICY regarding weapons. Kids have been tossed out of school for taking bread or a French fry pointing it and going “BANG”.
Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
Well, at least the rubber band didn’t go above the leg into the tenderest spot.
38lowell about 9 years ago
…a bad example for the rest of the country!
Agent54 about 9 years ago
Hey this is real life education – what does thinking got to do with it?
Agent54 about 9 years ago
Next on the hit list is a potato gun and than a zip gun made from a antenna.
emjaycee about 9 years ago
I’ve seen a rubber-band ammoed Gatling Gun, hand-cranked, held a total of 144 rounds. That was a HOOT to play with!
Retired Dude about 9 years ago
Political correctness gone horribly, horribly wrong.
whiteheron about 9 years ago
We just made a slingshot with our index finger and thumb, Tightly rolled a piece of paper and hooked it over the rubber band. Deadly accurate and potentially painful. Ah, the joys of childhood.
mggreen about 9 years ago
You’ll shoot your eye out! Gaaaaaaa!
Comic Minister Premium Member about 9 years ago
Sorry Joan.
I'll fly away about 9 years ago
Those are a blast! Go Uncle Wally!
Gokie5 about 9 years ago
My daddy made me a slingshot from a small Y-shaped tree branch and some leather-looking stuff. THe Great Girl Warrior went around trying to bag a bird, till I seemed to hit something. I found a sparrow on the ground. It was stunned, but survived, I believe. I never shot at any living thing again.
slsharris about 9 years ago
I seemto remember this thread — or at least one very like it with Max shooting everyone wth a rubber band gun…
siw about 9 years ago
A piece of wood, an old tire inner tube, a clothes pin, some heavy twine, wow, what a rubber band gun. 1940’s Midwest..
Skylark about 9 years ago
I once bought this very old rubber band gun (circa 1920) in an antique store. It said on the box, “Safe, family fun.” The makers would be tossed in jail for that statement today I bet!!But it WAS fun!!! (I sold it for 5 times what I paid for it!!)
dzw3030 about 9 years ago
“Guns are serious…” Don’t tell us, tell Hollywood.
harebell about 9 years ago
Wally must have kept his folks very busy when he was a little kid.
sbwertz about 9 years ago
My dad made us these when I was a kid. We had a ball with them. But then he bought me my first rifle when I was 8 and sent me to gun safety classes. I’ve shot all my life, (not a hunter though). I’m absolutely deadly on a paper target or a clay pigeon with either a pistol, rifle, or bow and arrow.