In Canada, where this strip was made, guns are not common in households, particularly in urban centres. Yet, as children, we all played war and Cowboys and Indians, using wooden guns (or something resembling guns). Kids from farm communities often had access to rifles, used to hunt animals, usually in the fall months, and for putting down ill or injured animals on the farmstead. I suspect few of those farm kids equated the guns at home with the ones used in wars.Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) portrayed children in the mid-South (as I would describe Missouri in the 1800s) in terms that don’t sound that different from those in this strip. Are today’s children all that different, and is it because of the immediacy of the world events in our lives? If so, we may be the poorer for it, but the genie is out of the bottle, and we can’t go back to those days. Or maybe we older folk are just relating our youth to a changed world and today’s generation is coping with their reality, and the world isn’t really collapsing in on itself.
@harleyquinnPlease note that Hispanics originated in Spain, and Spain was one of the nations who “colonised” the Americas; the indigenous peoples there referred to the “visitors” as “white men.” I don’t understand how a nation of Europeans became non-white.
Come on, people! Murder is murder. BTW, there really are no “mixed-race” except ALL OF US! You could examine the DNA of every human on the planet and not find one “pure” person of any race.Also, keep in mind that every tribe in every part of the planet has traces of DNA from African roots. Homo sapiens originated there, and spread over the planet over a few millenia, largely on foot, the only reliable transprtation system available.
In Canada, where this strip was made, guns are not common in households, particularly in urban centres. Yet, as children, we all played war and Cowboys and Indians, using wooden guns (or something resembling guns). Kids from farm communities often had access to rifles, used to hunt animals, usually in the fall months, and for putting down ill or injured animals on the farmstead. I suspect few of those farm kids equated the guns at home with the ones used in wars.Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) portrayed children in the mid-South (as I would describe Missouri in the 1800s) in terms that don’t sound that different from those in this strip. Are today’s children all that different, and is it because of the immediacy of the world events in our lives? If so, we may be the poorer for it, but the genie is out of the bottle, and we can’t go back to those days. Or maybe we older folk are just relating our youth to a changed world and today’s generation is coping with their reality, and the world isn’t really collapsing in on itself.