Originally posted by: bkev
Censorship. And thanks for the luck, I finished it pretty quick.

I mean, here I am having grown up with batman TAS since at least four - whereas now I can't even see a single gun on a cartoon that isn't "for kids." I think it's a little ridiculous, especially things like with Disney's "IT'S A BONAR" knee... you'd have to be damn sick to think it's a boner, and hopefully none of those kids watching thinks that way.

Edited to seem less angry and make a little more sense

I don't know any kids that think that. They probably don't even notice. All the people I've ever heard mention it were teenagers and adults. The ones that know about it and what it was will say "It looks like a boner, but it's just his knees". The ones without a clue will just say it's a boner, which usually prompts an explanation from me to them.

As for the guns, this is Spielberg we're talking about. He didn't have any guns in the last scene of Schindler's List, even though, historically, the Jews were well armed when Schindler told the Nazis they had orders to kill them.

As for the whole not being able to find toy guns around, at least in California, it's because the State banned them. Retailers simply cannot sell guns that look real, even though they had red tips on the barrel for as long as I've known (I'm 33). Any gun that is sold in a toy store must look obviously fake. That's why you've got these weird shaped, psychadelically painted guns. So they look obviously fake for when the stupid kids point them at cops. When I was a kid, the last thing you would EVER think of doing was pointing a toy gun at a cop. Stupid parents and stupid kids are the reason for stupid laws.