This article was in the Sunday paper and struck me as insanely WRONG. In New Hope MN, you can plunk down $150 and take your pot shot at assassinating an actor portraying Osama Bin Laden. The stage sets up the whole Pakistan compound and lets "role players" re-enact Operation Geronimo. Body armor and a semi-automatic rifle loaded with paint balls lets you play Navy Seal as you round corners and take out cardboard mannequins of Osama's wives before ultimately honing in on a bearded figure in a back bedroom and obliterating him. After racking up the prize, participants are encouraged to snap a photo and share it on their FB page.
New local war game: Take your best shot at Bin Laden
This is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to begin! I have noticed the bombardment of firearms classes coming my way via Groupon and others that used to be trying to sell me BarBQ lunches and dry cleaning deals. This enterprise is the brainchild of a husband and wife team that used to work in foreign policy. There is actually a quote in the article where they say "if we just concentrate on firearms proficiency and personal safety classes, people don't show up." Gun safety and recreational hunting are one thing - but this has nothing to do with that. It pushes the boundaries from reality to fantasy. We used to worry about violent video games and the impact they had on children. This bumps it up into a whole new stratosphere. And then we wonder why we have delusional mass shootings at warehouses in NE Minneapolis and shopping malls in urban WI!!! Stop the insanity.
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