Maddox Jolie-Pitt loves war

..................Considering Jolie's tireless humanitarian work with refugee children affected by war, I would have pegged her as more of the peace-loving type.....................

GUNS DO NOT KILL PEOPLE....People kill people!
Guns DO NOT go to war....people go to war!

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My brother, I and all the kids on the block played with cap guns and rifles and holsters, bows and arrows etc. growing up in the 1950's-60's. It was alot of fun and we never thought it was really real, it was just fantasy play. We watched alot of TV westerns in those days and were acting out and pretending we were part of an adventure. Then a funny thing happened - we all grew up, and most of us are actually involved in the upper ranks of health care management. Paramedics, lab and surgical technicians, nurses and administrators. Not a criminal in the group.

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I'm 68 years old today. I when I was born (1940), WW2 was going on, until 1945. When we went to the movies, it was either cowboys or war shows. There were guns everywhere. Me and my neighborhood friends played cowboys all the time, or we were down in a foxhole protecting ourselves from the enemy with our rifles. Of course this was all play guns and we fought one another on a daily bases. This was child's play, just like playing Mommy and Daddy. Growing up, I never thought once that I should get a "real" gun and shoot anyone. I hunted, fished, had "real" guns in my house all of my life, but NEVER would I have considered using the "real" thing on anyone. My children all grew up with guns in their houses and they've never taken to the street and started shooting up everyone. They were taught right from wrong, just as I was, so we new the difference between "real" and "play" and respected both. This world has gotten so dictative, it's hard for me to comprehend. We're not even supposed to fish with a hook, because it may hurt the fish......GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

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I wonder if Jolie will refer to her new twins as her "twin blobs".

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I'm 68 years old today. I when I was born (1940), WW2 was going on, until 1945. When we went to the movies, it was either cowboys or war shows. There were guns everywhere. Me and my neighborhood friends played cowboys all the time, or we were down in a foxhole protecting ourselves from the enemy with our rifles. Of course this was all play guns and we fought one another on a daily bases. This was child's play, just like playing Mommy and Daddy. Growing up, and today, I never thought once that I should get a "real" gun and shoot anyone. I hunted, fished, had "real" guns in my house all of my life, but NEVER would I have considered using the "real" thing on anyone. My children all grew up with guns in their houses and they've never taken to the street and started shooting up everyone. They were taught right from wrong, just as I was, so we new the difference between "real" and "play" and respected both. This world has gotten so dictative, it's hard for me to comprehend. We're not even supposed to fish with a hook, because it may hurt the fish......GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

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"toys guns" you dummy

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I agree when we was kids we used to go in the woods and play "killer" where the person who was killer would pick a tv killer like Jason or Freddy and we would hunt down our victims in the woods and "kill" them.It was loads of fun.But them again most of us have been in prison once or twice too so maybe it wasn't that good of an idea? who knows it was still fun.

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i think she knows that peace can not come with out the price of war.

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yeah yeah gun freakos...it's about whether she should wear the picture of the gun around her neck or not. we already know it's pretty "normal" for kids to "play" war. i guess it says something about the psyche of people in general if we all think it's a natural thing for a child to run around pretending to have a machine gun.
i think tv has destroyed the brains of many a child (and adult).
in the end, it's hypocritical and ludicrous for angelina jolie to go to countries DESTROYED by war, then say how wonderful it is her son from CAMBODIA can draw a machine gun, and then WEARING the damn thing. i'm beginning to think her father was correct when he said she was crazy.
and sh** people, just b/c someone isn't pro war or in love with guns, doesn't mean they're cowards, fairies etc. grow up! i'm beginning to equate people who are into guns w/ being totally ignorant f**cks.

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I was given my first pistol when I was 13. It was a Colt .22. I am 66 now and , other than Viet Nam, I haven't shot anyone.

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start young with gun saftey. my daughter isn't even 3 yet and knows the right way and wrong way to hold a gun (practicing with toys of course)and knows never to touch when no adults are around. our guns are always locked up in a giant safe all with special safteys and the keys are always out of reach. there is nothing wrong with kids wanting to be kids and having pretend shoot outs with their friends or family. those were such fun days as a kid! its the kids with the parents who over protect instead of over educate that cause school shootings and stupid accidents. no wonder the world is scary nowadays. no one is alowed to have any harmless fun.

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Oh for crying out loud. Most little boys idolize soldiers right now. Right now, being or idolizing soldiers is very cool in the little boy world. My grandson plays "war" all the time with his action figures and admires all our men in Iraq. Get a grip people. this is a kid, and his mother has not done a danged thing wrong! Geeeez.

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I thik she is just being openminded and trying to look at both sides of an issue. I grew up playing cowboys and indians with toy guns, learned to handle a weapon at age of 12 with gun safety, have been a productive cirizen all my life and never been introuble with the law. I also carry and obey all the laws concering weapons and hand gun safety. Raught my kids the same way and they are all adults now and responsible citizens.

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The more I hear about Brad and Angelina the more I like them. This is a heart warming story about parents who really care about their children.

As a youngster (45 years ago ) my brother (three years older than me) and I would take our .22 rifles and our wagons and walk to the corner market and buy several boxes of ammo. Then we would head east out of town toward the mountains along what we called the smelter highway. My brother on one side of the road me on the other picking up all the bottles we could find. There was an old dump sight up the road a ways and when we would get there we would sort out the bottles. The ones that had a deposit on them we would save. The rest of them we would put on the hill in the dump (we did it here so we did not leave broken glass just any old place ) and we would shoot the bottles. We would take turns shooting and really have a grant time. When we were done we would return to the store we got the ammo from and turn in the good bottles for the deposit. I think I was about 8 and he was 10. It was good clean fun. We actual performed a community service ( cleaning up the highway ) and made a little cash at the same time. Imagine that happening today.... Wow how times have changed. We did not however turn out to be mass murders or serial killers. He is a rocket scientist and chaplain with the CAP. Me, I went on to be a sniper in the U.S. Army Special Forces. Yes, a real honest to goodness Green Beret. Now I manage the local lumber yard. Both of us are Eagle Scouts. Both served as missionaries for our church. And both of us have taught our kids to respect firearms and use them safely. We respect the rights of others who don't want to have guns and that is just fine. However we fell that respect should be reciprocated. I will not force someone else to have guns. Please do try to force me not to.

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Wow, I can't believe I side with Angelina Jolie on... anything, but I agree. I don't think there's anything wrong with this.

Just don't be an idiot and leave a loaded gun in reach of your kids so they "play war" with the real thing. Otherwise, what's wrong with roleplaying? Drawing a gun isn't a bad sign, that's just what the little guy is into. Jolie should be glad he's excersizing and developing the artistic side of his brain.

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Jennie

j01943e - What are you talking about? You are sick in the head. Go away!

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I think that everyone just needs to leave this family alone. They aren't using their children for attention. They don't display their children everywhere. They are trying to give their children happy childhoods; and the paparazzi are on the sidelines. All these pictures are not taken at press conferences or anything. They are taken while the family is out doing things.

She must be proud of her sons artwork, why else would she wear it. She is not berating him for his interest; but I am sure she is teaching him and letting him become her own person.

I actually have a lot of respect, surprisingly, for her. Typically I would be against someone adopting all these children from different countries when there are so many children here in the states that need a good home; but I really have to say that she has turned out to be a much more amazing mother than I ever would have expected.

And motherhood looks great on her!

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War is and always has been a "fact of life". From the dawn of man, man has been fighting and killing each other on what one might say is a rather large scale. When I was a boy, I had a fascination with armies, wars, tactics and weaponry....even did some research on the history of several different wars. Many years later I had the privilege and honor of being a United States soldier (back in the 80s). This much I can say for certain (in MY experience)........I was taught so many things that pertained to war, that I thank god to this very day that I was never called upon to actually put into practice, the training which I so eagerly received.

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What is the big deal?
We had guns growing up, BB guns, fake guns, cap guns, squirt guns and not one of us (nor my cousins) have ever picked up a gun to kill anyone.
I am a hunter (and female) that goes deer hunting which I love....my brother is a big deer hunter also. His 5 yr old son just received a .22 rifle for his 5th birthday.......used only under close supervision, taught the RIGHT way to handle a rifle/gun, then it is locked up when not used at the hunting camp.
My hubby is opposite, he and his brothers were NOT allowed to be near guns of any type growing up. No bb guns, no play guns, no cap guns.

Its all in the attitude you have about guns.

My cousin had a babysitter that got into my uncles guns. He accidentally shot one off while babysitting, putting a hole in the wall.
It could have been my then 4 yr old cousin!

My uncle was mad but he took that young boy babysitter out to the woods and showed him the PROPER way of handling a rifle and pistols. Spent a lot of time with him so he could learn safety and respect for firearms.

Now if I lived in the inner city somewhere where crime was rampant and my child had a gun I know I'd have a different attitude about guns........but I don't live there.
The young men in the crime ridden areas of the cities need to be taught that shooting someone is often THE END of the persons life......someone dies, death is forever and prison is not a place you want to be.

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