Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for May 12, 2015

Do they still let kids play with capguns, with real caps in them, or have the parents become terrified of those as well?

Nope Nowadays they have “AIRSOFT” guns that fire 6mm plastic BB

I wouldn’t use a capgun anywhere near an armed cop.

I remember having a cap gun when I was a kid. I’d unroll some of the caps over a rock and hit them with another rock to make them “pop”. I suppose that would get kids arrested if they did that today.

Ba-dup-bump! (crash)

It’s called a police state.

I had a Mattel Shoot-N-Shell gun and holster set when I was quite young! The cartridges had spring loaded bullets you “snapped” into the “brass”, and placed a stick-on cap on the firing end before loading the cylinder!

What a hoot!

We used to pound a whole roll of caps with a hammer at once. I remember being too young for firecrackers but spending one 4th of July doing that out in my driveway.

So if Charlie Brown pitched right-handed, why’s he shooting left-handed?

OBVIOUSLY, he’s a switch shooter.

Wasn’t there a strip where Lucy was running around with a toy ray gun saying “bang bang” and Charlie Brown telling her that she was making the wrong sounds?

When they were building a development of new houses in our neighbourhood, a bunch of us would take our cap guns into the “new constructions” and have cap-gun wars (stalk around the house, surprize someone else and “shoot” them). After two hours of this inside a fully-"weather-proofed house (roof, exterior sheathing) with some interior walls, our ears were ringing so bad we thought it was raining on the autumn leaves as we walked home! By morning we could hear fine again for school, then we’d do it all again after school let out.

For all the laws and regulations “for the children” that have been passed in the last 25 years, the reality is that kids back in 1950 were safer. Perhaps it’s time for reset in a couple of years.