"Buy War Toys for Christmas" by Roy Zimmerman

[JoLo752]

Found this song won't go away. Just keeps running through my mind...Had the chance to catch the new movie Arthur Christmas this pass season. Yep do believe grandma got run over by a rain deer this year -- know they are now retired.

[ekaterina1983]

maby christions should lock in load! The jews want us to just work for nothing well there the ceo makeing lots of bucks.

[TheMarbleIndex3000]

Hello Roy. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your craft. The social commentary that your songs put forth are so very important in waking people up to their contradictory actions. I hope that one day you will be recognized alongside Guthrie, Ochs and the like for what you have contributed. It means a lot to me to see someone trying to raise attention to such crucial issues in a time where so many "artists" are nothing of the sort.

[g0dh4x]

Poop.

[lilifyre]

Now those same war toys would at least be appropriate for Chanukah....commemoration of a military victory!!!!

[desertsongtv]

Awesome! I'm adding this to the Coventry Carol and I Wonder As I Wander for this year's setlist.

[TitaniumTicTac]

Please make a song about Herman Cain. Please. Please. xD

[DackIsBack]

Buy A Gun For Your Son! (I assume you where inspired by this song?)

[PinkRangerVida]

So. Freaking. Appropriate.

[darkblood626]

And when they get socks they will just point there fingers and go BANG just like the way it was before NERF

[MrSchpankme]

Beat Your Kids (spare the rod and spoil the child), they make better voluntary, US Military personnel and Guantanamo Bay Jailers. Hey, someone has to go around the world killing all the crazy people and their children - RIGHT - ? Oh yeah and one more thing; through mistakes in Biblical Translations, I found out that Jonah actually ate the well. >:)

[treehugger99999]

Omission accomplished XD Roy, you need to come perform in Toronto.

[kaldrenon]

Roy, all politics aside, I still love your music because you've written dozens of songs using only your voice and an acoustic guitar, and for all that they have a consistent style, they don't sound or feel exactly the same. You demonstrate vocal, instrumental, and poetic versatility in every song. Unlike a lot of current pop artists, when I see you have a new song, I actually think "Ooh, I wonder what -this one- will sound like!"

[shanecar84]

Awesome :D

[rich2rock]

You sir are a GREAT artist!

[falconwind00]

I fully support gun control and I'm against all military conflict unless its UN peacekeeping. I play military video games and, while I don't own any guns, have a geeky interest in weaponry. I enjoy these things in the fictional sense; but I abhor these tools of death in real life.But like many people, I have the mental fortitude and maturity to know what's fantasy, and what is the horrific truth of real violence and war. Unfortunately, some kids don't mature when they grow up.

[coredumperror]

@falconwind00 That's a pretty accurate description of myself, too. Thanks for being more articulate than I tend to get.

[jackfire55]

@falconwind00 If u support gun control u know very lil about the world. Youtube

John Stossel: Links Gun Control to Higher Crime Rates

And see way I say that.

[gamerunknown]

@jackfire55

Suicide rates of children in houses with guns are higher than child deaths due to break ins in houses without guns. Firearm homicide rates are 30* higher in the US than the UK for example, with the murder rate in the US being 4* that of the UK in general (kind of scary to think that 3* that number die due to lack of health insurance according to Harvard Medical School). Ease of murder is a significant factor in deciding whether to murder someone or not.

[ThePwnzord]

@gamerunknown What the episode on Gun control from Bullshit by Penn and Teller.

[gamerunknown]

@ThePwnzord

I don't like Penn and Teller* and won't accept their authority unless you're pointing me towards a peer reviewed article. Care to summarise any of their points?

*They had an episode about political correctness where they sympathised with a fascist that was later jailed.

[jackp6]

@falconwind00

Ever heard that all wars are created by the Rothschild Maffia, the Banking Kartel and the Big Maffia Corporations?

Peacekeeping is nothing else as Terror / Control for those Global Criminals.

[SilentToe]

@falconwind00

This is one of the smartest comments i have read here in a long time.



[alvisc2002]

@falconwind00 UN peacekeeping isn't peacekeeping bro. you should do some research on the many many innocent people they've killed in the name of "peace"

[woohookittys]

Better to be playing soldier than to be a real one. Plus, you gotta admit it, if you guys had Call of Duty back when you were kids you'd have played it to death too.

[rbrtptrck]

I wish you did hour-long videos. Such fun. Thanks so much. Happy holidays. "Omission accomplished," indeed. So funny.

[soundslave]

Little boys have been playing with toy guns generations. It's traditional Roy. Just like girls playing with ponies and dolls.

[Topmonhit]

@soundslave 1. Which, of course, is rooted in societal thinking and in no way a hard, natural fact.

2. My Little Pony + Internet = Wait what.

Of course the internet (and nature) are in no way traditional.

[soundslave]

@Topmonhit Males are built to be aggressive and territorial. It is in our genes.

[rg0057]

@soundslave , on average, yes, but it's not a rule that all males are aggressive and territorial.

[Topmonhit]

@soundslave Lots of people would disagree with you.

But of course, lots would agree, too!

So basically you're saying that the reason we have divided countries that fight and bicker all the time is because we have a patriarchal society led by men who are built to be aggressive and territorial?

BRING ON THE MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

[soundslave]

@Topmonhit you're absolutely right. We can claim to be advanced beings, but when it comes down to it we're just chimps in clothing. Hormones and primal urges dicated our behaviour even when we don't realise it.

[Keovar]

@Topmonhit

Patriarchy began with the agricultural revolution about 10k years ago, which is only 5% of the time that h.s.sapiens has existed. Look at some of our closest evolutionary cousins, the bonobos (look for TED talks on them), and you can get an idea of what a matriarchal culture could look like.

[Etimos]

@Keovar I dont know where you get your facts, but I'm fairly certain humans have always been patriarchal, and in fact most apes are. Your choice of Bonobos as your example is a bit odd, as the other four great apes (gorillas, chimps, etc) are patriarchal. As for what a matriarchal society would look like, apart from the gender of the leaders, there's actually little difference in chimp versus bonobo society, except of course for their hyper-sexuality, I suppose.

[Keovar]

@Etimos

Bonobos are matriarchal, and they have a high oxytocin response which is triggered by the sexuality they use for social bonding. Bonobos, like humans, have sex whether or not the female can possibly get pregnant, they kiss and have sex face-to-face. Things like leg length, their scalp hair, etc. make them more humanlike than the common chimps. There's too much to list here... Just search for bonobos on TED talks and Wikipedia or something.

[baxtar1963]

You put the Camel in Camel toe

[TheSecretEye]

Put the Missile in the mistletoe...xD

[megamogx]

Greatness!

[InvincibleIronyMan]

Great! But I thought you were going to give playing and songwriting lessons under the rubric of the Starving Ear. Maybe I misheard, but I got my guitar all tuned up and everything!

[carolcolelewis]

Fantastic, as always! Hey, the UUCLC has moved to the Kelseyville Methodist Church - a great venue for a concert! Let us know when you're back in town and we'll get something set up!

[TitaniumTicTac]

You're just too awesome, Roy.

[whatisahumans]

I was just watching a youtube video of Buy a Gun for Your Son by Tom Paxton the other day.

[DwayneJKing]

This is really good.

=)

[andymckinneyacoustic]

Been waiting for this for ages, nice one

[byrus1]

Brilliant, as usual.

[EdwardHowton]

The Daily Show had a moment of Zen the other day showing a lovely opportunity for parents to get a picture of their children with Santa Claus.

While the kids carried the gun of their choice.

And then they could fire the guns.

Children.

Appropriate song is appropriate.

Did I mention that the moment of Zen was showing a clip from Fox "News"? I forgot to mention it at first because it's so freaking obvious that they'd show it, wouldn't they? Kids and guns. "War on Christmas" alright.

[BTsar]

Great.

[thewhinykid]

This is brilliant. So true.

[NinthNova]

You are a very funny guy.