Arms Control

Do you remember squirt gun fights on hot summer days? Not the giant battery-powered “Super Soakers” you see now—those gallon-sized monsters that blast water 70 feet—but the little plastic ones that barely held an ounce or two and maybe shot eight feet if you were lucky. And then, of course, someone always had to raise the stakes: first water balloons, then buckets, until everyone was drenched.