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At some point in my young parenting life, I had no problems with toy guns because I had them as a kid. My kids don't have toy guns though. But recently, I caught my son playing a came he called "catch the bad man" in which he runs around shouting until the inevitable climax in which he catches up to and shots the "bad" man. I have always watched what my children watch as to not allow them to watch violent and questionable cartoons. I think he picked this up at his aunts house. None the less, it didn't take much for him to come to the conclusion that you shot bad people. This is NOT the less I am trying to pass on. I think toy guns and violent cartoons do indeed teach children that violence is OK makes the use of guns seem OK. I do not agree with giving kids toy guns anymore. If he didn't already know what guns do, I wouldn't have a problem with a water gun, but he does, so I say no to that also.

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There is no problem with a toy gun... I never heard of violence related to a toy obsession. I had a lot of toy guns in my childhood and never wanted to kill someone:) And if you never hand him such toy you will protect him from what?

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I have absolutely no problem at all with my children having water guns or any other toy guns. My oldest son got into trouble after purchasing an "air soft" BB gun, but that was a completely different situation. He was never in trouble with me about it (other than a little talk about his foolishness in showing the toys off to other people). Eventually, the state Attorney General issued an opinion that threw my son's case out of the courts. I could be tempted to get some "air soft" guns for all my children and myself to go out in the woods with.

If I had had my way, all of my children would have received gun safety training, and would have learned to shoot well and responsibly by the time they turned 12. However, my wife is from Britain, and carries the normal British aversion to guns.

Anyway, we have, at various times, had all sorts of toy guns in the house, including some that had really annoying sound effects.

You know what. After this discussion, I might just have to make or buy some elastic band guns to play with.

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Nighthawk, you hit some very important points! I'm not anti-gun, but rather, anti-education where it comes to firearm ownership. Too many people who own firearms have no clue as to proper cleaning, maintenence, handling, operation- the whole enchilada!

Personally, if/when the time comes that my husband takes one or both of our sons out hunting, I know darn well that it will not be before they are adept at fully disassembling, cleaning and reassembling their weapon to his satisfaction. Mind you, hubster's dad was a career military D.I., so he learned at his father's knee at a very young age. He was so skilled at such a tender age that his dad reveled in making his new recruits feel foolish for not being equal with this 4-foot-nothing little kid!

Rubber band guns can be fun as long as the rules are to aim only from the shoulders down.

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After having this topic active the last few days, when I saw this article about toy guns, I was almost giggling by the end of it.

https://www.townhall.com/columnists/pauljac...j20050123.shtml
From the very end of the article:

Have fun reading it!

Give your child a toy gun?

Maybe it is my British upbringing that brings out a dislike for guns. When my eldest Son was little, I had a no toy gun in the house policy. I didn't like the thought of him playing with something that in the real version was a deadly weapon.

I was really annoyed to find that on his 3rd birthday, my Husband's sister bought him a toy machine gun. It was very realistic, and it was accompanied with a 'Peter bunny' book! (Which to my mind was more age appropriate)


As my Son has got older, he has decided that he wants to do some military training, and regularly went for gun training.

I have now come to the conclusion as Nighthawk pointed out, that it is far better to receive correct gun safety training, and be wised up on guns, and have respect for them, instead of being completely ignorant to the devastation they can cause in the wrong hands.

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My main problem with toy guns is that they are made too realistic, as Fugi pointed out, and doubles the danger. When my son was young, even if there were no toy guns to play with, he and other kids would make toy guns from twigs, plastic pipe, and anything else they could find.

Water guns are a hoot, especially the Super Soakers

It's my intention to teach my daughter about guns and proper gun handling, and one day to actually own a gun for home safety.

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The advice you get these days just reminds you of the need for independent thinking from parents for the sake of saving your children from worldly nonsense.