Please Do Not Buy Other People’s Kids Guns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn't allow guns (not Nerf, not water guns, no guns period). When DS was given Nerf guns, we exchanged them for a gift of his choice (if with a gift receipt) or donated (and we still allowed a gift of his choice, paid for by us). I would never give a gun and a gift, and am shocked others think this is ok

But would you have had a birthday party with toy guns? This gift was given at a lazer tag party.

Also, how do you justify donating a toy that you think is harmful to kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn't allow guns (not Nerf, not water guns, no guns period). When DS was given Nerf guns, we exchanged them for a gift of his choice (if with a gift receipt) or donated (and we still allowed a gift of his choice, paid for by us). I would never give a gun and a gift, and am shocked others think this is ok

I’m shocked you think nerf guns are bad. I grew up playing with them and I’m fine. Didn’t you?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, if you are hosting a birthday at a later tag place you are ok with “guns”.

[Anonymous]

No one should ever give someone else’s child a real firearm.


Now if you’re talking about a toy, OP, for a teen at a laser tag venue no less...

I don’t know how you can fix that kind of disordered thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, if you are hosting a birthday at a later tag place you are ok with “guns”.

Later=lazer

[Anonymous]

I’m just about as anti-gun as you can get and I’m ok with nerf guns, water guns, and laser tag.

[Anonymous]

Real guns are hundreds of dollars. No one is buying them for random classmate/casual friend for a birthday party.
We all know OP is talking about a Nerf gun.

[Anonymous]

This is like being offended if someone gives your kid swim fins at a swim party. How dare they!

[Anonymous]

Did you not just have the party at a laser tag place?

[Anonymous]

This insane conflation of guns with nerf/water guns really makes me question raising my kids in the DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This insane conflation of guns with nerf/water guns really makes me question raising my kids in the DCUM.

*DMV, obviously

[Anonymous]

Friend of mine grew up with a mom who wouldn't buy guns--this was back in the 60s--but they were allowed to make or improvise them (like scraps of wood). I didn't buy toy guns but when DS got to be about 12 we bought him a Daisy air rifle, although it didn't get a lot of use. I was kind of susceptible to a degree of throw-back parenting, have to admit. And water guns were fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just had 13 yo birthday party —Costco Pizza lady.

Why would a parent buy someone else’s child any form of gun? So absolutely thoughtless. The guns will vanish and you just threw money into the wind. Do not assume that because you let your kids play with guns that anyone else does. Rant over.

Sorry, you are effing nuts. No one bought your child a real gun. A Nerf gun isn’t a gun.

[Anonymous]

Nerf gun - all good, water gone all good, Laser tag guns - all good.

Older teens - paintball gun and air soft also come into play (but not at 13).

Everything else is a no go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friend of mine grew up with a mom who wouldn't buy guns--this was back in the 60s--but they were allowed to make or improvise them (like scraps of wood). I didn't buy toy guns but when DS got to be about 12 we bought him a Daisy air rifle, although it didn't get a lot of use. I was kind of susceptible to a degree of throw-back parenting, have to admit. And water guns were fine.

I didn’t buy my kids need or water guns. I told them I didn’t like them but I also let them make their own out of sticks or whatever and when they were old enough to have some money they bought a few of their own. This year, two of my kids bought them for each other for Christmas.