Please Do Not Buy Other People’s Kids Guns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, Costco Pizza Lady?

Didn't you just your kid's party at a laser tag venue? Because I'm having trouble under how you can host a party dedicated to guns and shooting (ok, "zapping") and then get worked up about someone giving your child a shooting/zapping-related item.

Op- you are nuts!!

[Anonymous]

OP, I agree with you. But how do you reconcile your post with the fact that the party was at a laser tag place?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I agree with you. But how do you reconcile your post with the fact that the party was at a laser tag place?

It could have been one of those places where the lasers come out of Labrador puppies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would infuriate me too. Trashy, thoughtless and very annoying.

That person would never get another invitation.

Your parties aren’t that fun anyway, margaret

[Anonymous]

Why is a kid that age still doing gift parties’?

Also, if you object to an item like that, you should just throw it away, not donate for other kids.

[Anonymous]

Here’s a PSA:

People often pick gifts based on the party theme. So, if you have a princess party expect princess gifts, super hero parties will yield superhero gifts and so on.

Your laser tag party was all about shooting people and playing with toy guns. You literally paid for your son and all his friends to shoot each other with toy guns for 2 hours. Of course other parents are going to give your kid on theme gifts!

Your theme was toy guns.

You’re the crazy one for hosting a toy gun party and getting mad that your son got toy guns as a gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never encountered an anti-nerf gun person IRL. Probably because the whole family is weird and my kids wouldn't be friends with them anyways.

Lol. Agreed. I've raised 3 kids in DC (youngest is in 4th grade). Never encountered an anti-nerf fun person IRL. My kids must have screened them out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many threads does one have for his or her kid’s birthday party?

LOL

[Anonymous]

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

op said "the guns will disappear" so presumably this was more than one gun. Sure wish OP would have been more specific. There are very few guns that are in the price range of a birthday party gift for a tween.

it could have been a nerf gun or a water gun or a BB or anything else. Who the heck cares. They're all shockingly thoughtless.

Some of us are actually trying to raise decent citizens. You all should be SUPPORTIVE of that, not trying to sabotage it.

Do you really believe that letting kids play with squirt guns is not raising your kids to be decent citizens? You are either crazy or this is parody.

[Anonymous]

Don’t have parties where people get shot at with lasers, for God’s sakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I agree with you. But how do you reconcile your post with the fact that the party was at a laser tag place?

It could have been one of those places where the lasers come out of Labrador puppies.

A Puke Party? My DC was invited to one of those. Never again -- and I blocked the birthday child's mother on facebook, too. Don't you realize there are sick animals in the world who need our help? They have feelings and needs, too. They are not toys.

[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.

At 13 DS played with nerf guns. We had many, many gun safety and gun violence related educational conversations in our home. He was not allowed to play games like Call of Duty where he was pretending to shoot an actual person with a gun (even though what would have been in his hand was a controller that was not shaped like a gun).

Every home is different. Some are pro-gun of all sort, some are anti-gun of all sort and some are in the middle.

I would not assume it was okay to purchase a gun for another child but I also would not go off on someone who purchased one for mine. If I felt the need to say anything at all to the parent I would calmly let them know that i realized they meant no harm, we just had different points of view on what was and was not okay as far as guns were concerned.

If you come at someone with anger you are less likely to get anywhere and I've had enough of that in this country.

Can't we all just talk without bashing? We have a better chance of learning from each other.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to bust out my Nerf guns today and have an all out war on my inflatable zombie Nerf targets today. Sounds more fun than going to Costco for pizza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would interpret a laser tag birthday party as permission to receive a nerf gun as a gift.

If you're opposed to playing with you guns, then how does the laser tag party work?

x1000 As a matter of fact yesterday I was at the store buying Christmas presents for my nephews. One recent birthday party was paint ball and one was laser tag. I was mightily tempted to buy those boys some Nerf guns and I know they would have loved them. However, my SIL is bat-sh*t crazy and I know she would lose her stuff just like OP. So the boys are getting board games. Don't get me wrong, board games are great and these are fun board games but it is nothing like the fun those two little guys would have had with Nerf guns.

[Anonymous]

This is kind of the equivalent of having a vegan birthday party at a Brazilian Steakhouse.