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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun. [/quote]

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.[/quote]

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.[/quote]

What makes you think if Nerf guns are allowed real guns are? My DH is anti-gun. He thinks all guns should be illegal, including hunting. Your logic is flawed.

Go affect real change and work on our society's real gun problem. Picking on small boys with Nerf guns doesn't address the problem of real gun violence. Although picking on small boys is easier for you, I know.[/quote]

One of the starting points with guns is when you buy a toy gun to your young child. A boy gets the message that it is ok to play with guns. You are teaching violence from early age. And that's a real problem.[/quote]

No.  The problem comes in not teaching properly about guns.  Real guns.  No training, no respect for the weapon.  No clue what they really do.  A real gun is NOT a toy, and does not belong in the hands of someone not trained to handle it.  A real gun is never stored with the ammunition, etc.

But... that doesn't go well with they hysteria over guns.  A nerf gun doesn't teach kids to be a mass murderer.  Exposure to nerf guns doesn't teach a kid to kill people.

Did nobody ever play cops and robbers?  Or war games?  Maybe not anymore.

I was in Army cadets.  I learned how to handle a weapon.  My kids were given that same option.  If they want to so much as shoot a gopher on their grandmother's farm, they need to take the safety course first.[/quote]

Agree that the big issue is the proper use of weapons, but it comes down to parenting and part of that is about toys.  We do not allow toy weapons except a few squirt guns.  Our children have been to Walter Reed many times where they see the impact guns have.  They get guns are not meant to be toys and are weapons.  When they are old enough, they can learn properly to use a gun at a gun range and right now take fencing lessons.  There is a time and place and teaching respect for guns includes not using them as toys.[/quote]

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