Anonymous wrote:You and the goodie bag lady need to start a support group.

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun.

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.

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.

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.

No, that's a cop out! Totally do something real with your time. Stop picking on little boys. You are just too lazy to do anything real so you take out your misguided logic on the young.

By giving toy guns to little boys you are starting a real problem. Please don't worry about me, I've been using my time to create enriching opportunities for young and not so young people around the world. Children are happy playing with simple toys, learning to make friends by sharing those simple toys, not pretending to shoot each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun.

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.

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.

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.

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.

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By giving toy guns to little boys you are starting a real problem. Please don't worry about me, I've been using my time to create enriching opportunities for young and not so young people around the world. Children are happy playing with simple toys, learning to make friends by sharing those simple toys, not pretending to shoot each other.

NP here. You're being ridiculous.

I had assumed PP was being facetious?

Regardless, I am very, very strongly anti-gun (DH worked for an anti-gun group for years), and now that I have three high school boys, I can tell you that it is just about impossible to prevent children--mostly boys, in my observation--from playing pretend with guns. We did not buy our child toy guns, but once the Star Wars phases began, what do you do with the "blasters"? What do you do when all their little friends come over with their Star Wars figures and weapons? As the boys grew older, there were laser-tag parties, Nerf-gun parties, pool parties wtih water guns, etc., etc. And, yes, we had a couple of our boys chew guns out of toast. When we went for walks in the park, sticks became guns.

And yet, I am 100% positive that my boys are very strongly anti-gun. They have no desire to shoot a real gun, and think that legislation allowing guns on public places is stupid.

Don't over simplify the toy guns->gun lovers. Do you believe that by giving your kid a doctor's kit that they'll suddenly not be afraid of shots? Or that by giving a boy a doll he'll really love babies? Honestly, by protesting too much, your kids will end up hiding their play from you.

We decided after a few years that while we wouldn't buy toy guns--and explained why--, we would allow them as part of an action figure, when friends brought them over (or purchased them as a gift, e.g., Nerf gun present), and when they were part of a party theme (e.g., laser tag). We didn't interfere with bread or sticks as guns, unless there was imminent danger involved (which, honestly, happened more when they used sticks as swords--another play-theme that you won't be able to squash entirely).

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By giving toy guns to little boys you are starting a real problem. Please don't worry about me, I've been using my time to create enriching opportunities for young and not so young people around the world. Children are happy playing with simple toys, learning to make friends by sharing those simple toys, not pretending to shoot each other.

NP here. You're being ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun.

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.

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.

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.

No, that's a cop out! Totally do something real with your time. Stop picking on little boys. You are just too lazy to do anything real so you take out your misguided logic on the young.

By giving toy guns to little boys you are starting a real problem. Please don't worry about me, I've been using my time to create enriching opportunities for young and not so young people around the world. Children are happy playing with simple toys, learning to make friends by sharing those simple toys, not pretending to shoot each other.

Anonymous wrote:I personally would be fine with it if someone gave my kid that toy. But *I* wouldn't give a toy gun as a birthday gift because I don't know how the other family feels about guns and I'm respectful of the fact that other families have different policies and opinions. In the same vein I wouldn't give a religious book or a Nativity set as a gift. I'm sure it would be fine with some people, but it wouldn't be with others. And there are so many other neutral, fun gifts out there anyway!

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun.

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.

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.

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.

No, that's a cop out! Totally do something real with your time. Stop picking on little boys. You are just too lazy to do anything real so you take out your misguided logic on the young.

Anonymous wrote:PP here. We don't own weapons of any kind. But dh can fire a rifle and so can I. Both of my kids played with nerf guns. One is pretty damn accurate with a bow and arrow.

No inclination of violence in any of us.

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun.

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:My son had a birthday party this weekend where he received a nurf gun. My hope was that my son wouldn't know what it was(we don't have any toy guns) and we could exchange it for something else. He however knew exactly what it was and loved it, much to my surprise and would be very upset if we made him return it. Do I let him play with it and hope he forgets about it or do I need to stand my ground and tell him this is not a safe toy and have him return it for something else.

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are not toys. Masculinity doesn't increase using a gun.

You're an idiot. A little boy doesn't think like this.

My message is to fathers. You are the idiot who doesn't think.

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.

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.