Toy Guns

[meh_too]

Would you allow a 4 year old boy to play with a toy gun?

[patchoo78]

I played with toy guns, made guns out of pegs in the absence of guns (I had male cousins around my age). I also had toy bow and arrow sets and none of these turned me into a homocidal maniac, I also play violent video games but have no intention of putting this into practice.. 

I still play with toy guns now. I have a collection of NERF guns and I still don't want to kill anyone. My cousin did join the army but not as a soldier, he's in disaster relief I think... I like to call him Captain FIGJAM :^O

[freddie*rooster]

Is there such a thing as an imaginary gun?

[bella_again]

Nope not here but mainly because of the attitude that comes with the game.  I do remember as kids playing bows and arrows with a few injuries (oops!) lol But generally if its a game that incites children to behave badly and trade insults then nope not happening here.  If its a game that fosters creativity and team work then absolutley.

[purple.cow]

 If its a game that fosters creativity and team work then absolutley.

I'd say that the Indians did a pretty fair job of team work on Custer :^O

[sniper_patrol]

Is there such a thing as an imaginary gun?

Of course there is Freddie.:-)

Many years ago in my whipper snapper years my friends and I ran around pretending we had guns. Used to hold our arms out and yell bangeddy bang bang and your opponent would fall over pretending to be dead.

It was all well and good when one day I was pretending to shoot a friend by saying bangeddy bang bang and he replied with tanketty tank tank. I had no chance so fell to the ground quick smart. I was so outmatched.:^O

[the_great_she_elephant]

Is there such a thing as an imaginary gun?

Of course there is Freddie.:-)

Many years ago in my whipper snapper years my friends and I ran around pretending we had guns. Used to hold our arms out and yell bangeddy bang bang and your opponent would fall over pretending to be dead.

It was all well and good when one day I was pretending to shoot a friend by saying bangeddy bang bang and he replied with tanketty tank tank. I had no chance so fell to the ground quick smart. I was so outmatched.:^O

Pity you weren't in my family, Yoda. When we played war games or cowboys and Indians we used to carry imaginary boxes filled with a substance called liver (rhymes with diver) powder. If someone on our side got shot, all we had to do was sprinkle them with this powder and chant 'Liver, liver, liver,' over them and they would immediately come to life again.:^O

[sniper_patrol]

Ah yes, she ele, The days when imagination ruled.

[catsnknots]

anyway... toy guns are not the problem today... if you are teaching your kids to play "cowboys and indians" now that is a real problem.... 

cops and robbers is much more politically correct. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

Alas, Cat, my days of teaching my kids to play anything are long gone - even my grandchildren are young adults (bar one who lives too far away to play with)