scenario...your views?

[twinkles**stars]

How would you react to this scenario?

Driving along a road you see a young boy in school uniform on his way to school waving a gun and knife at passing traffic.

Would you ignore him or take steps to ensure the gun and knife are 'toys' and not the real deal?

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@am*3 wrote:

Kids have been playing with toy guns for generations, are you denying this?.....

No, but I would add .. generations in the PAST. Times and attiudes change. As I said earlier, toy guns were very common when I was a  child (except at my house!).  They were not that common when my kids were little 22-25 years ago.

Buying a kid a toy that they can hold up to another kids face and pretend to shoot them dead, is not something most parents encourabe.

The police in Australia  don't like imitiation guns because they have been used in armed hold ups and the person held up suffers just as bad afterwards as if it was a real gun, as they can't tell at the time that it wasn't real.

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Toy guns are toy guns..... and yes they are everywhere.  Played with by generations of people.

[**meep**]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

I have bought them from Big w and toy r us, crazy clarks too.....oh yeah and the show bags........and no.....no paperwork to fill in either.

My children played with them, then got over it..... Toys are just that.   Toys.

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looking through those stores now.......can't see any.   Did you mean to say, they were everywhere?

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I still see them everywhere........

So do the parents who are currently buying them.

[icyfroth]

sometimes you wish you had a real one lol

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@icyfroth wrote:

sometimes you wish you had a real one lol

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lol, or at least a stun gun.

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Lots of assumptions siggie. I spoke directly with the principal, although at the time I had no idea who he was. No one laughed, least of all me. He did mention left over from Holloween, but did not laugh. I assumed (there's that word again) he thought it funny why else mention Holloween? The child in question does not live on that street....apparently he comes from the opposite side of the park to me. You can learn much when at the letter box 🙂 The distance is a short 1 k from my home to the school so yes the boy was close to school. The department rang me this afternoon for further details as the matter has been taken as serious, regardless of the gun being real or a toy. No school wishes to have students behaving in such a manner while in school uniform. Much the same as an employee in work uniform who could be sacked for unsavoury behaviour.

The boy needs to understand the implications of such actions for his own safety.

[**meep**]

Sorry    Ran out of ammo....

I capitulate.

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

Lots of assumptions siggie. I spoke directly with the principal, although at the time I had no idea who he was. No one laughed, least of all me. He did mention left over from Holloween, but did not laugh. I assumed (there's that word again) he thought it funny why else mention Holloween? The child in question does not live on that street....apparently he comes from the opposite side of the park to me. You can learn much when at the letter box 🙂 The distance is a short 1 k from my home to the school so yes the boy was close to school. The department rang me this afternoon for further details as the matter has been taken as serious, regardless of the gun being real or a toy. No school wishes to have students behaving in such a manner while in school uniform. Much the same as an employee in work uniform who could be sacked for unsavoury behaviour.

The boy needs to understand the implications of such actions for his own safety.

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    Yet you said he found it funny......  

    Poor kid, poor school and poor department........over a toy.

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I wonder what the principle said after the door was closed.....

[twinkles**stars]

You forgot about the poor me 😞 I may never recover.