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?

[**meep**]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

You mean ..... toy (Nerf)  gun.......

Once loaded....heaps of fun.

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Yes, that was the one I meant.  PITA

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   I wonder how many millions of nerf guns are sold in Australia each year.

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I suspect many.  They are very popular.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

You mean ..... toy (Nerf)  gun.......

Once loaded....heaps of fun.

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Yes, that was the one I meant.  PITA

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   I wonder how many millions of nerf guns are sold in Australia each year.

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I suspect many.  They are very popular.

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But only by those who can find them.......

Other toy guns, give kids just as much enjoyment........are also popular, and just as available.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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@my*mum wrote:

I have to confess, I did see toy guns for sale today at my corner IGA store - on a rack with heaps of those cheap kinda toys - mixed in amongst the doll kits and craft kits etc...

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   Good for you for being honest......

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I probably walk past that rack on a daily basis, (it's one of those swivel ones and on the way to the check out/cash registers) and have never paid any attention, but when I saw it today, I thought of this thread and thought "hmmmm (that's not me singing this time) I wonder...."

and there they were, some cap guns too.

I'm not too sure that any of them looked real though, maybe from a distance, but right in front of me they just looked like cheap plastic rubbish.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@my*mum wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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@my*mum wrote:

I have to confess, I did see toy guns for sale today at my corner IGA store - on a rack with heaps of those cheap kinda toys - mixed in amongst the doll kits and craft kits etc...

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   Good for you for being honest......

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I probably walk past that rack on a daily basis, (it's one of those swivel ones and on the way to the check out/cash registers) and have never paid any attention, but when I saw it today, I thought of this thread and thought "hmmmm (that's not me singing this time) I wonder...."

and there they were, some cap guns too.

I'm not too sure that any of them looked real though, maybe from a distance, but right in front of me they just looked like cheap plastic rubbish.

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    Drats, I was hoping you were singing again.....

   For the two dollars or so they charge.....I don't think they are built to last.....like everything else these days.

   Cheap plastic rubbish, reminds me of some cars on todays market....they look like toys too....

[**meep**]

But only by those who can find them.....

Really?  I thought they were available pretty much everywhere ....hmmmm, well there you go.

[cherry*135]

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@nevynreally wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

There were no guns (apart from the water ones) in the toy stores/department stores at the mall today (incl Target and Kmart  and others)

Obviously I wouldn't think they are in the lolly aisle, I don't know why you had to add that apart from trying to be snarky.

Something no-one else has resorted to in this thread so far.

I didn't go to the discount/variety stores.

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Target and Kmart are variety stores.

Choose to ignore the rest.

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I said discount/variety stores.. like Reject shop, Crazy Clark's or whatever they are called in other states. They have cheaper, more no brand name toys, than other bigger chain stores.

I would still be at the shops if I looked in all those today, but I will, next time I need to go into one.

[nevynreally]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

seriously....some here are sharp as a bowling ball. Yes you can buy very unrealistic looking toy guns sheesh but as for guns that look to be the real deal. Not for ages in SA

Im sure the situation would have been different if the kid was waving a nerf gun.. **bleep**

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Yes.

Hard to believe some people believe you can't buy toy guns for kids anymore, realistic or not.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@**meep** wrote:

But only by those who can find them.....

Really?  I thought they were available pretty much everywhere ....hmmmm, well there you go.

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  Some get distracted by the Lolly isle.....giggle....

[cherry*135]

I was going to say at least you stick to the topic, siggie, and don't bother taking personal shots at other posters....

I don't think anyone said you can't buy toy guns.. but we/they did ask what shops sold them and that they haven't noticed them in a lot of stores themselves.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Have we been reading the same thread?

Don't shoot the messenger....

If you have to then just fire away....

or are you just running out of ammo.....I am an easy target.........