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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 02:05:28 GMT
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Deidre Rushton Brumby <drb@tasmail.com> wrote:
So what do other parents do with Lego guns or is it not an issue?

We don't have kids yet, but we've talked about what we will do. We'll not
buy sets which blatently have a lot of guns (like the wild west, and many of
the pirates sets), and we will remove them from sets that do.


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  Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
 
I have a nephew that plays with me, and his mother insists that no guns are allowed in our play. I remove all Lego guns, but it amazes me, because everything he builds has some sort of weapon. (When you are 4 or 5, anything that you put your hands (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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  What do other parents do with Lego guns?
 
Following on from the topic of "small action boys" and Lego stereotyping in loc.au, what do other parents do with the guns in their Lego sets? Until recently I'd only ever bought one set with guns (Pirate skeleton cave) and I threw them straight in (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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