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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:34:32 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, John D. Forinash writes:
> In article <FwHDFI.94z@lugnet.com>,
> Deidre Rushton Brumby <drb@tasmail.com> wrote:
> > So what do other parents do with Lego guns or is it not an issue?
>
> I'm not a parent, so I don't really know, but when I was a kid, I was
> really annoyed that Lego policemen didn't carry guns. It wasn't so much
> that I wanted to shoot something, it was because police officers carry
> guns. That's the way things are in reality, and I wanted my fantasy
> to map onto something resembling reality as I knew it. [0]
>
> I didn't find out for many years that there are a number of European
> countries where police officers do not carry guns.
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> This is one reason why I don't think I would remove guns from a Lego
> set for a kid. Simple fact was, in the old west, people _did_ tend to
> carry firearm-- and things _did_ tend to get violent. If I want to make
> sure a kid's not going to be violent, I don't know that denying history
> is the way to do it. Perhaps at younger ages, the appropriate response
> is to make sure that the kid doesn't get, say, a Wild West set. Later
> on, I think I'd make sure that the kid understands that yes, that's
> the way it was, and yes, that's not the way it is now, and these are
> the many reasons why we've gotten more civilized over the years.
>
> Or, we like to think we're more civilized, at least. :)
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> It's been said that conflict is the heart of drama. What most of
> America doesn't seem to realize these days is that conflict is
> not necessarily violent, nor armed-- but it _can_ be. Sure,
> you can have good stories of Tigger cheating at Pooh-Sticks,
> but you can also have the police cornering the evil madman who's
> threatening to blow up the entirely of Legopolis. (And they say,
> "Do your worst, bomber scum! We _live_ to rebuild our city!)
> I don't think that cornering a mad bomber and using guns to do
> it is unhealthy. Piglet blowing away Tigger for cheating at Pooh-
> Sticks probably is...
>
> Supervision, I think, is key. Certainly not 24/7, but play time is not
> just "drop the kid in the room and let him play." I suspect that given
> proper supervision and instruction when the opportunities arise that
> most other problems sort themselves out-- and I suspect this is one
> of them.
>
> On the other hand, what do I know about child psychology? :)
>
> [0] My police officers tended to carry my spacemen's guns. After all,
> without little green monster aliens to zap, what point's a gun have
> to a spaceman? Unless, of course, _my brother's_ spacemen are around.
> We could zap them, but then, I hear they're not even really mini-fig,
> they're creations of some demon evil monster! But seriously, reality as
> I knew it as space-men go was the Apollo project, and they carried golf
> clubs and experiment doohickeys, not zap guns... If there's no evil
> LGMs running around, there's no good reason to have to zap someone.
>
> -JDF
> -
> --
> J.D. Forinash ,-.
> foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
> The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
I agree....I dont think "Out of sight...out of mind" is the answer to our gun
problems....The key is education......if a kid picks up a toy and hits someone
with it....you take it away....the kid will just find something else to hit
someone with....you have to educate them....would you not let your child play
baseball...??? cause a baseball bat is a very popular WEAPON....along with
golf clubs...criket bats....etc.....ALSO....what do we all do with the
CROSSBOWS that come in the castle range....???? considering they do more
damage than guns....????
Dont get me wrong...I dont agree with people using weapons to harm each other,
but I think its not the weapons that do the damage....its an un-educated mind
that does....!!!!
Kev.... : )
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