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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> All of this aside, I can't help reflecting that I played with toy guns all
> the time as a child, and in fact my dad and I used to enact sizable battles
> with his Britains figures and Solido military vehicles. Despite this, I've
> never shot anyone nor used a gun in anger. I'm just not convinced that the
> representation of guns in toy form inclines a child to view a real gun as a
> toy, at least, not automatically. This is not to deny anyone the right to
> raise her child as she sees fit, but, to me, the "toy-guns-breed-violence"
> angle is a little too clean-cut to be realistic.
You might be right. It was the policy when I was raised, and it's the policy in
our house now. But it could be just coincidence that I came out OK (??), and my
kids seem to be tracking (but it's early) to come out OK too. So who knows...
(for those who don't know me well, I'm pro second amendment, have real guns in
my house, but don't allow toys not because of a "toy-guns-breed-violence"
angle, but rather because of a slight subtly different angle
"toy-guns-make-real-guns-seem-like-toys-and-that-is-bad-because-they-must-be-re
spected" )
++Lar at the client site in Zurich... but on my own machine again! I like the
Swiss attitude towards guns a fair bit.
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| (...) I understand your point, but to nitpick, it's Sarah's son who observes that "there's no hope," and in fact when she's confronted with the horror of her own violence (a la Swiss cheesing), she breaks down and finds that she can't murder an (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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