Comments on: Do you think kids should be able to play with toy guns? http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns wiping asses and taking names since 2006 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:28:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Cornellian http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-401 Cornellian Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-401 Yes. But not like the one pictured. That\'s likely to get a kid shot... Yes. But not like the one pictured. That\’s likely to get a kid shot…

]]> By: Mike Salazar http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-402 Mike Salazar Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-402 I find it disheartening to see bright orange toy guns in the store. I understand why they do it (they dont want cops to accidentally kill kids) but there is something wrong about seeing a bright orange Han Solo gun. My parents had a rule that I could have toy guns as long as they didn\'t shoot anything except water out of them. (Of course we would then fill the water guns with other liquids) I find it interesting that people are concerned that kids shouldn\'t find pleasure in pretending to pack heat so that is why they are against toy guns. It is interesting to me because even if you take the guns away, kids will still end up building them with legos or using their fingers to pretend to shoot someone. I find it disheartening to see bright orange toy guns in the store. I understand why they do it (they dont want cops to accidentally kill kids) but there is something wrong about seeing a bright orange Han Solo gun.

My parents had a rule that I could have toy guns as long as they didn\’t shoot anything except water out of them. (Of course we would then fill the water guns with other liquids)

I find it interesting that people are concerned that kids shouldn\’t find pleasure in pretending to pack heat so that is why they are against toy guns. It is interesting to me because even if you take the guns away, kids will still end up building them with legos or using their fingers to pretend to shoot someone.

]]> By: FloridaMommy http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-403 FloridaMommy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-403 I don\'t understand why men always think that boys need to play with guns. The days of playing cowboys and indians are over. Kids these days grow up with the images of gangster violence, let alone the images of war we face every day. They don\'t need to reinact it to have fun. Both my sons have never wanted to play with guns because we have never given them reason to think it is fun to. I don\’t understand why men always think that boys need to play with guns. The days of playing cowboys and indians are over. Kids these days grow up with the images of gangster violence, let alone the images of war we face every day. They don\’t need to reinact it to have fun.

Both my sons have never wanted to play with guns because we have never given them reason to think it is fun to.

]]> By: Noodad http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-404 Noodad Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-404 FloridaMommy, I know that it is sometimes hard for women to understand (my wife certainly doesnt) but there are somethings that boys always tend to gravatate to. Maybe it is some psychological thing of how males deal with conflict physically. Anyways, that could be why you don\'t see a whole lot of female hunters, fishers, or paintball players. Mike, I thought the same thing about the Han Solo gun LOL. FloridaMommy,

I know that it is sometimes hard for women to understand (my wife certainly doesnt) but there are somethings that boys always tend to gravatate to.

Maybe it is some psychological thing of how males deal with conflict physically. Anyways, that could be why you don\’t see a whole lot of female hunters, fishers, or paintball players.

Mike, I thought the same thing about the Han Solo gun LOL.

]]> By: FloridaMommy http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-405 FloridaMommy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-405 You are right. I recognize the appeal, I just don\'t understand it. You are right. I recognize the appeal, I just don\’t understand it.

]]> By: Jonathon http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-406 Jonathon Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-406 I actually feel lucky that I get to avoid this issue, as I have a daughter who doesn\'t seem all that interested in guns... But let me offer this: I was -- like lots of boys -- draw to (and allowed to) play with guns. However, I don\'t think it\'s that guns are inherently interesting or attractive, but that they\'re glamorized and glorified in cartoons, movies and other media targeted to boys. Hence, we think they\'re cool. That might be over-simplified, but I don\'t understand why encouraging violent behavior -- however seemingly innocuous -- is brushed over as \"good clean fun\", just because the dead people (or things, or whatever), are only theoretical. I actually feel lucky that I get to avoid this issue, as I have a daughter who doesn\’t seem all that interested in guns…

But let me offer this:

I was — like lots of boys — draw to (and allowed to) play with guns. However, I don\’t think it\’s that guns are inherently interesting or attractive, but that they\’re glamorized and glorified in cartoons, movies and other media targeted to boys.

Hence, we think they\’re cool.

That might be over-simplified, but I don\’t understand why encouraging violent behavior — however seemingly innocuous — is brushed over as \”good clean fun\”, just because the dead people (or things, or whatever), are only theoretical.

]]> By: ThreePete http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-407 ThreePete Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-407 I don\'t allow toy guns in our household. I don\'t mind my kids playing more \"violent\" videogames, but that\'s where it stops for us. I don\’t allow toy guns in our household. I don\’t mind my kids playing more \”violent\” videogames, but that\’s where it stops for us.

]]> By: Mrs. Noodad http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-408 Mrs. Noodad Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-408 We\'re not at the age of having to have this debate just yet as our daughter who is 4 has yet to even mention the word, and our son is only 20 months old, but I obviously have been building opinions on this one for a while. I try to be realistic about it all and understand that eventually they\'re going to turn other toys and their hands into \"play\" guns, but I don\'t think I need to supply them with the toy plastic versions. I try to choose and buy toys that have positive values and that will help build my children\'s character. I find it hard to believe a toy gun would ever do so. Pretending to kill or maim someone is hardly entertainment, educational or valuable. We\’re not at the age of having to have this debate just yet as our daughter who is 4 has yet to even mention the word, and our son is only 20 months old, but I obviously have been building opinions on this one for a while. I try to be realistic about it all and understand that eventually they\’re going to turn other toys and their hands into \”play\” guns, but I don\’t think I need to supply them with the toy plastic versions. I try to choose and buy toys that have positive values and that will help build my children\’s character. I find it hard to believe a toy gun would ever do so. Pretending to kill or maim someone is hardly entertainment, educational or valuable.

]]> By: rupertz http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-411 rupertz Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-411 No! No!

]]> By: Toh http://www.noodad.com/wp/master_debaters/do_you_think_kids_should_be_able_to_play_with_toy_guns/comment-page-1#comment-413 Toh Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-413 ...Cause i\'ve been doing it a lot... and now I\'m a convinced anti-militarist and anti-violence men (and future dad)... so... Whatever remember that he will always pick a stik and do Bang Bang... So that\'s just what is around him, that gonna make him realise... Don\'t frustrate kids (and adults) and they\'ll be (quite) OK... …Cause i\’ve been doing it a lot… and now I\’m a convinced anti-militarist and anti-violence men (and future dad)… so…
Whatever remember that he will always pick a stik and do Bang Bang…

So that\’s just what is around him, that gonna make him realise…

Don\’t frustrate kids (and adults) and they\’ll be (quite) OK…

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