Toy guns - OK or not??

[Feijoa Mum]

I dont allow guns in my house either. Despite my protests my family still used to buy water guns and would call me mean when I confiscated them. I just think that of all the toys there are for them to play with why does it have to be a gun?
In saying that though boys being boys I guess, once mine hit a certain age the lego became a great gun making tool much to my dismay.

[BellyBelly]

We don't have them here either, and never will.

[boomba]

Nope no guns here...but DS1 has pretended wiht his hands??? No idea where it came from ?

[Lulu]

I won't have it either but I WILL have water pistols - much fun-ness!
But they can and do make guns out of anything...

[AliBaby]

I dont like toy guns either.

[ladybird11]

Yes, I'm certainly not comfortable with them either - DH thinks I'm over reacting- but I have 'hidden' the toy gun - in the bottom of the rubbish bin , no one will miss it there!

[Rouge]

I think the thing to remember is, that toys are just a prop. The ideas about violence stem from television/movies, playgrounds, computer games and so forth. So the best way to combat violence in children and lets face it guns are violent, is to talk about it with your kids. And make sure the material you subject your children to is age appropriate. I think if you do one and not the other it's a waste of time. You can take away the violent props but they still have fists... KWIM?

[Lulu]

Mitch is only allowed to 'shoot' us with jellybeans, but he loaded his 'gun' with kisses yesterday....

[Phteven]

awwww, that's so sweet.

[Phteven]

Speak of the devil.... Yasin is busy right now shooting his brother with a pair of trouser hangers.
TBH I've retty much reached a point where I barely see the need for toys. We left Australia with about 4 trains and a colouring book. Since then they've picked up 3 cars, a plush reindeer, some snow 'shovels' and some lego. They're just as happy with this tiny collection as they were with their boxes of toys in Australia and their imagination is getting a pretty good workout (Yasin has decided against shooting Imran because he's just a baby elephant and decided to protect him from poachers instead- wtf?!)