When he was three, my oldest son had never seen a real or toy gun, watched television or been to the movies. We were walking through Washington Park in Denver when he picked up a stick and started holding it like a rifle. I realized at that point that guns are instinctive for boys.
One Chicago mother, Anupy Singla, had been wrestling for months with whether to keep the Nerf revolver-style blasters that her daughters, ages 7 and 10, enjoyed playing with, several times tossing them into the trash and then retrieving them.
Her indecision ended abruptly on Dec. 14, as she watched the coverage of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people and himself after fatally shooting his mother at home.
“It was just something that inside me really snapped,” said Singla, 44, a cookbook author and food writer, and she threw the playthings away.
After Newtown, some parents impose (toy) gun control – TODAY.com
An intelligent parent would teach their children how to defend themselves in a dangerous world. A foolish parent will teach their child to be a victim. Since the dawn of time, children have had to survive human and other predators. Parents need to pull their heads out of their Bambi induced fog and deal with reality.
Darwin called it “Survival of the Fittest”
Two Chicago girls have just learned the importance of keeping guns out of sight of the “Law”
Yes, as kids we all had toy guns or cap pistols. Cops vs. Robbers or Cowboys vs. Indians made for hours of fun play.
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The sane prepare by defending themselves from both the evil [ morally bankrupt ] and insane.