[WAGCEVP]

Thursday, August 21, 2003
By Amy C. Sims


NEW YORK — The sight of a child holding a toy gun can strike fear in a parent's heart, but many moms and dads are re-examining their attitude toward children's war-related play.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95298,00.html

[Standing Wolf]

The sight of a child holding a toy gun can strike fear in a parent's heart...

If I'd had children, they'd have grown up with real guns, not toys.

[4v50 Gary]

:rolleyes: I gave my friend's daughter, a 4 year old, a kiddie size tomahawk for Xmas. Her pop & mom approved and thought it was kool. So long as she doesn't take it to school (she's 6 now) for show & tell, everything is just fine.

Met one gunsmith (Mike Lea of Ohio) who made a child size trade gun for his daughter (I think she was 12 at the time). Imagine a pee-wee smoothbore flintlock that fits a kid. Cute.:) I think it weighed about 4 lbs.

[JShirley]

I just recalled, that when I was a child, tomahawks with stone heads were sold to children without much thought. I think I was around eleven, when the dart guns started changing from plastic shafts with firm rubber tips, to all soft, bendable rubber.

I thought it was stupid even then, though it did make using the darts as carriers for needles harder for my older brother! :eek:

[Tommy.Gun]

Bought my seven year old a Henery Mini Bolt for her birthday....

[Hk Paul]

“They make guns out of everything and sticks will easily turn into swords," said the San Diego, Calif., resident. "I try to be low-key about it, but will definitely curb them away and come up with something besides a gun, saying, ‘Let’s make it your magic wand.”

Wee and go play in a field full of flowers and magical faries!

Id never tell my son to "make a magic wand" I dont want my son to grow up to be a bed wetting sissie.

[Oleg Volk]

"It's a magic wand!"

"Yes, mum...I can conjure up a nuke-bearing dragon with it and show those fairies and gnomes what's what!"

[0007]

" yes, mum, I can conjure..." Oleg - you need to figure out how to make that one a poster or a shirt.

:D :D :D :D :D

[geekWithA.45]

As my fairy godmother always used to say:

"If you can't get your magic wand to shoot lightning or spew fireballs, use it to whip up a garand, that'll do in a pinch."