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Toy Guns Cause Real Death

1/20/2014

13 Comments

 
You watch as two children tumble to the ground, clutching their stomachs and rolling
around in the grass, as a third stands, hand outstretched, thumb and index finger in the
shape of a sideways L, and shouts "Pow, pow, pow." The two on the ground keep their
eyes shut, stifling giggles, until they can no longer hold their silence and burst out in
laughing fits.

Sure, it all seems like child play now, as they laugh and tumble and take turns being the
"good guy" who must "kill" the "bad guys." However, what children don't always
understand, are the consequences that their careless little games can have.
Those pretend guns that they create with their fingers might one day be replaced with toy
guns. What's the harm in a toy gun? Toy guns can cause deaths that are very real.
Countless children are killed each year, when a toy gun is accidentally mistaken to be a
real one.

Playing their gun games, children don't realize how real their actions can become.
Handling a toy gun might one day lead them to handle a real one. And then, it is not just a
game when one can fall to the ground, pretend to be shot, and then get back up and
laugh it off. It becomes a matter of life and death.

Every single day in the United States, eight children and teenagers under the age of
nineteen die as a result of gun violence, and fifty are shot. This includes those who were
murdered with guns, those who committed suicide using a gun, those who were
accidentally killed by one, those who are hurt with guns because of police intervention,
and those hurt during assaults with a gun.

Every year in the United States, over 100,000 people die in cases with the involvement of
a gun.

While the number of people dying because of gun violence seems to increase every year
in the United States, other countries do not seem to be having the same problems. This is
because, in America, children are exposed to toy guns from such a young age, that they
become desensitized to the general idea of guns and gun violence. Children who grow up
around weapons categorized as "toys," often do not find anything wrong with the violence
that comes along with it.

Putting an end to children's exposure to guns and toy weapons will stop the
desensitization of children and put an end to gun violence in America. Only WE can make
a difference. Let's make change happen.

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5/10/2016 11:05:29 pm

It is a must read post by all parents. By the age of 2 or 3, clear gender preferences emerge when it comes to playtime. In general, boys lean toward aggressive play, such as fighting monsters, while girls are more inclined to engage with dolls or games that involve family. The root of these differences has been debated for ages.

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3/13/2019 12:07:44 am

I have leaned that toy guns can teach little kids vilence and kids would think that it’s not bad while growing up when they get to 6,7,8,9 years old they might pick up a real gun and think it’s a toy gun and accidentally shoot themselves which could kill them I have also learned that kids will think that it’s okay to shoot people when picking up a real gun just like they shoot someone with a toy gun thinking that they won’t die in my opinion don’t give kids toy guns.

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4/9/2019 11:01:03 pm

The post you created is very nice. Toy guns are toys which imitate real guns, but are designed for children to play with. From hand-carved wooden replicas to factory-produced pop guns and cap guns, toy guns come in all sizes, prices and materials such as wood, metal, plastic or any combination thereof. Many newer toy guns are brightly colored and oddly shaped to prevent them from being mistaken for real firearms.

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