Toy Guns

When I was a boy I used to play with a range of toy guns. Some had caps, which made a "satisfactory" crack "as they exploded, while others are only a few twigs tied together with a bit of string. I had long guns, pistols and short guns gunslinger style. I used to shoot the tree, my sister and various imaginary evil villains. Despite what the media would have us believe, he seems to have turned to all the rights, and during the whole course of my adult life, I've never owned a gun, never someone killed, and I can not honestly say I've never felt any particular desire to be violent towards anyone. Except the occasional politician, but I think they do not count.

We talked a lot over the years about boys and guns, and if it is right or wrong. See a couple of little boys playing together, which rattling noises and Keeling further arguing about that shot that is initially tend to raise a few eyebrows, and almost everyone has a view of determining it should be allowed or not.

With gun crime on the rise, and new more and more about youth who are victims of gun crime, it is easy to draw a direct line between the desire to play with guns will use real weapons against other human beings. However, sometimes the obvious comparisons or conclusions are not necessarily good, and jumping to conclusions this way is likely to cause more harm than good.

There has never been a formal study to prove whether a fascination with toy guns as a child leads directly to a trend of violent crime in adulthood, or if the subject of a denial access to toy guns as a child is likely to result in a God-fearing, morally honest person who would never dream of hurting someone.

Certainly there are enough people who show they played with guns as a child but never harmed anyone as an adult to believe that the general rule is dangerous. You might as well say that to have blue curtains as a boy will result in a propensity to violence as an adult, or have a toy train set a boy like you to encourage membership in gangs later in life.

One thing that is certain is that young boys like to play with toy guns - they always what it seems, and the games they usually play with other children, with defined rules and agreements , teams and fair play, with lots of imagination and a large portion of physical activity. Interestingly, it is these very aspects of the game that are encouraged by those who say that children are not enough these days, and that television is supported.

It often seems that the much greater danger that children play with guns stick together these same children becoming larger and more idle spoon fed all the products of the imagination of a generation ago, used to run around to play together to conquer new worlds, armed only with rifles and sticks a group of friends.