Posted on 12/27/2015 7:34:16 AM PST by Altariel
I thought young Freeper parents could use a reference thread for "everything your child should know about toy gun safety/ gun safety.
For instance:
1) Don't point toy guns at children too young to play with them. 2) Play with toy guns with an adult present. 3 ) Toy guns are outside toys.
Your house rules may vary, but I think having a conservative resource for this information would be a welcome response to more statist notions.
What are your house rules? What do you teach (or have you taught) your children?
Well, my generation, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, played Cowboys and Indians, chasing each other around and shooting cap guns at each other. Once the war started in 1941, it was now longer Cowboys and Indians, it was the Army/Marines versus Japs or Nazis.
I don't think our playing ruined us. We were the generation that fought well in Korea and Vietnam.
I don't think it would hurt to raise another generation the same way.
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