“Did you speak with your child about what almost happened?”
After the cop and his father. I took bigger chunks out of his butt than they did. He also lost all privileges of any kind for a month. He made the decision to confine his activities involving Air Soft guns to the back yard himself.
The point is, these toy guns are dangerous in more ways than one. And despite limits established by parents, things can happen.
That said, I’ve never forbidden my sons or my daughter for that matter from playing with toy guns. I did however make sure that they understood they were toys, suitable for make believe play, not something to run around waving as if they were the real thing.
And yes, for the doubters, the AirSoft guns do look real after dark. If they think they can tell the difference I’d be interested in hearing how.
theres a local airsoft place here in nm. Its customer base consists of alot of kids and some adults. I wouldn’t trust some of those kids with a .22 rifle.
I took some friendly fire to say the least. But it was good to play those airsoft games.
“I did however make sure that they understood they were toys, suitable for make believe play, not something to run around waving as if they were the real thing.”
How does one pretend to have a gun....and NOT run around waving it as though it was the real thing?
Isnt that what kids do?
I know we did...
Hell...we even used to yell “BANG”...
I dont recall one kid ever getting shot by a cop....
I don’t own an Airsoft gun, but I’ve seen plenty in videos and they do indeed look dead-real.
You absolutely cannot tell this is fake from more than 10ft away:
http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/NewsDetail?newsID=822
Check the video out too. It even operates like an M4A1.