Ridiculous maybe, but I see it on par with not letting your kids play with toy guns, or letting them play with toy guns as long as they don’t LOOK too real. Nonsense. The first time I heard of a kid getting shot while carrying a toy gun he had a first generation lazertag gun which other than being black did not look at all real. If you are going to ban those for safety reasons then you would be wise to ban bicycles which kill several orders of magnitude more kids every year.
The point is that children should not be taught to play with guns at all. Guns are not toys. Young children can conflate playing with toy guns and real guns, and they can then hurt or kill themselves or others.
We are not libs here and do not advocate banning anything, forcing the issue, or passing draconian laws. Please don’t leap to that conclusion. We’re just recommending what wise steps we think parents should be taking, and I completely agree with Old Student.
Carrying arguments to extremes (such as stating that since we don’t recommend children play with guns, we should ban bicycles, walking across streets, and riding in cars) is a leftist ploy. JSYK.