[TalonDJ]

Young children can conflate playing with toy guns and real guns, and they can then hurt or kill themselves or others.

No. Not if you teach them gun safety. Unless you are letting them play with high grade replicas suitable for movies then there is no way they are going to confuse the two. The kids that get in trouble are invariably ones that were not taught gun safety. Toy guns ARE toys. Any kid that can not tell the diffence should be kept away from all sharp objects, forks, kitchen knives, electical outlets and most of everything else in a normal house. Millions of us grew up with guns in the house and playing with realistic toys.

[TheOldLady]

Part of gun safety teaching for anyone, not just children, is that you do not play with guns.

These days it is obviously dangerous to let your child out of the house with a toy gun, especially when the perps disguise their guns as toys as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

You raise your kids, and let others raise theirs. Okay? I don’t have to agree with you, and you don’t have to agree with me.

‘bye.