Toys R Us query on "guns"

[Earth_First]

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Maybe this comes partly as oversimplifying a tremendously complicated issue, however this is a small part of the larger gun culture issue that needs to be addressed.

Part of the gun culture attitude is partly due to the fact that our children have become enamored with firearms at a very young age as a form of 'entertainment' and not as potentially lethal weapons.

To stop desensitizing children with gun play would go a long in creating meaningful firearm change in the United States.

[bossy22]

1. For generation kids played with toy guns

and some how the world survived

I don't think the problem is kids playing with toy guns.

[larkrake]

5. I do. We have more killing by teens than any country

The US is seen as the bullies, the killers and the most violent because we are

[nc4bo]

2. So many times the parents themselves introduce their kids to guns and gun culture

especially these days.........several stories about kids getting accidentally injured or killed by a parent at gun shows, firing ranges. The parent(s) take kids to practice ranges like it's a family picnic event.

I'd say it'd be pretty natural that a kid would want one of their very own, to hold and cuddle - right?

[Robb]

3. You'll shoot your eye out.

[kestrel91316]

4. There are a few aspects of gun culture I LOVE, lol. That movie is #1. My fond

memories of deer hunting with my dad and uncles in NV is another.

This complete gun nuttery? Not so much.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. A comparison to France:

For some odd reason it surprised me to find out that France also has big garish advertising inserts in the Sunday edition of their local papers. A few years ago I was looking for one of those odd ‘royale with cheese’ feelings that you get when you experience something extremely familiar, yet with little parallel universe-type differences, so I picked up a local paper in northeast France and flipped throught he ads. It took me a while to notice that there was not one single damned ad for violent toys. You could get FIFA ’08 for 25% off, EMT playsets, firefighting helicopters, boats, planes, trains, some movie tie-in tchotchkes and Disney-ish stuff of all varieties. But lord help you if you want an army guy or something that looks like a gun. As far as I could tell it just wasn’t there. Maybe the government bans it, but French friends convinced me that there just is not much pent-up demand for toys that simulate combat, mayhem and murder. Once I saw it the difference was really jarring. Over here you really cannot turn a page of your average advertising supplement without ten different kinds of murder-themed toy marketed to every age of American kid. They no doubt have that stuff, but most view this obsession with violence, especially among children, as distasteful and a little embarrassing.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/12/16/a-thought-5/