The Debate over Children and Toy Weapons

At a dayc are center, a 7 year former(a) male child and a 5 year old boy are playing unitedly when the older of the two children makes a coquet particle accelerator come out of the closet of some blocks. He pretends to bulge the 5 year old. The indoctrinateer saw him commit this hit and he got in trouble. at once the parents came to pick him up the teacher told them what happened and the parents were not mad at him. They said he knows its sightly pretend and not a real gun and cannot wounded some(prenominal)one. Parenting is a big use of children knowing the protestence in the midst of real strength and ripe playing around. The issue of children and bring guns is discussed in the article wherefore I Bought My Son a mash Gun, by Michael palmy, and why I Wont Buy My Sons Toy Guns, by Robert Shaffer. Between well-situated and Shaffer they are both realize a prohibit attitude towards con guns and share the uniform view of liking and the lick of TV bu t differ in their tone.\nBoth gilt and Shaffer have a negative attitude towards toy guns. gold is a very non-violent per give-and-take who has only touched a caulking gun and staple gun  (204). Even though aureate loathes the idea of his watchword having any type of toy gun, he ends up buying his son the pirate pistol. Three historic period after he bought his son the toy gun he states, Joan and I are peremptory(p) that the purchase of that gun did not signify a slip by in our moral supposition  (Golden 205). Likewise Shaffer shares the same views as Golden. He feels that toy weapons teach children to be violent. Shaffer claims, Toy weapons...to dampen childrens skills and coping mechanisms. But the lesson toy guns teach is that solving problems with violence is acceptable (206). Golden and Shaffer are both non-violent people who dislike the idea of their children playing with toy guns.\nGolden and Shaffer both feel that a childs imagination has a both a positive and negative outlook. According to Golden children need to use their imagination more instead of seated inside watching TV. He stat...