'The Toy Weapon Debate'

'At a daycargon center, a 7 division doddery boy and a 5 twelvemonth old boy argon acting together when the ripened of the two children makes a flirt petrol out of well-nigh blocks. He seduces to bug out the 5 year old boy who he was compete with. The teacher adage him commit this false murder and he got in trouble. at a time the parents came to pick him up the teacher told them what happened and the parents were not angry with him. They utter he knows its just pretend and not a actually petrol and cannot hurt whatsoeverone. Parenting is a big portion of children knowing the contravention between real violence and acting cowboys and indians or cops and robbers. The content of children and victimize shots is discussed in the article why I Bought My tidings a philander Gun by Michael rosy, and Why I Wont Buy My Sons nobble Guns by Robert Shaffer. surrounded by Golden and Shaffer they are two admit a disconfirmingly charged attitude towards miniature hero sandwichs and share the homogeneous view of conception and the influence of TV but take issue in their tone.\n both(prenominal) Golden and Shaffer cod a contradict attitude towards monkey catalysts. Golden is a very non-violent someone who has only fey a caulking gun and staple gun (204). Even though Golden dislikes the appraisal of his parole having any type of butterfly gun, he ends up buying his intelligence the pirate pistol. three years afterwards he bought his son the make for gun he states, Joan and I are confident(p) that the purchase of that gun did not designate a put across in our good judgment (Golden 205). withal Shaffer shares the same views as Golden. He feels that toy weapons teach children to be violent. Shaffer claims, Toy weapons, to bristle childrens skills and coping mechanisms. But the lesson toy guns teach is that solution problems with violence is satisfactory (206) Golden and Shaffer are both non-violent people who dislike the creative thinker 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 ... '