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Shiny toy guns
When
my father was a child, he and his six brothers each had shiny
toy guns and a holster made especially for each one of them
by their father in his home workshop. The dangers of shiny toy guns
were only realized in the past few decades and many changes emerged
on the market for shiny toy guns.
Despite the precautions that everyone takes to make obvious the
difference between shiny toy guns and actual guns sometimes the
shiny toy guns kids have can still be mistaken for real guns—especially
older models. When you are a collector of shiny toy guns, you may
want to look for the older kinds without the orange eyesore.
Unfortunately, the amount of violence to which children are exposed
creates an innocent and yet dangerous desire for toy guns, especially
shiny toy guns that look like the real thing. It is too soon for
these kids to understand the devastation that an accident with a
real gun can cause. When my brother was little, my parents did not
allow him to have too many toy weapons. Therefore he poured his
energy into making his own guns, swords and more. He would spray-paint
his childishly designed shiny toy guns with silver and all of a
sudden, he had something like the shiny toy guns that the rest of
his friends had.
It is not that shiny toy guns are bad, but we must also emphasize
to our children what the difference is between shiny toy guns and
real guns. We must be sure they know the difference between pretending
and what is real and dangerous. When we can educate our children
accordingly, shiny toy guns are hours of fun!
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