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Toy gun, viewed innocently or not !

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Serendipity22 Tue 04-Jan-22 11:45:36

Ok, so picture the scene. I am wandering around the supermarket isles with my 5 year old GS. I am concentrating on the mental list of items i need to purchase, GS is pointing his toy cowboy gun at anything and everybody.

Some people have laughed, some have spoken to him in fun and 1 elderly chap held both hands up hahaha and yet there i was amongst my mental list consisting of milk, bleach etc, thinking is this wrong? should he be blatantly waving a gun about ?

I ended up feeling so uncomfortable just as i remembered i needed a block of cheese which was 3 isles back, that i told him to give me the gun, which he did and i thrust it in my bag.

At 1 time it was perfectly normal to see a little boy with his 'pistol' ...
maybe it just me who thinks this way. I dunno. What does everyone else think ?

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RosiesMaw Thu 21-Mar-24 22:27:12

"Waving"

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NotSpaghetti Thu 21-Mar-24 22:33:11

Whilst I loved my absolutely fabulous cowgirl outfit (created by my mum) and definitely played with a cap gun as a child I did feel that by the time I had my own children not only was the idea of using guns in play no longer acceptable to me but the idea that "Indians" were "baddies" was also suspect.
As it happens, I also loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and read them with my children - but felt they definitely needed to be read with them and the ideas discussed in context.

Maybe I'm a boring kill-joy but like someone upthread, I simply explained that I don't like guns and, regarding the novels, that times have changed.

Just because it "didn't do me any harm" doesn't mean it's a good thing.

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