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Toy gun, viewed innocently or not !

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Grandma70s Tue 04-Jan-22 11:50:20

I never allowed my children to have toy guns, let alone point them at people. After all, shooting people is not good behaviour to emulate or play at.

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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