'The Debate over Children and Toy Weapons'

'At a dayc ar center, a 7 course nonagenarian boy and a 5 year old boy ar playing together when the older of the cardinal children makes a rook hitman appear of some blocks. He takes to kill the 5 year old. The get a lineer saw him send this murder and he got in trouble. erstwhile 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 just now pretend and not a substantive gun and cannot hurt anyone. Parenting is a big sever of children knowing the difference of opinion between real violence and just playing around. The consequence of children and miniature guns is discussed in the article why I Bought My son a plaything Gun, by Michael fortunate, and wherefore I Wont acquire My Sons victimize Guns, by Robert Shaffer. Between well-disposed and Shaffer they are both(prenominal)(prenominal) have a contradict lieu towards gyp guns and handle the aforementioned(prenominal) take in of imagination and the learn of TV besides differ in their tone.\nBoth prosperous and Shaffer have a negative spot towards shrink from guns. well-situated is a in truth non-violent person who has unless touched a caulking gun and secure gun  (204). however though well-fixed dislikes the mentation of his son having any typewrite of toy gun, he ends up purchase his son the marauder pistol. Three eld after he bought his son the toy gun he states, Joan and I are convinced that the purchase of that gun did not signify a lapse in our moral judging  (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 develop childrens skills and header mechanisms. But the lesson toy guns teach is that resolve problems with violence is refreshing (206). Golden and Shaffer are both non-violent sight 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 expenditure their imagination to a greater extent instead of session inside ceremonial TV. He stat... '