I’ll admit I’m one of those over-the-top people when it comes to guns. I think they suck and should all be outlawed and that people should pick fights with daisies instead. Before my son was born I was all about banning toy guns – and even removing the word “gun” – from the household. Reality sunk in about a year ago, when Truman held up his half-eaten grilled cheese sandwich and said, “Look Mommy, I made a gun!”
I tried to downplay the whole playing-with-guns thing as much as possible, using words like “water shooter” for “water gun,” but even Rick …read more

Recently I read a discussion online about whether or not, as a parent, you should be allowing kids to be running around with toy guns and toy swords. How about the swords with red paint on them, depicted to look like blood dripping off them.
I guess the debate has always been around but I think since the Virginia Tech shootings it has risen back to the surface.
I know when I was a kids I played with toy revolvers, fake knives, and plastic swords, and I know most of my friends did. Well actually I think all of them …read more