Why You Should Allow Your Kids To Play With Guns!

Posted by Scott Williams
11 Comments
July 21, 2009
Kid Lessons | Video

Should kids play with guns? Why or Why Not? Share your thoughts…

If you have some complaints about my stance… feel free to visit my website idon’tcare.com :-)

  • http://www.backporchervations.blogspot.com KentuckyGal

    Not a big fan of guns in the first place, let alone children and guns. But I realize this is Nerf, after all, and it looks like the boys got some good exercise out of it.

  • http://Yahoo?Don'tcompletelyunderstandthis. Debra Vlasak

    I’m kind of non-committal on this. Do you keep real weapons or handguns in your home? Not every child has a parent who is a worship leader. Once in a while you hear of some tragic accident where a young child mishandles a weapon a parent has in their home for protection or hunting. I think most kids can make a distinction between for real and make-believe playing. Proverbs 22:6 says Train up a child in the way he should go; and whenhe is old, he will not depart from it. My question is just how many parents raise up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?

  • http://www.twitter.com/marcmillan Marc Millan

    Bang, Bang!! Love the video of the troops. Very cool. I ain’t got a problem with it, I teach my kids what reality is and isn’t, it’s MY responsibility as their father and leader to raise them up properly. What you were doing was perfectly cool and fun bro, Maaaaaaan we threw matchbox cars at each other for fun in the Bronx! :-)

    Hey and here’s another website for ya
    Getoverit.com :-)

  • MichaelB

    By age 6 my kids are learning firearm safety as well as firing real firearms (like .22′s) with our supervision. They can easily differentiate between toy and real firearms. My oldest child under 12 is going to take his hunter safety course and test soon.

  • Jon O

    I just know that you crack me up. I can tell your main emphasis is not about gun/no gun, but about being a real dad. That’s the more important issue here anyway.

  • http://paravane.wordpress.com jimmy paravane

    AHHH! I WANT ONE OF THOSE BACKPACKS! Jealous much I am. (grin)
    uhmm..those aren’t guns. We played with guns when I was a kid growing up in the woods of southeast texas. BB guns, pellet guns, .22′s. The only rule I remember is “not in the house and DON’T shoot your sisters!” Yes, many a harmless snake met a fearsome doom…

  • http://www.thegirlinthemiddle.com/blog Molly

    When my son was first born, I said “Oh, I won’t allow him to play with toy guns, there is to much violence in our society blah blah blah’s.”

    I almost think that he was making guns out anything L shaped before he could talk. I figure he is safer with a Nerf gun or a water pistol than a pointy tree limb…so…

    Have at it.

    He is now 14 and has a healthy respect for real fire arms, but that doesn’t count (according to him) the airsoft pellets that he and his friends (still) play “war” with in the woods.

  • http://cookingwithingredients.wordpress.com Patrick Sievert

    As long as you don’t let kids “play” with real guns, teach them the difference between real guns and play guns, and keep any real guns locked up (and locked separate from ammunition) so they can’t “play” with them, there’s no problem.

    In fact, I think if kids were taught how to handle real guns responsibly, then we wouldn’t have to worry about them growing up to use them irresponsibly.

  • http://jeffbrame.blogspot.com jbrame

    I always took the stance from day one with my kids, toy guns are cool as long as they look like toys, mainly not because I want my kids to know the difference but the people outside to know the difference. I’m in the same boat as most, I played with BB guns, pellet guns, etc when I was a kid and I dont plan on going on any shooting rampages. I think if the parent is involved in the child activities your not going to have issues. Too me it seems most people who are against guns because they dont trust the other people to raise their kids right.
    That doesnt make a lot of sense to me, because if your a parent who needs to protect they’re family and they have never had a gun in the house, thats not going to protect them from the person who has experience with guns who is breaking in your home. I believe wholeheartedly in the protection of life and love of our neighbors but some parents today seem to want to raise our children to be pacifist to the point of ignorance. That doesnt raise strong men, it raises men to remain boys.

  • http://justlivingthelife.com Jay Caruso

    Yes, kids should be allowed to play with guns! Some of my best memories as kid was playing cops and robbers or pretending to be part of a special forces team looking to take out the bad guys. Boys want that sense of adventure

    We’ve become a society that has moved from having a healthy respect for guns to one that is supposed to have a fear of guns and it’s a shame really.

    If you own guns, don’t make them this scary thing they should never go near and don’t learn about. Show them. Teach them. Again, let them learn to fear them in terms of respect not fright. When they’re old enough, let them shoot.

    Let kids be kids.

  • barb hendrickson

    Yeah, when our two boys were babies, I had decided that guns shouldn’t be a part of their play. Then, one day when Jordan was about 2 years old, at lunch he had bitten the corner off of his saltine cracker. Now, do you know what you get when you bite a corner off that cracker? Yeah, a GUN! He made a gun out of a freakin’ cracker and started shooting the air with it! We didn’t watch TV much, so I’m wonderin’ where he even learned to shoot a gun! After that enlightening experience, my boys played with guns, GI Joes, and lots and lots of action figures. (all of which had a gun with it) :)
    barb

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