Opposed on all counts. My kids were not allowed to play with toy guns of any type (even water guns that resembled real guns), and they did not grow up to be ax murderers of suffer from problems of self-esteem. We taught them that weapons are NOT toys, and people can really get hurt from certain types of so-called toy weapons (like BB guns, swords, playing with sticks). A kid will only make a weapon out of two thin items held perpendicular, if he SEES such a weapon either by other children or watching violence in the media. Otherwise, he would have no way of knowing about “guns.” I screende my kids’ friends carefully, and they played in homes where other parents had a similar hashkafa to ours vis a vis toy weapons. It was never an issue.
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