Calls to ban Toy weapons

[G1Optimal]

I was told about this was on the news today.
It was about some childcare orginization calling for a ban on toy weapons (mostly guns),super hero costumes and lego (becuase you can make weapons from it) becuase it promote violent behaviour.

So i was wondering if this succeeds will they ban action figures ( becuase of swords and guns if not playing good and bad ) like Transformers next?

[DELTAprime]

This will never happen. There were people calling for the banning of "violent" kids content back in the 90s after MMPR became big and it went nowhere.

[BigTransformerTrev]

This will never happen. There were people calling for the banning of "violent" kids content back in the 90s after MMPR became big and it went nowhere.

Yep - toy weapons are a billion dollar industry - no way will it end.

And as stated, every few years some nutter group ineffectually calls for their ban

[Paulbot]

Does seem like the kind of "news" shows like Sunrise/Today get some outrage clicks from... like that one the other week about libraries.

[Trent]

The article I read discussed banning toy weapons in pre schools/daycare centres. And tbh I can’t fault the thinking. My son is nearly 4 and while I absolutely cannot wait for him to be old enough to be given a NERF gun, he is not allowed to play with any toys with guns now and when he plays with my TFs, I remove the weapons first.

[BigTransformerTrev]

The article I read discussed banning toy weapons in pre schools/daycare centres. And tbh I can’t fault the thinking. My son is nearly 4 and while I absolutely cannot wait for him to be old enough to be given a NERF gun, he is not allowed to play with any toys with guns now and when he plays with my TFs, I remove the weapons first.

Wow - I had used a REAL rifle by the time I was 4.

But then look how I turned out, so you are probably doing the right thing

[i_amtrunks]

This will never happen. There were people calling for the banning of "violent" kids content back in the 90s after MMPR became big and it went nowhere.

You’re right, just that time in the politically correct / nanny state time circle. A few years before Power Rangers it was the Ninja Turtles and a few years before that it was Monkey...

I can understand some child care centres banning weapons when they have incidents that are fuelled or escalated because little kids are hurting each other playing their games, but as others have said, take the toys away and they’ll use sticks, books, pencils or just their hands.