Toy Guns Should Be Banned Essay

Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! or Not? The sounds of multiple cap guns echo from the back yard, coupled with loud children’s voices screaming back and forth towards one another. Suddenly there is silence; you can only hear one child’s voice as he yells at the top of his lungs, “Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! For a lot of parents, this is a typical afternoon play session for the neighborhood kids, as they’re acting out scenes from the famous western T.V. series, “The Lone Ranger”. But for other parents, allowing their children to participate in activities involving play guns, or other types of toy weapons, would be out of the question. There is a debate in America on banning the sale of toy guns, and other types of toy weapons. While some parents would support the ban on the sale of toy guns or toy weapons, other parents would …show more content…
They played games such as cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers. For the most part, society did not see anything wrong with this. Children would take turns, role playing as either the good guys or as the bad guys, playing the games until the bad guys were locked up in an imaginary jail, or until they simulated themselves gasping for air, taking one last breath, just after the good guy had shot them down. However, in recent years, due to an increase in school shootings, this type of play in considered unacceptable for children by an increasing number of parents, as they are quick to claim that the shootings are linked to childhood play behavior. Michael Thompson, PhD, child psychologist, author of, “It’s a Boy! Your Son’s Development From Birth to Age 18”, proclaims, “[t]here’s no scientific evidence suggesting that playing war games in childhood leads to real-life aggression”(qtd. in Zamosky). As experts in childhood development speak out, parents are left to decide whether or not toy guns are right for their own