Principal Skinr
Master
My kids know the difference. The ones old enough to shoot treat the toys VERY differently than the real thing. The important thing is that they are taught how to properly and safely handle the real thing.
I played with toy guns and pretended to blow the heads off of just about anyone around. Big deal. I never had that thought cross my mind as a kid when handling the real thing, and as an adult, it would be the last thing I'd ever want to do. People who confuse toys or fiction with reality have other issues that are deeper than I can understand. I remember when they thought Elmer Fudd blowing the bill off of Daffy Duck would somehow screw kids up, so they edited the Looney Toons to take out explosions and guns. All they accomplished was ruining great cartoons.
I played with toy guns and pretended to blow the heads off of just about anyone around. Big deal. I never had that thought cross my mind as a kid when handling the real thing, and as an adult, it would be the last thing I'd ever want to do. People who confuse toys or fiction with reality have other issues that are deeper than I can understand. I remember when they thought Elmer Fudd blowing the bill off of Daffy Duck would somehow screw kids up, so they edited the Looney Toons to take out explosions and guns. All they accomplished was ruining great cartoons.