In order to reduce violence on juveniles with guns we must ban toy guns. There are many reasons why parents should not buy toy guns: it creates accidents, violence, and it induces to crimes. That is why, I think toy guns should be eliminated.
Buying a toy gun for a child seems normal for everybody, but it contributes to increase accidents and creates aggression on children. When we give a toy gun to a child we are persuading violence. A child with a toy gun receives a negative message that we endorse the role of practicing being an adult by using a gun.
As a young girl, I had a terrible experience with a toy gun. My younger brother loved to play with toy guns; one day my father brought a gun to the house for protection and he kept it at home. My brother did know that the gun was real, but both of them looked so much alike that once it confused him. One day he lost his toy gun, he went looking for it in my parents' room and he thought he found it, in realty what he had found was my father's gun and took it to his best friend's house. When they were playing cops and robbers, my brother took out his gun to play with it. When he pressed the trigger it made a blank shot. My brother's best friend's mom came running to see what had happened and when she saw the gun, she realized that it was a real gun. For a moment, she thought she had lost her child. We were lucky that it was a blank shot and it didn’t hurt any one. From that day, I promised myself never, ever buy a toy gun for my children.
Another incident that happened, on March 20, 2000 according to Marsh Devon, "Disarming children starts with toy guns" Christian Science Monitor. A six-year-old boy killed a five-year-old child with his father's gun. The mother of the six-year-old child took him to the park to play, but she was not aware that her child took his father's gun to play.
Another problem that toy guns had created is violence on schools. Aggressive children are taking toy guns or even real guns to schools to intimidate peers or even to kill them. Our children are terrified to go to school.
Besides all these accidents, there are other reasons why we should not buy a toy gun for a child. Pellet guns and BB guns are dangerous toy guns, which require supervision. If supervision is not provide, a child could get hurt very badly; also if the volume of the firing on the toy gun is too loud it may damage a child's hearing. Toy guns can also create confusion to police officers too.
To avoid all these incidents with toy guns, I urge parents not to buy toy guns for your children. Let us act now, Congressman Ed Towns from Brooklyn “declare a new urgency to pass a proposal to ban on realistic looking toy guns”. Let support him so they can remove all toy guns from the markets. Write to politicians urging them to implement a more effective toy gun control to stop all this incidents.
Professor this is my position paper -mm-gun control.