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by dotancohen 1704 days ago

  > The problem would be if you hand a kid a gun, saying it's
  > a toy gun and they aim and fire it towards their friends.
Why do toy guns exist at all? What do children learn other than to point weapons at each other and carelessly pull a trigger without consequence? I would understand a toy hunting rifle, but all that I've ever seen are toy assault rifles and pistols. My three children have never had a toy gun.

For context, I've served in infantry and have multiple firearms in the house.

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Because kids like to play with stuff? Most people in the world (outside the US) will never hold a gun in their hand in the lifetime, so learning vs not learning to pointing weapons doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of it all.

Also, not sure what children playing with guns have to do with this accident on the Rust set.