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I have a 3 year old daughter and she sometimes come home from daycare saying "Pow-Pow" because I think some of the kids at school play "pow-pow", although they don't have toy guns at school. It really alarms me, when she does that because I really don't think kids at that age have good understanding of the difference between toy guns and real guns. They don't understand that a gun can kill.
I always reprimand her for playing that game. I tell her that I don't want her playing "pow-pow" because guns are dangerous and they really can hurt a person. I continue to explain this to her because I want her to understand this, so if for some reason she is exposed to a real gun, she will not touch it. She will know it is dangerous (no, we don't have a gun in the house), but you never know if somehow she could get exposed to a gun at sometime away from home.
Any child in my family that I see simulating gun play, I reprimand them (not in a mean way) and let them know that guns are toys. I tell them not to play that game and to play something else.
I really think that toy guns are not a good toy, and I would never buy them.
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