• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    4 months ago

    Imagine your kids get accustomed to playing with these, then someday they find mom’s real 9mm that looks just like the toy.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      Easy to imagine. In their rush to make instruments of death less scary looking, they’ve made them less scary looking which seems like a bad thing, to me.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      4 months ago

      Got my wife a pink Bersa Thunder for Christmas.

      Know why? She doesn’t feel as apprehensive about shooting it, won’t touch my Colt .45 because heavy and black and scary. They kick about the same since the Colt is much heavier.

      As I said in another comment, my kids got a lesson on guns that look like toys. Hell, 2 of mine are Tiffany blue. (It matches my kitchen, OK?)

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      172·
      4 months ago

      This insane. I had to check if those were real.

      They are.

      What the fuck.

      That’s definitely the how’s it going…in fact…

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        We had toy guns in the 70s that absolutely looked real. Hell, I had a BB/dart gun that would pass for a 1911, even up close. Heavy metal too. I have several real guns that weigh less, and worse, some look like toys. The kids got a demonstration of that reality.

        “If it’s gun shaped, it’s a gun. Treat it as such.”

          • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            4 months ago

            Thanks. Teaching them gun safety was far easier than I thought. Now they’re hyper-aware of where the muzzle is pointed, though my daughter sometimes slips her finger onto the trigger walking to the target.

            In any case, they will not touch a gun unless:

            • We’re at our camp, everyone is visible and aware someone’s shooting.
            • I’m sitting beside or standing behind them.
            • They check that everyone has ear protection. (They caught me twice!)

            I also taught them what proper handling looks like; Unloading, showing an empty chamber to the person you’re handing it too, etc. Never know when some asshole friend will break out dad’s super cool pistol and pass it around.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      1·
      4 months ago

      It’s ok those kids are all AI generated… So this guy can sell 3D printed fake guns to actual kids.

      God I fucking hate it here.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
    111·
    4 months ago

    It’s not legal to kill kids, but you can buy 'em a toy gun and then call the cops about suspicious activity in the area…

    Can’t wait to see the first incident of a school cop killing a 2nd-grader who was bringing his toy to show-and-tell.

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      In the 90’s (before Columbine) making finger guns was an automatic suspension at my elementary school. I can only imagine how things are now.

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 months ago

    Aaaahhhhmurica.

    There’s something deep in that culture that I can’t find the words for.

    That picture though, pretty much sums it up.