DISQUS

that's so awesome. my daughter is chatty too (like my mom and i) but generally chooses not to talk with other kids. she instead just chases them, or hugs them, and talks to them through adults -- as if we were all toddler interpreters.

I actually feel lucky that I get to avoid this issue, as I have a daughter who doesn\'t seem all that interested in guns...

But let me offer this:

I was -- like lots of boys -- draw to (and allowed to) play with guns. However, I don\'t think it\'s that guns are inherently interesting or attractive, but that they\'re glamorized and glorified in cartoons, movies and other media targeted to boys.

Hence, we think they\'re cool.

That might be over-simplified, but I don\'t understand why encouraging violent behavior -- however seemingly innocuous -- is brushed over as \"good clean fun\", just because the dead people (or things, or whatever), are only theoretical.