to think you don't let your kid shoot people in the supermarket?

[DonkeyHohtay]

Busy Saturday morning in the supermarket. Boy of about 8 with his Dad. Dad busy filling his basket and behaving perfectly normally.

Boy has a large, black plastic gun. Rifle type rather than a pistol (I'm not a gun expert). Boy is holding gun up to his shoulder, looking down the length of it, pointing it at people and saying "bang bang you're dead". When boy pointed it at me I said - perfectly politely - "Please don't point that at me, I don't like guns".

Father looked at me as if I had grown two heads.

AIBU to think that the supermarket on a busy morning isn't the place for toy guns??

Full disclosure - I'm not a gun fan. Although who is. My kids have in the past had those large "Nerf" type guns which are bright orange and could never be mistaken for a real one. The rules were always that shooting the little foam things at people was not allowed. The had hours of fun in the garden trying to hit a tree or something. This wasn't a gun like that. It was a toy gun, but a black one made to look like the real thing.

AIBU to be a wee bit shocked and think this was completely inappropriate?

I would have fallen onto the floor groaning and crying "arggh, you got me!"

@DonkeyHohtay
You are already anti kids having toy guns, so any interaction between you and this child and his dad is going to be fraught with your own prejudice.

Btw your kids are bored to fuck with shooting the nerf at a tree and long to blast each other...

Donkey,hardly a neutral summation there was it
those who think I'm an attention seeking, easily-offended snowflake, and the rest who think I have a fair point

Killjoy misery guts.

I agree, I don't understand why toy guns are still on sale to be honest.

Commonsense as a pirate,err how does that work.Pirate etiquette?
Kumon maths to calculate the spoils of robbery

I would have fallen onto the floor groaning and crying "arggh, you got me!"

Of course you would. Because that's what everyone would do in the middle of a supermarket on a Saturday morning. Just the time for a spot of attention seeking, performance parenting and amateur dramatics.

TBH, I'm not that fussed if the kids do play war games pointing at each other with their Nerf guns. They haven't any "bullets" anyway as they've all got lost, squashed or ended up in the hoover. If they were playing it that way it would be in the house or the garden. Definitely not somewhere like the supermarket.

Toy guns are on sale,because
they’re toys
There is demand
Kids like them

It still baffles me that people buy pretend guns for their children at all

You've not seen kids pick up a pen, a stick or just use two fingers as a gun then.

Playing with guns does not turn kids into murderous maniacs.

Mental health issues, unemployment, hating women, hating the world, just being nasty arseholes does.

But to go back to the OP it is not appropriate in a supermarket/shop. Mind you, neither is playing on scooters or taking your dogs in. The behaviour you see in shops these days is mind boggling.

Yeh right to falling on the floor

People do make stuff up

'Sorry this happened to you'

Good grief literally nothing happened to op

Of course you would. Because that's what everyone would do in the middle of a supermarket on a Saturday morning. hmm Just the time for a spot of attention seeking, performance parenting and amateur dramatics

Does it count as performance parenting if it's not your child?

Yeh right to falling on the floor

People do make stuff up

Yes, I was of course being 100% serious.

Jesus wept

Or it maybe light hearted and fun to play along,you know in joyful way

I would be more concerned at whole families walking around asda in their pyjamas and slippers

I don’t think you sound like a snowflake or a child hater OP. Those who are implying that aren’t responding to any posts where people say some toy guns can be ok, in appropriate settings. Thus creating a polarised opposition where any criticism of a child interacting with a stranger in a supermarket and backed up by nonchalant “my child can do no wrong” parents, means you hate children and play. 🙄
I imagine such play would not have bothered the OP so much if she had witnessed it at the park as an interaction between two children who knew each other, not being approached by a strange child and told she was dead whilst doing her shop.

Fuck sake people are annoying

I hope I'm not a child-hater. I have three of them at home.

I would have been protected by my pretend bullet proof vest and chopped his head off with my imaginary sword.Although I'm betting dad and child would be upset because I joined in the game.

Reading AIBU recently it seems people have forgotten what childhood is, they are supposed to display perfect behaviour all the time while the parents take offence to every single insignificant thing. It's quite depressing really.
Not perfect behaviour.
Just not pretending to shoot people in a supermarket.

Some parents don't seem to understand that the world isn't their child's playground and so think anywhere from cafes to supermarkets is the perfect opportunity to let their darlings do what they like.

I also hate scooters and heelies in shops and cafes too. It's not the time or the place and people shopping shouldn't have to dodge children whose parents haven't bothered to apply an ounce of common sense.

It’s really not hard or being perfect to not do this

On here recently it's full of people being offended by every little thing. Most happen daily, everywhere, most people either dintvtakevany notice or do notice but it's so 8nsignificant in their lives they forget it instantly. This is one of those, a child was playing big whoop kids do this all the time. If u notice walk away and get on with the shop. Why does everything have to become SOOOOOOOO offensive and warrant a post hoping for 🌹🌸🌹🌻🌼I'm so sorry this happened hun hugs hugs. 😉 It's a kid playing the end.

Not doing any harm imo