To remove the toy guns

[AlmostAlwyn]

I've ordered a second hand playmobil set for DS (3.5). There's lots of people and horses and a prison/jail cell type thing. I imagine it's some kind of wild west themed set as there also quite a few rifles. I told DH that I was going to take the guns away and he thinks I'm being ridiculous, I can't pretend guns don't exist, etc.

DS is on a bit of a police/robbers track at the moment so AIBU to avoid the 'guns and what they do' chat for a bit longer?

Nice one OP.

I never stopped mine from playing with guns, but they mainly liked the "fantasy spaceman" types with flashing lights. We also have a massive box of Nerf guns now they're older, which is very popular. I have always gone down the road of making sure they know the difference between fantasy and reality, which I think is more important.

Yanbu to feel the way you do and I felt the same but by the time DS was about 5, he had a ‘weapons drawer’! He loved nerf guns but had others too and a knife, baton, handcuffs etc. He was never allowed to point guns that actually shot things at people on the basis that you could take someone's eye out.He had laser guns where the whole point was shooting others though. He loved laser quest for a few years and we played laser combat at Center Parcs - great fun! He played Skylanders then fortnight and now other shooter games. He is almost 14.

I never had a conversation as such to explain these are guns and this is what they do. It is something he learned by being in the world and from TV. We talk about news stories, gun crime, gun law etc as they come up,

DS is one of the kindest most empathetic people I know. He is vegan. He has never to my knowledge hit anyone. I have no worries that he will suddenly develop an interest in real guns or turn to crime.

Toy guns and shooting games do not create criminals. There is so much more to it than that, However if you feel like it, remove the playmobil rifles for now, Just know it is only a matter of time before he will be exposed to guns one way or another.