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It would depend how it was introduced to the other parent.
My neighbors are decent people but completely whimpy and have an only child.
I was rough housing \ wrestling with my boys one day when the kid was over and the kid went home distraught thinking I was abusing them or something. (Again, only child in a house where a hug would be considered extreme physical contact). So here comes neighbor lady wanting to know what's up with that... then I get the "we don't believe in violence in our household" and so I told her that if wrestling around with my kids freaks them out then don't come over.
Sorry you've never run across the "passive agressive disapprover" type like the OP is describing. It's quite a treat.
Funny.. I can see that attitude from parents with a single child but once you have more than 1 child.. there is gonna be some violence whether you believe in it or not!
It's a parent's perogative to not have their child play with toy guns. It's not that uncommon and there are other water games. Is she neglecting the child in any way that is detrimental to his well being and health? If not, it is none of your business.
Cowboys and Indians...was our gun game....Now it might be Cow persons and indigenous people. Woman who go nuts when a kid pretends to be shooting are flakes....Guns are so bad..bad guns- bad boy- men make war...bad bad bad--teach our boys not to play with guns and all war in the world will stop.
Recently in Toronto a little girl did a stick drawing in school- the stick man had a gun...she told the teacher that it was her dad and he used a gun to kill the monsters at night....Child protection people snatched up the kid- Police went to the fathers home (he had no criminal record) and searched the place- they even took him into the station and gave him a search including a cavity examination- This is liberality that goes right up your...well you know..
Do you have a link to the Toronto story.. not that I don't believe, I would just like to read it..
For a Canadian dad ...being a rural kid myself...I taught all my kids how to shoot and the basics of gun safety..The kids are grown and have no interest in guns what so ever.
It would depend how it was introduced to the other parent.
My neighbors are decent people but completely whimpy and have an only child.
I was rough housing \ wrestling with my boys one day when the kid was over and the kid went home distraught thinking I was abusing them or something. (Again, only child in a house where a hug would be considered extreme physical contact). So here comes neighbor lady wanting to know what's up with that... then I get the "we don't believe in violence in our household" and so I told her that if wrestling around with my kids freaks them out then don't come over.
Sorry you've never run across the "passive agressive disapprover" type like the OP is describing. It's quite a treat.
Put a giant sign in your yard that says something along the lines of "Hey Bad Guys, my neighbors do not believe in violence, so go ahead and rob them" with a giant arrow pointing to their house.
Glad you cleared that up. It is what your words said.
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but the curiosity about guns and the irresponsibility of parents who refuse to at least teach their kids basic firearm safety is what leads to fatal accidents.
I think the responsible thing for parents to do is when they have kids to remove all guns from the home and to vet their friend's parents and not allow them to be in places where there's a potential for an unsecured firearm to be present.
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The psychotropics on the other hand...those could easily flip the kill switch everyone has in their brain.
Sure, I guess. Personally, if I had a kid on psychotropics, I would want him thinking about guns and gun violence, and to be exposed to firearms, as little as absolutely possible.
Do you have a link to the Toronto story.. not that I don't believe, I would just like to read it..
No- I'm to dumb to do links...It was a big topic for a few days on talk radio...People were enraged...that they would insult the good father by looking up his butt....what the hell were they expecting to find in there? Sorry...I can't come up with the head line...so you could view the story. I swear the story is true ....
is that for ALL parents or just those who have guns in the house?
Nothing wrong with everyone teaching their kids the basics of gun safety.
No matter how much a parent hates guns, unless they abuse their children by sheltering them to the point of social isolation, a kid will inevitably come across a gun. It may be at a friends house whose dad likes to go hunting, or hell they may even find one.
The basics of gun safety could save the life of a child, even if that kids parents are a bunch of paranoid nutjobs who have a paralyzing fear of an inanimate object.
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then I get the "we don't believe in violence in our household" and so I told her that if wrestling around with my kids freaks them out then don't come over. 
