As to whether children (boys or girls) should play with toy guns, I did, and it never did me any harm. What’s important is that children are brought up with an appreciation of the distinction between reality and fantasy. That is ultimately the parents responsibility and no-one else’s.

Blaming such things as toy guns, video games, rock’n'roll, for the ‘corruption’ of children is merely giving people a scapegoat, allowing them to say “Its not my/their failt, it was that gmae that made me/them do it.” In my opinion this strikes at the root of society’s problems, we’ve gradually given up our responsibilities in favour of letting others make our decisions for us and denying that we are to balme for anything that happens to us.