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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Hang on..this is not something to laugh about is it?If people playing with or using air guns can kill a child then we have to at least discuss the issue of whether there should be some stricter guidlines to their sale and use?
I'm a parent myself and I feel that this deserve a little more discussion and little less frivolity..
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The list of things that "can be dangerous" or "could kill" is endless. Banning or regulting won't stop that; sensible education will do much more to ease it.
I recall two incidents from my school days: in one, one child in a fit of anger lashed out at another with a pencil and stabbed him in the head. Could have been very serious. In another, a boy was trying to remove a bicycle tyre. Most kids used the handles of spoons, but he used a fork and guess what? Yep, got it in the eye, nearly lost it but ended up partially blinded.
Now, do we ban forks and pencils, or just regulate them? Or do we just educate kids a little better, and take the responsibility as adults?