Why Aren’t We Talking About (Toy) Gun Control?

Emily Kingsley
5 min readDec 30, 2019

Is it really cute when our littlest people play pretend with our deadliest weapons?

Photo by Piotr Wilk on Unsplash

My three-year-old son spent an hour playing at our neighbors’ house last week. They have three kids, pets and toys just like we do at our house.

When he came home, the kids had given him a toy gun. Our kids swap scooters, balls and frisbees, so at first, it seemed like no big…

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Emily Kingsley

Always polishing the flip side of the coin. Live updates from the middle class. e.kingsleywhalen@gmail.com. She/her.