‘Gun Loving’ Society

With toy guns, kids know ‘Shooting’ is ‘just a game’

Fascination of toy-guns on the rise among the kids

Various researches in the West have shown that those children who have too much exposure to violent games and killing scenes and who are preoccupied with guns and gun-play could later grow to become killers and criminals themselves.

It is the parents’ responsibility to keep a close eye on the children having tendency to love such sports activities which can be risky in future by developing violent and beleaguered attitude in them.

The surge in the industrial production of dangerous toys for children like toys guns across the country goes unchecked. On the other hand children are also developing the passion for keeping and playing with guns and other games which are likely to develop fierce behaviour in them.

From the very early age, now a day, boys are given these sorts of things for just playing while in their mind they also take it differently.

A situation of chaos is already prevailing in our country. Every day kids hear and watch on the Televisions that a violent bomb blast took place, dozens of people have been abducted, and massacre of innocent people in Karachi and other places like Kurram Agency are all making the children more likely to be aggressive and can be more problematic in the future.

Munawar Saleem, a father who came to Tench Bata along with his son Naeem 12, who was insisting and forcing his father to buy him a toy pistol shared some views while talking to INFN as he said, “These toys are very dangerous for destroying the child friendly conducive environment. I personally know that in my area, one kid fired another boy with a toy gun which created a lot of mess among the two families. The enmity between the two lasted long.”

A few days back, the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik gave Rs 25000 to a boy for breaking his toy gun into pieces during his visit to Karachi, which he thought would be a gesture to bring peace among the people and communities of Karachi and to the whole Pakistan. But there is not only a single boy in Pakistan who loves theses guns but there count is more than hundreds of thousands. Therefore some practical steps should be taken to bring peace to the country so that children start going away from this dangerous preoccupation with guns.

Media should also behave sensible and should avoid showing live violent scenes on TV screens. Warning like: “Children should not watch this” or “Only for adults” would not suffice. Media owners and policy makers should think twice before telecasting violent scenes on TV as their own children might become a victim of this induced violence some day. Who knows!