Toy Guns Quotes:

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

- George Will

source: George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

topic: Gun, Boys, Ducks, Rubber Ducks, Toy Guns

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

- Gagan Narang

topic: Kids, Gun, Car, Toy Guns

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.

- Michael D. Barnes

topic: Real, Gun, Water, Toy Guns, Gun Safety

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

- Carolyn McCarthy

topic: Country, Children, Real, Questions Asked, Toy Guns

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

- Yitzhak Rabin

source: Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

topic: Ideas, Long, Able, Toy Guns

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

- Bob Dylan

source: Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home

topic: Dark, Gun, Flesh, Glow In The Dark, Toy Guns

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Children, Gun, Years, Toy Guns

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Children, Character, Reality, Dominant Culture, Absorption

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

- Edna Ferber

topic: War, Gun, Age, Post War, Idiocy

Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Girl, War, Fighting, Toy Guns